Grassroots Initiatives to Address Needs Together (GIANT)

At the IDEA Institute, we believe that everyone can create change.

The IDEA Institute supports scholarship, innovation, collaboration, and leadership in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. The aim of the Grassroots Initiatives to Address Needs Together (GIANT) program is to enable teams of students, postdocs, staff, and faculty to propose and implement research-based initiatives at the grassroots level.

41

Teams awarded for project funds

$565K

Distributed to teams to conduct and publish their research including contributions from co-sponsors at IBM and HIVE.

80+

Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff members involved

GIANT News

Cena y Ciencias: Inspiring the Next Generation of Latine Scientists

GIANT Features
July 2, 2024

ASL ASPIRE

GIANT Features
April 26, 2024

Graduate Orientation for Women (GrOW) and Minority Genders Build Confidence and Community in Engineering

GIANT Features
March 4, 2024

GIANT Project Selections

The GIANT program seeks proposals from teams (comprising of undergraduates, graduates, and/or faculty) that want to actively collaborate with a target population to jointly identify a need and address the issue through innovative project activities, measure the outcomes, document best practices, and publish the results.

Click below to see the list of the funded GIANT projects through the years:

GIANT Projects