Department of Environmental Science and Policy                     National Zoological Park
George Mason University                                                           Smithsonian Institution

Doctoral Fellowships in Conservation Science

• This Fellowship Program will provide awardees with a 4-year package of support
• Awardees will receive $18,000 in stipend and fellowship support each year
• Tuition waiver for the hours noted below which should be sufficient to complete the Ph.D. Degree
  
• Years 1 and 2
  
• enroll in 9 credit hours of classes per semester
• teach 2 introductory science lab sections per semester
• inititate research activities under a National Zoological Park scientist (summers will be a time of concentrated research activity)
  
• Years 3 and 4
• enroll in 3 credit hours of dissertation per semester
• immersion in dissertation research under the direction of a National Zoological Park scientist