Sigma Xi's Grants-in-Aid of Research Centennial Campaign

Contribute Online to Sigma Xi's GIAR Centennial Campaign Today!

For 84 years, Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research have made a difference for nearly 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students' research projects at a crucial time in their early careers. The grants are awarded in all disciplines of science and engineering, including the social sciences.

In 2022, the Society's GIAR program will be 100 years old. The Society's current GIAR endowment sits at $3.8M. That endowment needs to grow to be even more effective in supporting promising young research students. To celebrate our GIAR's centenary, and for Sigma Xi to truly represent an investment in the future of science and engineering, we wish to raise that endowment to $22M by the year 2022. But our first target, and this is where we need your help, is to raise $5M by 2012.

I have been sending a regular contribution to the
GIAR program for many years, but I agree with Sigma Xi
that the time has come for something more substantial.

—John Wiesenfeld, GIAR 1971

Will you now help continue Sigma Xi's proud tradition of supporting young, promising students at the outset of their research careers? By supporting the GIAR Centennial Campaign you will change lives, challenge thinking and encourage innovation. You can help to shape the future, by supporting today's and tomorrow's scientists and engineers.

Click here to see the giving options we encourage you to consider. If you would like to discuss these options, please contact at 800-243-6534 x210.

It was the best of learning experiences. But you know, to be
a graduate student and to have access to modest grants that
might give you a way of realizing your first plans and your
first ideas; getting a flavor for those first experiences gives
you a memory that stays with you for life. You build on this and,
I think, although the grants are small, having a budget that you
can allocate to students at the beginning of their career for
them to realize what they're dreaming about is just a wonderful thing.

—Thomas Eisner, National Medal of Science Winner
Cornell University

Excerpted from "An Interview with Thomas Eisner". View the interview and hear about Eisner's and E.O. Wilson's GIAR adventures. (9:05) PC users    Mac users