What is a PA? RA? Hourly Worker?
The committee strongly encourages you to consider ways in which a graduate student assistant might contribute to your project. Our resources go further when they fund both a graduate student and support faculty research. A project assistant (PA), the most common award, can be requested to help on aspects of the project that require graduate-level training. Project Assistants are usually 33.3% or 50% appointments, for one semester or two. Summer assistantships are also possible. A research assistant (RA) is expected to do research for the project that also feeds directly into his or her dissertation work and is much more common to the biological and physical sciences. Note that PA and RA awards cover the currently required tuition remission. An hourly worker need not be a graduate student. Be sure to indicate clearly on the application how the student will contribute to the project.
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