FACES OF GIAR

More than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students have received over $13 million in research funding from Sigma Xi’s Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program since 1922. For many of these students, a GIAR award is the first grant that they receive for their research, boosting their confidence and their curriculum vitae.

Read stories below from recipients about how the grants transformed their research experiences, what they were able to achieve, and where they are now.

Anna Knochel
Research discipline: Climate Science
Year awarded: Fall 2017
Education level at time of grant: Undergraduate student
Study title: Initial Quantification of Viruses Associated with Genetically Distinct Symbiodinium clades During Exposure to Thermal Stress: A Proposal for Research

Carter Clinton
Research discipline:   Anthropology
Year awarded:   Spring 2017
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title:   Creation of a Genomic Database from New York African Burial Ground Soil Samples

Simona Augyte
Research discipline:   Physiology/Functional Morphology
Grant awarded:   Spring 2015
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title:   The Taxonomic Resolution of the Rare and endemic kelp, Saccharina latissima forma angustissima (Laminariales) from the Gulf of Maine

Roha Kaipa
Research discipline:   Psychology
Grant awarded:   Spring 2015
Education level at time of grant:   PhD candidate
Study title:   Inhibitory Control in Bilingual Children: Electrophysiological Correlates of Auditory Stroop Effect

Brendan Talwar
Research discipline:   Conservation Biology
Grant awarded:   Spring 2015
Education level at time of grant:   Master's student
Study title:   Comparative Stress Physiology and Post-Release Survivorship of Deep Sea Sharks

Madhusudan Katti
Research discipline: Ecology
Year awarded: Spring 1993
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title: Winter Ecology and Conservation of Migrant Birds in India

Michael Donovan
Research discipline: Paleontology/Sedimentation
Year awarded: Spring 2004
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title: First Comparison of Latest Cretaceous and Early Paleocene Insect Damage in theSouthern Hemisphere: Evidence for a Patagonian Biodiversity Refugium After Mass Extinction?

Matt Napolitano
Research discipline: Anthropology
Year awarded: Spring 2018 and Spring 2019
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title: First Colonization of the Land of Stone Money: Archaeological Investigations of the Remote Island of Yap, Western Micronesia

Sydney Hope
Research discipline: Behavioral Ecology
Grant awarded: Fall 2014
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title: Effects of the Early Physical and Social Environment on Corticosterone Concentrations and the Development of Personality

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