Why did I get rejected? Are there anyone like me?

QuantMech
Mon, 14 May 2012 22:14:27 +0000

I am pretty certain that faculty in our Department have non-citizen, non-permanent residents on their R01’s; I think this is/was also true for NIH Program Project grants with multiple PI’s. Training grants are in a different category. I suspect that IGERT awards might have citizenship restrictions.

Out here in the hinterlands, students are often supported as teaching assistants in the first year or two, rather than on departmental training grants to start. I’d guess that MIT has grad TAs (although I know that MIT also has some undergrad course assistants as well)–so TA-ships might cover foreign students with reasonable English skills, until the faculty mentor’s grant kicks in with a research assistantship.