PION

CULTIVATING BELONGING & PHYSICS IDENTITY

Take the PION IUSE introductory survey HERE!

Mission of the project

Pion serves as an intervention to provide mentoring and professional development resources in order to influence undergraduate physics students' sense of belonging and physics identity.

  • General professional development

  • Grad school preparation

  • Industry preparation


  • Professional mentors can provide mentees with lab tours, career advice, informal interviews, and job shadowing.


  • Excerpts from CIMER's Mentoring Up curriculum to help faculty mentors address important topics with mentees.


  • Monthly Pion Mentorship meetings

  • Peer mentor (Big Pi) and peer mentee (Little Pi) pairings meet regularly.


The national SPS & Sigma Pi Sigma Pion Portal has many additional resources for the different components of the Pion Program.


PION-poster-2021-Final.pdf

Research

We are conducting research as a part of the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant that was awarded for this project.