Fellowship and RA - possible?

cosmicfish
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:00:31 +0000

Generally yes, but it depends on the fellowship and the department. For example, the NSF permits fellowship recipients to do a reasonable amount of work (paid or not) that contributes to your actual education, but would I suspect object if you were working so much that it was interfering with said education. Any individual or fellowship may prohibit double-dipping, as many such institutions would prefer to award more people than simply give more money to fewer people.

Also, you would almost certainly be hired as an hourly assistant rather than receive a fixed wage - traditional RA position costs are dominated by the tuition waiver, and if you do not need it then it makes more sense to just pay you as an hourly employee.