2023 Venture Grant Winners

In 2023, AIP distributed over $339,000 in Venture grants to support Member Society projects:

AMS
Green Meetings in a Post-Covid World
To become a thought leader on planning and executing green meetings and help other AIP Member Societies and Affiliates fulfill the recommendations related to environmental stewardship put forth in the FACETS report.

AMS
Equity Assessment
To collect and analyze longitudinal data through a quantitative and qualitative Culture Survey to understand membership demographics, and identify equity, inclusion, and justice (EIJ) successes and challenges; and to develop an EIJ strategic plan with goals, strategies, metrics, and benchmarks to fully integrate EIJ into AMS’s overall strategic plan and evaluate its impact over time.

APS
Science Trust
To address science misinformation, particularly around climate change, with the long-term goals of (1) empowering AIP societies’ membership to address scientific misinformation in their professional and personal lives and (2) developing a better understanding of the impact of membership participation in addressing misinformation.

Continued projects from 2022:
Collective Action on DEI, AMPERE, Solar Eclipses, Crystallography Video Library, Career-Counselling Portal, Conference Presentations/Shareable Software, REU in Acoustics, Vacuum Course Content.