Having passed this test prior to coming to USU, gives international students a definitive advantage. Duties consist of paper grading and tutoring. Members of our faculty are actively engaged in research and some of them welcome assistance from graduate students in their work. D students can sometimes be appointed as RA's while they work on their dissertations. These awards vary in size.
Duties normally consist of supervised research work under the direction of a faculty member.
These awards are given to a few beginning students who have extraordinary potiential in their program of study. There are no teaching duties. Summer Support Summer support is included in the stipend amount for Ph. Duties during the summer for those students would normally be to teach an introductory level mathematics or statistics summer course. Deserving students close to finishing their thesis can get this summer support in form of a RA, involving no teaching duties.