What special sources of funding and financial support are available?
Every year the URI Graduate School awards Minority Fellowships to qualified students, and our students are often recipients of these awards. Several regular sources of support are also relevant: Departmental graduate teaching assistantships, grant-funded Research Assistantships, Graduate Assistantships in other University programs (including the Multicultural Center, Disabilities Services, and Talent Development), and community agency placements. The federal agency NIH has funded students and faculty on existing research projects at the Cancer Prevention Research Center using funding from Research Support for Underrepresented Minorities. There are state and federal funded opportunities through the partnership of the Psychology Consultation Center and Rhode Island Department of Correction that give students significant exposure to a culturally and ethnically diverse clinically challenging population in a correctional setting. Research assistantships often engage with topics that incorpo
