List of Available Fellowships

Current Fellowship Opportunities

Graduate students receive support from a number of sources, including Teaching Assistantships (funded by the campus), Research Assistantships (or "GSRs," funded by individual faculty members), Work-Study, and fellowships. Many of these forms of funding come with work requirements (teaching, working in a lab, etc.), but fellowships typically have no such requirements.

New applicants are strongly urged to apply for campuswide fellowships. These are highly competitive, but we often have one or two incoming students who win such support. A few of these, such as the Dissertation Year Fellowship, are available for continuing students as well. More information about campus internal fellowships and external fellowships are available from Graduate Studies. Note that diversity includes women in physics, students who are the first in their families to attend graduate school, and other categories besides racial minorities. Also, the typical entering graduate student can make a fair case for financial need: he or she often has zero outside income, zero savings, and possibly student loans from college!

Students are encouraged to apply for national fellowships, including NSF fellowships, NASA fellowships, Department of Energy, Computational Science Fellowships, and others. A number of Davis graduate students do research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, supported by SEGRF Fellowships. The Davis Physics Department awards at least five full graduate fellowships per year through a GAANN grant from the Department of Education.

The department frequently receives notices of other funding opportunities for graduate students. These are announced in our electronic newsletter, the Dispatch, and will also be listed here. Check regularly -- these change from week to week.