Gaige Fund Award
* Applicants must be members of ASIH and should be enrolled in an advanced degree program.
* Because of limited funds, previous awardees requesting additional funding for the same or a similar project will be given lower priority.
Gaige Awards are presented annually in honor of Frederick (Dick) and Helen Gaige, both of whom lived during the years 1890-1976. Dick Gaige, an entomologist, was also an avid herpetological collector and was director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan from 1928-1945. Helen Gaige was a herpetologist with an interest in Neotropical frogs. The Gaiges showed a lively interest in colleagues and students and, through their helpfulness to others, were a major influence in biology in the United States and on herpetology in particular. Applications are solicited for grants to be awarded from the Gaige Fund. These funds are used to provide support to young herpetologists for museum or laboratory study, travel, fieldwork, or any other activity that will effectively enhance their professional careers by contributing to the science of herpetology.
Applications for the Gaige Award and letters of recommendation should be sent as PDFs (email attachemnts) to the Gaige Award Chairperson: Dr. Emily Taylor, etaylor@calpoly.edu . The application must include the following:
(1) name, address, email address, and telephone numbers of the applicant
(2) institutional affiliation
(3) academic degree being sought and the year of its expected completion, or highest degree and its date of award
(4) name of the applicant's current or most recent major professor
(5) names, addresses and telephone numbers of two persons who have agreed to recommend the applicant and proposal (see below)
(6) title of the proposed research
(7) a concise description of the proposed investigation including the general research objectives and methods of study (see below)
(8) sources and amounts of partial support for the research and pending applications for support and amounts from other sources
(9) a prioritized budget outline not exceeding the range of typical awards
(10) a short statement of the way in which the award would be used to enhance research.
Two letters of recommendation from persons familiar with the applicant and his or her research must be solicited by the applicant. One of these letters should be from the current major professor.