Mini-Grant Past Winners

Past Winners

Awardee Name	Institution	Project Title
Jill Wenderott	Drexel University	Design of Low-Cost, Hands-on Physics Laboratory Kits for Secondary-Level Students in Eastern Africa
Patrick Banner	University of Maryland, College Park	Impostor Phenomenon and the Physics Graduate Student Experience
Kausik Das	University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Empowering Future Scientists: Physics Outreach for Minority High School and Undergraduate Students
Lynn Cominsky	Sonoma State University	Quantum Information Poster for CPEP
Patricia Soto	Creighton University	Grant to support in-person primarily/predominantly undergraduate institution (PUI) networking events at annual professional conferences

Awardee Name	Institution	Project Title
Philippe Binder	University of Hawaii at Hilo	Developing a physics lexicon in the Hawaiian language
Emily Grace	Northwestern College	need to ask for title
Jose Leobardo Banuelo	Mount Aloysius College	Enhancing Physics and Astronomy Laboratories
Bradley Moser	Hamilton College	Physics Alive - a podcast for science educators
Madelyn Leembruggen	Harvard University	A World of Women in STEM (WOW STEM)
Todd Ruskell	Colorado School of Mines	Open Source Online Physics Activities and Homework for WeBWorK
Phoebe Sharp	George Washington University	PERCoGS Early-Career Symposium Series
Tony Qian	Princeton University	Plasma Physics Trading Cards
Jose Leobardo Banuelos	University of Texas at El Paso	Big Ideas in Physics -- Undergraduate Research Fundamentals
Sarah Dowd	United Nations International School	ChatPhysics.org Resourcing Project
Kyle Wipfli	Texas Tech University	Exploration of Canonical Transformations in Graduate Level Physics

Awardee Name	Institution	Project Title
Douglas N. Arion	Carthage College	Video Astronomy for Education and Outreach
Colleen Countryman	Ithaca College	The Development of a Mobile Game to Aid Students’ Understanding of Electric Fields
Michael B. Bennett	University of Colorado, Boulder	A Multimodal, Partnership-Based Public Engagement Model for the COVID Era
Katemari Rosa	Federal University of Bahia, Brazil	Building "mini physics lab kits" with 3D printers for pre-service teachers
Mercy Arancon	Ajo High School, AZ	Providing internet access to underserved Latinx and Native American high school students
Celestina Pangan	Humble High School, TX	Improvement of the STEMcoding Project for online delivery and for ELL students
Aaron Titus	North Carolina State	Developing and Deploying New Open-Source Technology for Teaching Physics
Gina Quan	San Jose State University	Funding the Access Network Emergency Fund
Paul Bourgeois	University of Massachusetts	Translating online, paid services to open-source teaching resources in introductory physics
Geraldine Cochran	Rutgers	Supporting online course transition through participatory research with LAs
Todd Holden	Queensborough Community College	PhET-like simulation for teaching Bragg reflection and X-ray diffraction