FUNDING
There is no distinction made between National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported
Fellows and those funded by other mechanisms. All students admitted to the
SBU MSTP
are
considered
MSTP Fellows.
MSTP Fellows receive a complete waiver of tuition and health
insurance during their entire stay at Stony
Brook. Fellows also receive a stipend designed to be competitive nationally
and adjusted for the cost of living on Long Island. The stipend for
year (2008-2009 is $26,000. During the graduate phase of the MSTP, students
can optionally apply for external fellowships (e.g. from NIH or the
U.S. Army Breast cancer program). If successful, such fellowships can
be used to increase their stipend level by 10% (e.g. to $28,500 in 2008-2009).
We
also support costs of traveling to scientific and career development
meetings and a variety of enrichment opportunities.
In addition to the standard MSTP support, there are also local
support to qualified underrepresented candidates. Please see the below links.
SUNY
AGEP Program
W.
Burghardt Turner Fellowship
SUNY Opens Minority-Only Scholarships to Whites
The board of trustees of the State University of New York system
has voted to open up to low-income whites two scholarship programs
that had been reserved for minority students. This past year the
$6.2 million Graduate Fellowship program provided financial aid
to about 500 minority students at 24 SUNY campuses. The Empire
State Minority Honors Scholarships benefited 898 students. Since
1987 the two scholarship programs have been exclusively for black,
Hispanic, and American Indian students.
The action
by the SUNY trustees came after the university, along with 200
other institutions of higher education, received a letter
from the right-wing Center for Equal Opportunity. The letter strongly
hinted that legal action or the filing of a complaint with the
Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights would be made
if the programs remained exclusively for minority students.
SOM Financial Aid Info.
Graduate School Financial Aid Info.
