Mock Application to Sigma Xi for a Grant in Aid of Research
Note: as Sigma Xi guidelines are not available at present, this will serve for your mock application. Please DO NOT take these as the real guidelines that Sigma Xi follows. If you do plan to make such an application,visit their web site http://www.sigmaxi.org/giar/guidelines.htm about two months before the deadline!
 

Last Name                                   First Name

Present position, degree program, department and name of institution
 

Title of Study
 
 

Proposed Investigation  (Note, paraphrased from Sigma Xi, " Good proposals address an explicit research hypothesis set in the context of a larger theory or model and present proposed research methods; the relationship of the hypothesis with the data to be gathered and previous work on the topic") This section is limited to 450 words.
 

Budget:
Total funds requested:
Nature of assistance desired and amount of grant needed, itemized with justification:
This section is limited to one page.
 
 

Example of budget justification from a previous student's genuine proposal:

1. Mouse interferon Gamma ELISA kit
    a. essential for the study, unable to perform Interferon Gamma assay without it.                     $450.00