Recent Awards
Spring 2023 Awards
Strand 1: Duncan McBride PER Conference Award
Abigail Daane: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Strand 2: Travel Grants
Meagan Sundstrom: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Bryan Stanley: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Cami Monsalve: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Astra Sword: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Jocelyn Robbins: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Frank Dachille: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Andrea Wooley: Funding to attend 2023 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Spring 2022 Awards
Strand 2: Travel Grants
Phoebe Sharp: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Astra Sword: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Meagan Sundstrom: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Charlotte Zimmerman: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Tunde Kushimo: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Fatema Al Salmani: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Nate Crossette: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Gregory Carroll: Funding to attend 2022 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Strand 4: Organizer Grants
Project: PERC Organizers
This award funded honoraria for participating in the 2022 PERC.
Strand 6: Physical Review PER Article Processing Charge Grants
Linda Strubbe
Spring 2021 Awards
Strand 2: Travel Grants
Johan Tabora: Funding to attend 2021 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Strand 4: Organizer Grants
Project: PERC Organizers
This award funded honoraria for three members of the PER community to participate in the closing session at the 2021 PERC.
Strand 5: Innovation and Community Resource Grants
Alexis Knaub, Dimitri Dounas-Frazer, & Eric Kuo
Grief-Literacy Training for Members of the PER Community; this proposal sought funds to pay for an online 20-person Grief Literacy training.
Strand 6: Physical Review PER Article Processing Charge Grants
Lauren Barth-Cohen: "Reasoning with evidence while modeling: Successes at the middle school level."
Spring 2020 Awards
Strand 2: Travel Grants
Z. Yasemin Kalender: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Sophia Jeon: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Macon Magno: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Michael Nadeau: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Elias Euler: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Chris Gosling: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Carrie Weidner: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Sofie Van den Eynde: Funding to attend 2020 Summer AAPT Meeting/PERC
Cole Walsh: Funding to attend Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress
Strand 3: Scholar-In-Residence Grants
Mary Bridget Kustusch, Associate Professor, DePaul University to visit Dr. Eleanor Sayre at Kansas State University.
Strand 4: Organizer Grants
Project: Support for Invited Speaker at the 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting
Danny Doucette
The purpose of this award is to support Jess Mollerup (undergraduate student at Western Washington University) in presenting their invited talk, "Inclusive Physics & Astronomy Discussions at Western Washington University," at the summer 2020 meeting of AAPT as part of the invited-only session, "Teaching Equity in Physics."
Project: Reflecting critically on student success: travel & honorariums for invited speakers
Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer
The purpose of this award is to support a proposed PERC 20/20 Symposium that would comprise three invited talks that critically reflect on student success.
Fall 2019 Awards
Strand 2: Travel Grants
Mike Vignal: Funding to attend 2019 American Geophysical Union's Annual Fall Meeting
Callie Rethman: Funding to attend 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting
Anne Wang: Funding to attend 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting
Rachel Henderson: Funding to attend 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting
Matthew Dew: Funding to attend 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting
Rabindra Bajracharya: Funding to attend 2020 Winter AAPT meeting
Strand 3: Scholar-In-Residence Grants
Jessica Hoehn, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Colorado Boulder, to visit Dr. Shane Bergin and Dr. Claudia Fracchiolla at University College Dublin and Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield at National University of Ireland Galway
Strand 4: Organizer Grants
Project: Support for International Speaker at the 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting
Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Western Washington University
The purpose of this award is to support Mylène DiPenta (Nova Scotia Community College, Kentville, NS,Canada) in presenting their approach to teaching electronics in a two-year technician program, as part of a session on "Rethinking Boundaries of the Laboratory Classroom". This invited-only session will include four speakers focusing on the boundaries of the lab classroom.
Strand 5: Innovation and Community Resource Grants
Project: Digital Visibility for PERCoGS, the PER Consortium of Graduate Students
Danny Doucette, Lisa Goodhew, Constance Doty
This project will improve the visibility of the PER Consortium of Graduate Students (PERCoGS), and increase their ability to serve the community. PERCoGS supports newcomers (students and others) by providing information, resources, and newsletters on a website and through a social media presence. This project will register the domain percogs.com and pay for the graphic design of a new logo to represent the group.
Project: The PER Review Network
Jayson Nissen and Rachel Scherr
This project focuses on teaching the next generation of the PER community how to conduct respectful and constructive peer reviews. Groups of 3-4 students and postdocs will be organized into pods with a volunteer faculty mentor, will practice writing reviews, and receive feedback and mentoring.
Strand 6: Physical Review Physics Education Research Article Processing Charge Grants
Michael Wittmann: "Foregrounding epistemology and everyday intuitions in a quantum physics course for non-science majors"
Strand 4: Organizer Grants
Project: Support for International Speaker at the 2020 AAPT Summer Meeting
Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Western Washington University
The purpose of this award is to support Mylène DiPenta (Nova Scotia Community College, Kentville, NS,Canada) in presenting their approach to teaching electronics in a two-year technician program, as part of a session on "Rethinking Boundaries of the Laboratory Classroom". This invited-only session will include four speakers focusing on the boundaries of the lab classroom.
Strand 5: Innovation and Community Resource Grants
Project: Digital Visibility for PERCoGS, the PER Consortium of Graduate Students
Danny Doucette, Lisa Goodhew, Constance Doty
This project will improve the visibility of the PER Consortium of Graduate Students (PERCoGS), and increase their ability to serve the community. PERCoGS supports newcomers (students and others) by providing information, resources, and newsletters on a website and through a social media presence. This project will register the domain percogs.com and pay for the graphic design of a new logo to represent the group.
Project: The PER Review Network
Jayson Nissen and Rachel Scherr
This project focuses on teaching the next generation of the PER community how to conduct respectful and constructive peer reviews. Groups of 3-4 students and postdocs will be organized into pods with a volunteer faculty mentor, will practice writing reviews, and receive feedback and mentoring.