Training Grant Appointments

Most Neuroscience graduate students are funded on training grants during the first three years of the Ph.D. program.  After the third year of study, the research mentor assumes responsibility for student support.

Enrollment in MCB 293: Ethics in Research is mandatory for all NIH trainees in the first year of study. This requirement may be waived for those students who have taken, and can document, Ethics at another institution.

The NIH requires yearly reports on each trainee. Students will be contacted for research updates and publications during the course of the Ph.D. program and afterward.  

Trainees must sign a Statement of Appointment form each June for the upcoming fiscal year, (FY = July 1-June 30). At the end of the third year, trainees sign a Termination Form detailing their coursework, research, publications, and Qualifying Examination date.
NIH Training Grants include a $300 travel grant for each trainee.  During the first year of study these funds are applied to the costs of the annual Neuroscience retreat.  For additional information regarding travel grants, see: Travel Grants.

Trainees must acknowledge the NIH in their CVs or Biographies and all publications. See sample formats below:

Honors and Awards [in CV / Biographical Sketch]

2001-2004 National Institutes of Health Pre-doctoral Fellowship.

Acknowledgements [in Publications]

This research was funded in part by a National Institutes of Health NRSA Trainee appointment on grant number T32 (from Statement of Appointment form).