Federal Research Updates: Please see Federal Research Updates 2025 for the latest updates on executive orders and policies impacting federally funded research.
Student Assistantships and Fellowships
The George Washington University (GW) has three categories of graduate student appointments that can be funded by sponsored projects. Graduate students can either be a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Graduate Research Fellow (GRF) or Graduate Fellow (GF), but cannot have more than one of these statuses on the same project. The Graduate tuition fees vary by program and location for each GW school.
GW Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships (OGSAF) provides policy guidance on roles and funding policies on graduate students that can support sponsored projects. Questions regarding the policy should be directed to OGSAF via email gradfell
gwu [dot] edu (gradfell[at]gwu[dot]edu).
Summer Appointments
Please reference the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Adding Students to Sponsored Research Projects (PDF) if the graduate student appointment is being continued during the summer months.
Sponsor Guidelines
Please note that it is the principal investigator’s (PIs) responsibility to review sponsor guidelines to ensure that GRA, GRF or GF are allowable expenditures. Review the Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships's School and Department Funding page when developing your proposal.
Resources
- Taxable & Non-Taxable Payments to Students - This website includes the GW Stipend and Tuition Payments to Students and their Taxability policy and tax guidance for US and International Students.
- “How To” instructions for processing GRA salary and tuition awards or GRF/GF tuition awards and/or stipend payments.
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Adding Students to Sponsored Research Projects (PDF)
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