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Funding Opportunities

Information on fellowships, scholarships, awards, and more for Penn State Entomology graduate students.

Penn State Entomology graduate students funding opportunities

Penn State Entomology graduate students funding opportunities

College of Ag Sciences Graduate Student Funding Information

A listing of Funding, grants and internships that are available to College of Ag Sciences graduate students

Competitive Grants Program

The College of Agricultural Sciences Graduate Student Competitive Grant Program is sponsored by the College of Agricultural Science’s Office for Research and Graduate Education. This program is a unique opportunity available to graduate students advised by College of Agricultural Sciences (CAS) faculty. The program serves as professional development for all CAS graduate students by providing funds to support master or doctoral research. It is anticipated that up to $40,000 will be awarded during this funding cycle.

Departmental Awards

Several awards are available to graduate students in our program. Recipients of these awards are selected by the department's Awards Committee. Awards are presented from available funds to qualifying graduate students.

Employment and other financial opportunities

Financial opportunities for graduate students also include hourly employment, assistantships, fellowships, and loans.

National Funding Opportunities

Incoming and continuing students are encouraged to consider applying for fellowships, grants, or awards.

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    • Uncovering How a Kind of Bacteria Can Be Used to Prevent the Spread of Deadly Human Diseases
    • Can Co-feeding of Two Tick Species on White-tailed Deer Reduce Lyme Disease?
    • The Hidden Lives of Solitary Bees: Uncovering Nature's Lesser-Known Pollinators
    • Oh My Gourd! Nina Devine's Research on Squashing Pests and Drought
    • Mouse Madness: Ticks Tussle for Liquid Lunch
    • Pollination: What's All the Buzz?
    • The Hidden Revolt: How Bumble Bee Workers Challenge Their Queen
    • Solving the puzzle of how tomatoes defend themselves against caterpillars
    • Timing is Important: To Spray or not to Spray
    • How aphid anxiety could squash our own stress
    • Battling Bed Bugs in Poultry Farms: A Breakthrough Approach to Cost-Effective Management
    • Fighting nature with nature; Using parasitoid wasps to control pests in vineyards
    • Saving the mushroom capital of the world: Biocontrol for mushroom pests
    • Incorporating Wild Tomato Genes in Cultivated Tomato; Tackling the Fall Armyworm Challenge
    • Cover crops can help protect corn from insect pests
    • Tick Talk: Monitoring the Gulf Coast Tick in Pennsylvania
    • Ants in Pennsylvania Farms - Antastic or Antagonists?
    • A Non-Toxic Relationship—The Colorado Potato Beetle and Its Detoxification Mechanism
    • Mushroom Mystery: Getting to the Root of It
    • Manipulating Cover Crop Soil to Study Tritrophic Interactions
    • All in the Family: Within-Population Transmission of Dengue Virus in Mosquito Communities
    • From Smartphone to Plow: Using AI to Improve Crop Production
    • NO3- Time to Die
    • Love on The Golf Course
    • Harnessing the hunger of predatory organisms in a reduced tillage system
    • Bringing Sight to the World
    • Buzzing with Concern: Uncovering the Secret Stressor of Bumble Bees
    • Tomato Drought will Impact Insect Communities Without a Doubt
    • How does the Fall Armyworm disarm plant defenses?
    • New Buzz on Epidemics: Landscapes Affect the Way Bumble Bee Diseases Beehave
    • Pest from the West – An Outlaw in the Potato Fields
    • How I met your mother – A bumble bee perspective
    • Beyond “if you see it, squash it”
    • Horror in the Tomato Field
    • Picky Pollinators
    • Death by a Thousand Guts
    • Lyme disease: Combating tick-borne disease with controlled fire
    • A Spiderman in Pennsylvania
    • Penn State’s very own “Charles de gall”
    • Turning Up the Heat on Mosquitoes
    • The War on (Bed) Bugs
    • The Race to Save the Bees
    • Chemical Words
    • Cherry they going? The decline in black cherry trees and the search for their pollinators
    • Biocontrol for Poultry House Pests: The Fungi Within
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