UR - Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships Teaching Fellowships and Research Assistantships are both available through the Department. Entering students who qualify for support are usually assigned teaching duties. Those with specific experience or capabilities, however, may be awarded a Research Assistantship. The Department requires every full-time student to be engaged in teaching or research each year as part of the training necessary to meet the requirements for an advanced degree. Duties of Teaching Fellows include supervision of undergraduate laboratory sessions or recitation sections and grading of laboratory reports or grading homework problems and course examinations.
Emphasis is placed on improving the teaching skills of all fellows.
Seminars on teaching are held throughout the year and the instructors have the opportunity to watch the performance on tape so as to improve their presentation skills. Feedback from the students in the class is carefully evaluated. Teaching Fellows are also provided with a full tuition scholarship in addition to the stipend. A number of graduate fellowships are made available to selected entering graduate students in addition to a Teaching Fellowship or Research Assistantship. Fellowships are provided throughout the University to the very best graduate student candidates.