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Frequently Asked Questions
Contact Us
Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
1530 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison WI 53706
Telephone 608-263-4580 - E-mail
Fax 608-262-5245
Contribution to the METC program
Call (608-263-4580) or E-mail us. If you want to provide a research or career informational presentation in our graduate seminar or if you want to network with faculty, contact us.
If your time is constrained but you still want to open new doors for toxicology graduate students, you may contribute by check or credit card. Checks should be made payable to UW Foundation Fund #12660040 (this number must be on the check) and mailed to Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center, Care of Marci Heim, UW Foundation, 1848 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706. Credit card contributions can be made online at http://www.uwfound.wisc.edu/index.html
Contributions of time or money also are welcome for our 9-week summer research program for undergraduate Hispanic, African American and Native American students.
Your contributions are appreciated!
International Students
E-mail or Write to: Int'l Student Information
217 Armory and Gymnasium
716 Langdon St.
Madison WI 53706-1400
Telephone 608-2621-2044
Fax 608-262-2838
Hearing-impaired TTY 608-263-2400.
How do Molecular and Environmental Toxicology students pay for graduate training?
Financial aid is available to all METC students in the form of research assistantships, traineeships, and fellowships. In 2009-2010, the METC recommends to the faculty that research assistants receive a stipend of at least $22,500 for 12 months and pay no tuition. First semester Ph.D. students rotate into three different laboratories as research assistants, choosing a final laboratory and mentor at the end of rotations (normally by December 1).
Ph.D. students with health-related research interests are eligible for several training grants on campus including: Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences); the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, and the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center; the Chemistry-Biology Interface; and Cellular and Molecular Parasitology, and Biotechnology programs. Outstanding students are nominated for University traineeships and encouraged to compete for national awards.
It is assumed that all applicants will need financial aid. There is no separate application for most kinds of financial aid (for exceptions, see below). You should be aware that all traineeships and most fellowships and research assistantships are awarded to students registered for the Ph.D. degree. Students registered for the M.S. degree may well have to provide their own support for some period of their training, particularly the first year. The types of financial aid available to graduate students in Molecular and Environmental Toxicology are as follows:
I. FellowshipsA. Awarded through campus-wide competition; no additional application form is required.1. Advanced Opportunity FellowshipsQualified minority and economically disadvantaged non-minority applicants may be nominated by METC for this award. Deadline for receipt of all application materials is December 15, although later applications will be considered if funds are still available. If you believe you might qualify for this award, please call it to our attention when submitting your application. B. Extramural FellowshipsAwarded by agencies outside the UW-Madison. Deadlines, eligibility and procedures vary. We encourage applicants to explore these possibilities and apply for any appropriate awards. Please check with your own institution's financial aids or fellowships office or the UW-Madison Graduate School Office of Fellowships at http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/education/funding/univfellowships.html for information. Some agencies that make awards follow.
1. Predoctoral FellowshipsNational Science Foundation (November deadline); Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences administered by the National Research Council and open to foreign nationals (November deadline).
2. Predoctoral Fellowships for MinoritiesNational Science Foundation; Ford Foundation; the Committee for Institutional Cooperation.
II. Research AssistantshipsThese are provided by individual professors from their research funds to support students working on appropriate projects in their laboratories. The majority of students in the Molecular and Environmental Toxicology program are supported by their mentor's research funding. If you are admitted to the program, your file will be made available to professors who are seeking graduate students. However, once you are admitted you should take the initiative in finding a research advisor by contacting individual professors whose work interests you, using the METC directory as a guide.
III. RotationsFunds provided by the Graduate School and METC are available to allow incoming Ph.D. students one semester of rotations. New students rotate through three labs, each for one month, during the Fall semester before the student decides on an advisor. Rotations are required of all incoming Ph.D. students.
The stipend for a rotator research assistantship for 2009-10 is $22,500 (12-month rate) plus remission of all tuition. The student pays segregated fees, which for 2008-2009 were $445 per semester. Tuition rates for full-time graduate students for Fall semester 2008-09 are $5,011 for Wisconsin residents and $12,472 for non-residents. Thus, the tuition remission for research assistants provides a considerable cost savings. Research assistants are eligible for health insurance at little or no cost.
IV. TraineeshipsA. NIEHS Training Grant METC has a training grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This grant provides support for the best-qualified students who are preparing themselves for research or teaching careers in a health-related field. This grant has been renewed through June 30, 2013. Incoming students may become eligible to compete for these training grant positions early in their graduate school careers in the program. Students accepting traineeships will be expected to fulfill the core curriculum requirements for the training grant. Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are registered for the Ph.D. degree and have full academic standing are eligible to compete for these traineeships. B. Other Training Grants Some of our students are eligible for support from other training grants on campus at some time after entry into the Ph.D. program. Examples are Molecular and Environmental Toxicology graduate students placed with professors at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research (Department of Oncology), the Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center (Department of Human Oncology), the Chemistry-Biology Interface training grant, or the Cellular and Molecular Parasitology training grant. Other students may be eligible for support from the Biotechnology training grant. In each case, the student must meet the eligibility and participation requirements of the training grant to which they are applying.
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Research Facility Availablity
The program's collaboration with faculty throughout campus makes available several libraries, facilities, centers, and laboratories which include the Genetics and Biotechnology Center National Magnetic Resonance Facility, Mass Spectrometry/Bioanalytical Facility, Molecular Graphics and Biocomputing Facility, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Flow Cytometry Facility, Molecular Interaction Facility, Genome Center Sequencing Facility, Gene Expression Center, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Biological Imaging, Transgenic Animal Facility, Synchrotron Radiation Center, Scanning Electron Microscope Laboratory, Veterinary Radioimmunoassay Laboratory, peptide synthesis and DNA sequencing and synthesis facilities, Biotron, Lab of Developmental Biology, UW Medical School Electron Microscope Facility, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, UW Hospital, and the Clinical Sciences Center.
 What’s it like at UW-Madison?
The University is on the shore of Madison’s Lake Mendota. Students share in the vitality of our top-rated capital city known for an abundance of cultural activities. The University attracts scholars from all over the world. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was founded in 1849, one year after Wisconsin became a state. Madison is the capital. Today the city has a population of 208,054. The University has an enrollment of about 28,600 undergraduate and 10,500 graduate, law and medical students, with about 2,060 faculty members. The 933-acre campus stretches along the shore of Lake Mendota. The city and the university offer diverse cultural and recreational opportunities. There is an extensive city bus network and an excellent public school system. Several day care facilities are available in the campus area.
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