| Prizes and Grants
Honorific fellowships:
The Graduate school offers via annual competition (by nomination only)
a limited number of Honorific fellowships to graduate students in their last year of graduate school. The fellowships consist of full tuition ($32,450) and a (taxable) stipend of $22,000 for the ten-month academic year.
Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in Computational Physics: (by nomination only)
This award, established in May 1985 by the many friends of Ray Grimm and Cray Research, Inc.,
makes available $5,000 for an advanced student (or $2,500 each if shared between two students)
who has demonstrated significant achievement in computational physics. This prize is awarded via annual competition by nomination only.
CGS/UMI (University Microfilms International) Distinguished Dissertation Awards:
This award carries an honorarium of $1,000 and travel expenses to the presentation ceremony
http://www.cgsnet.org/ProgramsServices/currentyearawards.htm.
Teaching prizes:
The Graduate School offers teaching awards of $1000 each to graduate students who have distinguished themselves as TA's.
The physics department Departmental offers teaching awards of $500 each.
AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) offers teaching award consisting of a complementary membership.
Travel grants:
Departmental travel grant-Compton grants-- $500
AGPA Summer Travel fellowship Program
Graduate Dean's travel grant
Students need to apply for these grants. For the departmental grants, they should contact the DGS. For the university grants, information can be found on
http://gso.princeton.edu/financial/e55/travel_grants.html
Symposia grants:
The Graduate School annually solicits proposals from graduate students for funding to support scholarly symposia, seminar series and workshops.
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