Join Us!

The Chisholm Lab welcomes post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and UROP students from a variety of disciplines. Prospective post-docs and graduate students should contact Professor Chisholm directly (chisholm at mit.edu). Graduate students in the lab have been enrolled in a variety of different curricular programs, including:


For general information about applying to graduate school at MIT refer to http://web.mit.edu/admissions/graduate/. MIT undergraduate students interested in a research project should contact Professor Chisholm or Allison Coe (a_coe at mit.edu) for more information, and visit MIT's UROP site.

Below is a list of fellowships that are available for graduate studies.   These fellowships can be awarded prior to entry into a PhD program, and usually pay part of the total cost of tuition and stipend for a fixed period of time. The balance of the support is picked up by the Lab's research grants. For helpful advice on applying for graduate fellowships, please visit this site.
 
NSF Graduate Fellowships
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (DOD)
NASA Graduate Fellowships
EPA STAR Fellowship
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Office of Naval Research
American Association of University Women
Hertz Foundation
Ford Foundation (for minorities, dissertation fellowship and predoctoral fellowship available)
NSF Minority Graduate Fellowships
Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
American Meteorolgical Society Graduate Fellowships
Robert D. Watkins Graduate Fellowship

Some postdoctoral funding opportunities:
Agouron Institute Fellowships
NSF - Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biology
NSF -Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological Informatics
NSF - Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
The National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Program (through NIH)
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships for Scientists from NATO Partner Countries
Life Sciences Research Foundation
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
NIH K Awards
Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship
The Rockefeller University Center for studies in Physics and Biology

Please do your own search on the web, as there are a number of well-hidden opportunities out there for the enterprising student.