Financial Assistance

Graduate assistantship and fellowship support is available to full-time students on a competitive basis. Students awarded financial support are eligible for stipends and remission of tuition fees. Starting Fall 2008, students receive a stipend of approximately $22,000 per 12 month period. Funding comes from a combination of program fellowship support, graduate teaching assistantships, and grant support from your faculty advisor. A student with a financial assistance must register as a full-time student each quarter (at least 12 credit hours of Environmental Science and related courses).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Internships

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's water research division in Cincinnati frequently hosts student interns whose research interests overlap those of the division's objectives. WSU PhD students and PhD program faculty who are interested in exploring internship opportunities in collaboration with the EPA in Cincinnati should contact Dr. Steve Higgins at 775-2479 or steven.higgins@wright.edu.

The Yellow Springs Instruments (YSI) Environmental Ph.D. Fellowship

Yellow Springs Instuments, a leading company in the manufacture of environmental monitoring equipment, has endowed a fellowship that will be awarded to students who have demonstrated exemplary performance in the Environmental Sciences PhD program. Awards will be made once per year. For more information visit the Yellow Springs Instuments Web site at www.ysi.com.

YSI Fellowship Awards:

Thomas Kannanayakal, 2005-2006

Photo of check from YSI Foundation presented to the WSU Foundation

Dean Michele Wheatly, College of Science and Mathematics, Mary Alice Waggoner, Dr. Allen Burton, Director of the Institute for Environmental Quality, Rosalie Catalano, WSU Vice-President Perry Moore, and Susan Miller with the check from YSI Foundation (Yellow Springs Instruments) presented to the WSU Foundation at the Symposium on Ecosystem Stressors, May 15, 2003.