Research & Teaching Fellowships

Fellowships are for the recruitment of new graduate students holding a teaching or research assistantship in one of the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s degree-granting graduate programs. Fellowships provide the following:

TAs: Up to $7,500 total for two semesters toward stipend
RAs: Up to $11,000 total for two semesters toward stipend, tuition and student health insurance
RA/TA: Up to $9,500 total for two semesters toward stipend, tuition and student health insurance  

Students who are being recruited to a graduate program must be nominated by their director of graduate studies. All master's and Ph.D. students in the college are eligible to apply. Special consideration will be given to nominees who currently or previously held membership as an undergraduate member of a MANRRS chapter at UK or other post-secondary institution, or have held Independent Membership in MANRRS. For more information about national MANRRS, see manrrs.org.

Awardees may be nominated for a second year of funding. Please note that applications for a second year of funding do not require any supporting documentation. The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment does not provide tuition scholarships for summer sessions.