Graduate students can apply for many sources of intramural or extramural funding, or both, to support their expenses while in graduate school. Below, please find the details of the most-common forms of financial support apart from those provided by your mentor.
Graduate Student Intramural Funding
Publication Grants
To support graduate education, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies will provide $600 to eligible PhD and Masters students, to help offset the cost of publishing their research. Please use this form to apply for a publication grant.
Travel Grants
To support graduate education, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies will provide $600 to eligible PhD and Masters students, to help offset the cost of traveling to conferences to present their research. Please use this form to apply for a travel grant.
Graduate Assistantships (GAs)
A graduate assistantship is a form of employment, not a scholarship or an award. GAs may hold either teaching (TA) or research (RA) responsibilities, with an expectation to work 20 hours/week. GAs cover student stipends and tuition expenses.
Block-grant Teaching Assistantship
CVM offers competitive four-year employment contract for highly qualified PhD students. Block grants cover an annual stipend of $35,000 per year x 4 years plus tuition and student fees. Recipients are appointed as graduate assistants with teaching assistant task responsibilities in the DVM program and/or graduate program. Please explore here for more details on Block Grant Awards, including how to apply.
Research Assistantship
Research Assistantships can be offered by PIs with external research funding.
UF Funding Opportunities
UF maintains many sources of scholarly funding for graduate students. We could not possibly do them all justice on this page, nor could we keep up with their details, if we tried! Please visit the UF graduate school’s Funding page for up-to-date information. Late-term PhD students may find the Supplemental Retention Scholarship of particular interest.
Training Grants
The University of Florida collaborates with the National Institutes of Health to provide robust research training awards through training grants (T32s, T90s, etc.). Generally speaking, these awards support graduate students and/or postdoctoral trainees for about 2 years of training. Below, please find the current training grants which may be relevant for CVM students.
1T32TR005120-01
CTSA Predoctoral T32 at the University of Florida: CTS Team Training
The program uses a team-science approach and provides mentoring and didactic training for predoctoral students performing clinical and/or translational research in health-related fields
5T32CA257923-05
Team-based Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Training Program
Offering a unique training opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral trainees to develop interdisciplinary skills in cancer research and experience with transdisciplinary approaches
Non-Graduate-Student Intramural Research Funding Programs:
For undergraduate students
University Scholars Program
This program is designed for undergraduate students interested in biomedical research careers. Students are paired with faculty investigators.
for dvm students
The Linda F. Hayward Florida Veterinary Scholars Program
This program is designed for 1st and 2nd year DVM students to engage in hypothesis-driven research alongside faculty investigators.
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