Funding for Student Travel

Enabling student research through modest travel grants as well as larger research stipends and the other activities of Sigma Xi, is our goal.

We allow students to apply for travel funds up to $500 with any one student being allowed to apply once per year. The executive committee of our local chapter will evaluate these applications. In general, we will be able to provide funding to one or two students per year from each of our member departments.

This money could be used either semester. A student would be eligible if:

  • They are attending a meeting where they were presenting research results*, or
  • They are traveling to take part in a research collaboration, obtain data, or otherwise do research during the school year, and
  • They have already applied for travel money from at least one other source.

Applications are available here, as word and pdf documents. Note that they require the signature of a faculty research sponsor.

Please submit a paper copy of your application.

Completed applications may be submitted to Prof. Cheryl Grood in the Math/Stat Department at any time.

After you travel, fill out a travel reimbursement form [pdf] and send it--along with receipts--via campus mail to Cheryl Grood, the chapter president, in the Dept. of Math/Stat. She'll sign it to authorize the reimbursement. You can also get a blank form from your department office (you can ask the department A.A. for help). Fill out the dates, descriptions, and dollar amounts and then sign the form in the lower left. Prof. Grood will provide the authorizing signature, fill in the fund number, and submit the form to the business office. You'll recieve a check from the college within two weeks or so.

Note: The national Sigma Xi organization provides larger travel grants for student research. See their Grants in Aid of Research page.

*Applicants are normally expected to be presenting their work in order to get funds to travel to a meeting, but we will consider waiving this requirement on a case-by-case basis.

 

Funding for Summer Research

Our campus chapter has some limited funds available to support student research projects, consistent with Sigma Xi's goal of promoting student involvement in scientific research.

Because there is already a significant amount of funding available for student summer research projects with faculty on campus, we intend for our funding to support unusual, multi-disciplinary, and/or off-campus student research projects.

Sigma Xi uses the divisional/HHMI procedure for reviewing and disbursing research stipends to students for summer projects. Any application submitted to the Division/HHMI that is declined funding but is eligible for Sigma Xi funding will be automatically reviewed by Sigma Xi.

We anticipate making one or two summer research awards per year. These awards must be for the full amount, of $3750, per stipend.