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"