Doctoral Fellowships and other assistantships available for entering Ph.D. students in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. We will be awarding University of Louisiana Fellowships and Board of Regents Fellowships to Ph.D. students entering Fall 2011. UL Fellows are funded for 3-4 years and have limited teaching responsibilities, while BoR Fellows are funded for 4 years at and have no formal teaching duties. Fellows receive a tuition waivers and stipends are up to $27,000 per year. Eligibility requirements include US citizenship (or permanent residency) or degree from a US institution. We will also have teaching and research assistantships available for incoming Ph.D. students. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to directly contact prospective advisors. My lab focuses on vertebrate conservation genetics and ecology (for more information go to http://ulceet.com/site81.php). Contact information and research interests of other faculty members can be found at our departmental web site (http://biology.louisiana.edu/). Our graduate program brochure is also posted at our Ecology Centers site (http://ulceet.com/site90.php). The Department of Biology has approximately 70 graduate students and 25 graduate faculty members conducting research on a wide variety of topics.
