PION
CULTIVATING BELONGING & PHYSICS IDENTITY
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.
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.
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Research
We are conducting research as a part of the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant that was awarded for this project.