The Department of Biology is pleased to announce our latest Sigma Xi GIAR awards. This program awards grants up to $1000 each March and October for over a dozen research focus areas. Students are competing with their peers at a national/international level with the graduate students (PhD & MS) and undergraduates usually separated into two different categories. From 2000-2011 ASU has averaged 2.6 grants/yr and has averaged 4.5 grants/yr from 2006-2011. In 2010 and 2011 we set our new record at 6 grants!

“Response of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to the antioxidant ethylenediurea (EDU): An evaluation of the physiological mechanisms by which EDU acts”
Stan Bartkowiak, Biology Undergraduate
Advisor: Howie Neufeld
Subject: Physiology/Functional Morphology

“Influence of Biochar on Physiological Responses and Drought Tolerance of Miscanthus x giganteus”
Alyssa Teat, Biology Graduate Student
Advisor: Howie Neufeld and Eva Gonzales
Subject: Physiology/Functional Morphology

“Synthesis and Characterization of Cobaloximes as Hydrogen Catalysts”
Zach Gilbert, Chemistry Undergraduate
Advisor: Dale Wheeler
Subject: Chemistry

“Characterization of the Meis 2-linked gene”
Anna Cochrane, Biology Graduate Student
Advisor: Ted Zurucha
Subject: Cell Biology/Biochemistry

Grants from the March 2011 Deadline
Alexandra Bentz, Biology Graduate Student
Mentor: Lynn Siefferman
Subject: Behavioral Ecology

Grants from the October 2010 Deadline
Edward Burress, Biology Graduate Student
Mentor: Lynn Siefferman
Subject: Ecology

Jessica Howells, Biology Graduate Student
Mentor: Ray Williams
Subject: Ecology

Desiree Moffitt, Biology Graduate Student
Mentor: Lynn Siefferman
Subject: Conservation Biology