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.

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 

Ciara Crochet
Research discipline: Physiology/Functional Morphology
Grant awarded: Spring 2018
Education level at time of grant: Undergraduate student
Study title: Hormonal Predictors of Aggression and Dominance in a Coercive Livebearing Fish 

Dawn Crawford
Research discipline: Anthropology
Grant awarded: Spring 2015
Education level at time of grant: PhD student
Study title: Reorganization of Household Production and Exchange During Terminal Classic Changes and “Collapse” in the Petén at Holtun, Guatemala

Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen
Research discipline: Computer Science and Mathematics
Grant awarded: Fall and Spring 2019-2020
Education level at time of grant: Undergraduate student
Study titles: The Effect of Socioeconomic, Gender, and Racial Determinants on Preventive Care, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up of Major Ophthalmic Diseases (Fall 2019); Mining Electronic Health Records: An Association Between Pre-Operative Frailty and Post-Operative
Outcomes in Older Patients of Ethnic-Minority Background Undergoing Glaucoma Surgery (Spring 2020)

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