APS Innovation's Impact

Discover how the APS Innovation Fund is successfully spurring creative solutions to challenging problems in physics.
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Innovation Fund awardees

Discover the ways that Innovation Fund awardees are creatively implementing solutions to challenges facing the physics community.

EDI Fellows Program group

A workshop designed by the EDI Fellows Program, funded by APS, aims to equip physics educators for tough but important conversations.

As some schools face declining undergraduate enrollment, physics departments are turning to resources like DALI.

The Departmental Action Leadership Institute has expanded the reach of EP3, a guide for physics departments looking for positive change.

From left to right, Winfred Mueni Mulwa from Egerton University in Kenya and Bamidele Ibrahim Adetunji from Bells University of Technology in Nigeria collaborate with Elif Ertekin at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2022. The visit was borne out of USAfrI, an initiative supported by the APS Innovation Fund.

Despite the pandemic, travel restrictions, and even armed conflict, partnerships between researchers in the US and Africa persist.

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The movement to incorporate data science into the undergraduate physics curriculum is gaining momentum, bolstered by a 2021 APS Innovation Fund award.

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Although much of quantum information science is still theoretical, technology companies and national laboratories are investing heavily in its development.

Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards

In partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, APS Innovation used the Fundamental Physics Innovation (FPI) Awards to bring researchers together in new, collaborative ways to use emerging technologies to address pressing problems in the physics of fundamental particle interactions.

Discover the innovative achievements of FPI awardees

Learn about APS Innovation's current partnership with the Moore Foundation

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Encouraging physicists to explore the edges of their field with a focus on education, broadening access and involvement, career-building, and research.

The APS Medal

APS honors exceptional contributions to the physics community, including travel support for students and early career physicists.

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