University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ph.D. in Freshwater Sciences - Great Lakes Biogeochemistry & Aquatic Toxicology - School of Freshwater Sciences

The nation's only standalone graduate school of freshwater sciences, utilizing the R/V Neeskay research vessel on Lake Michigan to study toxic cyanobacteria blooms, microplastic transport, quagga mussel ecosystem disruptions, and urban stormwater hydrology.

Award / Stipend

Full graduate research assistantships $30,000/year plus complete tuition waiver

Application Deadline

January 15, 2027

Master of Architecture (M.Arch) - Urban Architecture & Ecological Urbanism - SARUP

NAAB-accredited professional architecture degree at Wisconsin's only architecture school, teaching digital design fabrication, mass timber construction, waterfront resilience, and urban ecological design.

Award / Stipend

SARUP Graduate Design Fellowships up to $15,000/year plus studio assistantships

Application Deadline

January 15, 2027

Ph.D. in Physics - Gravitational Wave Astronomy & Cryo-EM Biophysics

Elite physics doctorate contributing to the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that made the Nobel Prize-winning first detection of gravitational waves, as well as single-particle cryo-electron microscopy of viral proteins.

Award / Stipend

Full departmental teaching/research assistantships $31,500/year plus tuition remission

Application Deadline

January 15, 2027

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - Advanced Manufacturing & Connected Systems - CSI

Conducted in partnership with Rockwell Automation at the Connected Systems Institute, focusing on industrial IoT digital twins, tribology and wear-resistant coatings, microfluidics, and battery materials.

Award / Stipend

Connected Systems Institute Industry Fellowships $30,000/year plus tuition waiver

Application Deadline

February 1, 2027

Ph.D. in Biomedical and Health Informatics - Clinical Data Mining & EHR Systems

Interdisciplinary doctorate addressing machine learning algorithms for medical record diagnosis, mobile health monitoring algorithms, health disparity informatics, and bioinformatics genomics.

Award / Stipend

Graduate Research Assistantships $28,000/year plus full tuition remission

Application Deadline

February 1, 2027

Master of Fine Arts in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres - Peck School of the Arts

World-renowned avant-garde and experimental film program, providing advanced 16mm celluloid film processing, digital cinematography, sound installation art, and international film festival curation.

Award / Stipend

Full graduate teaching assistantships including tuition waiver and annual living stipend

Application Deadline

January 15, 2027

Dr. Patrick Brady

Distinguished Professor of Physics
Department of Physics & Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Dr. Brady is former spokesperson for the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration, leading research on gravitational wave data analysis from binary black hol...

Dr. Sandra McLellan

Professor of Freshwater Sciences
School of Freshwater Sciences

Dr. McLellan investigates environmental microbiology of urban waterways, utilizing bacterial metagenomics to track sewage contamination and antibiotic resistanc...

Dr. Abbas Ourmazd

Distinguished Professor of Physics
Department of Physics

Dr. Ourmazd develops pioneering manifold-embedding machine learning algorithms to reconstruct 3D dynamic molecular movies of biological macromolecules from X-ra...