Funding Opportunities
Qualified students typically receive competitive teaching or research assistantships. These assistantships provide non-resident and resident tuition waivers, paid health insurance, and stipends to help cover living expenses.
Funding opportunities include, but are not limited to, those announced below.
- M.S. and Ph.D. Graduate Assistantships available to research genetics of disesase resistance focused on wheat improvement (posted 10/09)
- Graduate Assistantship Available (Ph.D.) with focus on Geography of Soil Moisture Dynamics on the Palouse via the Integration of Proximal Sensing (updated 10/09)
- M.S. Grad uate Assistantship in Turfgrasss Science (posted 10/09)
- M.S. Graduate Assistantships Available with Focus on QTL Identification in Wheat (posted 10/09)
- Ph.D. Graduate Assistantship Available with Focus on Organic Wheat Quality (posted 10/09)
Ph.D. Graduate Fellowships: The Nitrogen Systems: Polciy-oriented Integrated Reearch and Education (NSPIRE) program offers integrated graduate education research training grants (IGERT), funded by the National Science Foundation. Training provides interdisciplinary research foused on nitrogen cycle processes in the environment intgrated with experiential learning of public policy. Your contact in the Department of Crop and Soil Science is Dr. Bill Pan, wlpan@wsu.edu (posted 10/09)- PhD Graduate Assistantship Available with Focus on Field-Scale Applications of Precision Agricultural Technology (posted 9/09)
- PhD Graduate Assistantship Available with Focus on Cultivation and Analysis of Neutraceutical Plants (posted 9/09)
- Graduate Resarch Assistantship (Ph.D.) related to the effects of food processing and genetics on soluble and insouble fiber constituents of wheat products made from white and whole-what flour... (posted 8/09)
Additionally, there are scholarships available from the department and the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.
Contact Information
Debra Marsh, Academic Coordinator
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
Washington State University
205 Johnson Hall
PO Box 646420
Pullman, WA 99164-6420
Email: marshdj@wsu.edu
Phone: 509-335-2615
Fax: 509-335-8674
NSPIRE IGERT Graduate Fellowship Program
WSU will receive $6 million over five years from NSF’s flagship Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) interdisciplinary program to fund approximately 60 new doctoral students across three program areas.
Of particular interest is the NSPIRE (Nitrogen Systems: Policy-oriented Integrated Research and Education) IGERT program at Washington State University. The Department of Crop and Soil Sciences is an active participant in the program directed by the interdisciplinary Center for Environmental Research and Education Outreach (CEREO) at Washington State University.
The NSPIRE IGERT program is a multidisciplinary student doctoral training program designed to create a new generation of scientists with broad and rigorous training in nitrogen cycling who seamlessly integrate nitrogen cycle science for effective communication with public policy makers. Nitrogen-cycle management is listed as one of the most critical 21st century “grand challenges” by the National Academy of Engineering.
Fellowship recipients will receive full graduate student support including two years of NSPIRE support with a $30,000/year stipend. Other benefits include unique training in policy studies, participating in a semester-long studio course that will immerse them in policy and communication issues. Students also will do in internships in policy organizations, such as the International Nitrogen Initiative or the World Meteorological Organization.
In 2009, two Soil Science graduate students have received NSPIRE IGERT fellowships, while a number of CSS faculty are lecturing for the program with several more CSS students taking advantage of the course work..
For additional details, or application information, please visit http://igert.nspire.wsu.edu.
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