Student Grant Program

Student Research Award Grants Application Deadline October 15 and March 8

Review application Guidelines here.

Submit all materials, including the recommendation form, by email to SigmaXi@usf.edu.

The Sigma Xi USF chapter announced its first Student Grant Program to support research for both undergraduate and graduate students in Fall 2022.

Graduate Recipients - Spring 2025

• Felipe Stanchak, Ph.D. Candidate in Marine Science, Year 2; College of Marine Science; Advisor: Amelia Shevenell; Project title: "Evaluating the suitability of DSDP legacy cores for Plio-Pleistocene ocean temperatures reconstructions of East Antartica" ($699)
• Yuly Paola Rave Bonilla, Ph.D. Candidate in Volcanology, Year 3; School of Geosciences, College of Arts & Sciences; Advisor: Aurelie Germa; Project title: "Newly identified monogenetic volcanoes in Antioquia. Colombia: the possibly northernmost monogeneticl volcanic filed of Andes Cordillera" ($640)

Graduate Recipients - Fall 2024

• Christine Bergmann, Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Anthropology, Year 5; Dept. of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences; Advisors: Robert H. Tykot and Charles Stanish,  Department of Anthropology. "Creating a Pollen and Phytolith Reference Collection for Paleoenvironmental Studies in the Andean Region" ($700)
• Khuloud Alrashdi, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Year 3; Dept. of Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering, College of Engineering; Advisor: Norma Alcantar; Project title: "Sustainable Photocatalytic Films: Enhancing TiO2 with ZnO and Cactus Mucilage for Water Purification" ($363.87)

Graduate Recipients - Spring 2024

• Colin Goodman, Ph.D. candidate, Deban Lab, Department of Integrative Biology. 
  “Muscles, motor patterns, and movement: what explains interspecific variation in thermal performance curves?”
• Fernanda Silva Pimenta, PhD student, Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering. “Landfill Gas to Produce Liquid Fuels and Chemicals using an Eggshell Catalyst” 

Undergraduate Recipients - Spring 2024

• Kira M. Ruiz-Houston, Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Minor in Infection Control; Minor in General Public Health. “Functional Analysis of Novel Holin Proteins in Mycobacteria Phage D29.”
• Daniela Zamora Alviarez, B.S. Mechanical Engineering. “Characterization of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayers for Electrocatalysis”

Graduate Recipient - Fall 2023

• Sunhye Kim, Ph.D. Geology program. Research mentor: Dr. Patricia Spellman. Project title: Quantifying the impact of farming on karst spring water quality.

Undergraduate Recipient - Fall 2022

• Lauren Trumbull, B.S. Integrative Animal Biology/ Research mentor: Dr. Mark Margres
  Award will be used for RP-HPLC runs at USF core facility for 61 venom samples.

Graduate Recipients - Fall 2022

• Laura Calabro, Master in Geology, School of Geosciences. Research mentor: Dr. Bogdan Onac. Award will be used to cover the expenses for radiocarbon dating at the Beta Analytic radiocarbon dating lab in Miami
• Niveditha Nerlakanti, Cancer biology PhD program, Dept. of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (CMMB). Research mentor: Dr. Conor Lynch. Award will be used to travel to the Metastasis Research society conference