Research and teaching assistantships are available for graduate students seeking M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics, Computational Physics, and Space Physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  The stipend for a Teaching Assistantship for the 2009-2010 Academic Year are under 3 degree-holding criterias that a graduate student would have entering into our 1st year program:

Bachelor Degree-holding: $18,012 annually/923.70 biweekly for 20 hours/week
Master Degree-holding: $19,394 annually/994.57 biweekly for 20 hours/week
Ph.D Exam Passed: $20,872 annually/1070.38 biweekly for 20 hours/week

Summer employment is depending whether you are selected as a Teaching Assistant for one of our courses selected for Summer Sessions; hours working is based on enrollment numbers. Other summer employment may be research which is agreed upon faculty/researcher and/or your advisor. 

The teaching assistantship is only for the academic year which usually starts the third Sunday in August and ending the second Saturday in May.    

After your first academic year in our program, you are expected to be supported by a research assistantship (RA) possibly starting in the summer.  It is your responsibility during that academic year to seek a faculty mentor with a research project that interests you.  Research assistantships are usually funded from research grants held by individual faculty members.  If a professor agrees to serve as your committee chair and he/she have the funds, you will be furnished with a research assistantship both during the summer and the academic year.

Research areas include experimental and theoretical studies in computational physics, auroral physics, radio physics, and space plasma physics.  For more information, write to:

e-mail physics@uaf.edu, or call (907) 474-7339. 
University of Alaska Fairbanks is an EO/AA employer and educational institution.