2019 Venture Grant Winners

AAPM
Diversity and Inclusion Videos Project
This project will produce a series of videos featuring a diverse group of medical physicists, with the goal of encouraging more diversity among those interested in pursuing a career in medical physics.

ASA & APS
Science Writers’ Boot Camp
Funds support a new workshop that brings together science journalists and research scientists, to help the journalists to cover new science and to introduce scientists to the fundamentals of science journalism.

AAS & AMS & ASA
Building Infrastructure for ComSciCon
This project entails a two-day workshop hosted by AIP that will pilot a regular convening of students and society staff to build leadership capacity in science communications.

AAPM
Medical Physics: Future Workforce Needs (2-year project)
This innovative project will generate a data-driven assessment of current and future workforce needs in diagnostic medical physics.

SoR
Diversity Initiative (2-year project)
In partnership with AIP, the Society of Rheology will undertake a series of steps to understand the diversity of the rheology field and then institute strategic effort at making rheology more diverse and inclusive.

Continued projects from 2018: Vacuum Technology videos, Ask-the-Expert, Data Carpentry, Master Teachers