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In my experience it comes from grants that the adviser gets for other research.

• mattkrause 9y ago
  It varies a great deal from department to department, even at the same school. Many biomedical programs start with "rotations", where students do a few brief internships (a few months each) in different labs before choosing an advisor. This is covered by an institutional training grant like the NIH's T32 (https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/training-grants/T32 https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/training-grants/T3...). Once they choose an advisor, funding comes from a variety of sources: the advisor's research grants (e.g., R01s), fellowships directly to the grad student, and even money from the university in exchange for "service" like TAing. My impression is that training grants are rarer in the physical sciences, but there are more TAships.