Collaborative Research Competition

Alpha Chi is an interdisciplinary honor society, and this annual competition is one way Alpha Chi fosters collaboration among student members from these different academic fields. The competition is named for Dr. Trisha Yarbrough, the society’s third executive director who was responsible for the idea that Alpha Chi, a multidisciplinary organization, should proactively encourage collaborative undergraduate research with an express focus on finding solutions for real-world issues thus clearly making “scholarship effective for good,” the society’s charge to members since the 1930s.

The competition is judged by an interdisciplinary panel of judges that evaluates multiple competition elements. Any Alpha Chi chapter may assemble an interdisciplinary team to research a common goal. See below to learn about this year's top two teams.

$5,000 First Place Prize

Texas Psi, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
Michael Campbell, Adrian Puckett & Jennifer Wadlow

$2,500 Second Place Prize

California Zeta, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA
Brooke Barham, Jan Bialecki, Jasmine Sirvent, Fatima Torrez-Sanchez & Safaa Umar