Graduate Teaching Assistants participate under supervision in the instructional activities of the department. Not more than 10 hours per week are spent in classroom contact. Teaching Assistantships do not include support during summer months, but opportunities for teaching assistantships or lectureships for summer courses may be available. Graduate Research Assistants are assigned to individual research projects sponsored either by the University or by outside funding agencies. On supported research contracts and grants, graduate research assistants are judged to be employed half-time and receive a stipend which is normally equivalent to the appropriate stipend level of a graduate teaching assistant plus a supplement to offset the costs of tuition and registration.
Additional remuneration is given for work done during summer months.
University of Rhode Island Graduate Fellowships are supported by the Graduate School and provide a stipend for the academic year together with the remission of tuition. They are intended to enable students to pursue graduate research full time without rendering any services to the University. Graduate Fellows are required to be full time students and may not engage in additional remunerative work without special approval of the Dean of the Graduate School. Courses Offered The Department of Biological Sciences offers a variety of courses at the graduate leve l . Students entering the M.S. program or directly into the Ph.D. program may take up to 12 credits of 400-level courses.