Bouchet Endowment Campaign

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Thank You to Our Donors

• Diola Bagayoko
• B. Alex Brown
• Heather Burns
• R. Sekhar Chivukula
• Sylvester James Gates
• Larry Gladney
• Gabriela Gonzalez
  
• Laura Greene
• Gaston Gutierrez
• Beverly Karplus Hartline
• Wendell Talbot Hill
• Theodore Hodapp
  
• Elizabeth Karplus
• Daniel J. Larson
• Eric Lin
• Ramon Lopez
• Juan Maldacena
  
• Kathlee Maloy
• Stephen Craig McGuire
• Cherry Murray
• Jorge Pullin
• Helen & Dan Quinn
• Susan Seestrom
• Elizabeth Simmons
• Stephen Steadman
• Donna Stokes
• Serge Ulloa
• Herman White
  
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation*
• Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program**
  
• Jefferson Science Associates*
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)**
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology**
• Research Corporation**
  
• Yale University**

* Providing temporary annual support
** Gifts/pledges of $10k or more

Mailing Info

Checks payable to American Physical Society

Darlene Logan
American Physical Society
Attn: Bouchet Award
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740

For the past 18 years, the Edward A. Bouchet Award has connected exceptional minority physicists with students from the US and abroad.  The award will lose its annual funding in 2013, so APS needs your help.  Our goal is to endow this award by raising $140,000 so as to continue to mentor and inspire under-represented minorities as part of the next generation of scientists.
About Edward A. Bouchet Award

How You Can Help

Donate!
When you donate to the Edward A. Bouchet Endowment, you are helping promote the participation of under-represented minorities in physics. And when you donate before May 2013, APS will match 100% of your contribution.

• Travel to a minimum of three academic institutions to interact with students
• Lectures, classroom visits, and high school physics outreach efforts
• Mentoring students and faculty about physics research and teaching careers

• Listing on the APS Bouchet Award Site
• Recognition in the APS annual report
• For donations of $10k or larger: Listing in the APS annual Prizes and Awards booklet.  Invitation to co-present the award with the APS president at the annual awards ceremony and attend the presidential reception

Award Impact

Recipients
The award has a large impact on the recipients’ careers both inside, and surprisingly, outside of the physics community. For many recipients, the award raises the visibility of their research and leads to exciting career opportunities. Many of the winners have been recruited to participate in documentaries, lecture at prestigious institutions, and are recognized as experts in their field by organizations outside of the physics community.

Students
As much as the Bouchet Award has done for its recipients' careers, perhaps the most significant impact of the Award has been on physics students. One Bouchet Award winner was astounded by the number of students both at his institution and outside of his institution who were aware that he had won the Award. These students wanted to talk with him about his research as well as pursuing careers in physics.

The award has clearly been successful in identifying and highlighting under-represented minority role models for the next generation of scientists.