2022 SPS Chapter Research Award Recipients

The following SPS chapters have received Chapter Research Awards to fund chapter research projects. The awards provide calendar year grants to support local chapter activities that are deemed imaginative and likely to contribute to the strengthening of the SPS program. The awards are funded by generous donations from members of the SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma community.

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George Washington University

Characterizing Atmospheric Muon Concentration Using a High Altitude Balloon-Based Detector

Louisiana Tech University

Tiny Dancers with Moves Like Jagger: Normal Mode Analysis of Anthropomorphic Organic Molecules

McMurry University

BAJA SAE 2023 Phase One: Structuring the BAJA Blast

Missouri Southern State University

The Minute Differences in Production

Finding the sun: developing a Sun Sensor for use on a 1U CubeSat satellite

Suffolk University

Neutron Energy Distribution of an AmBe Source at the MGH Proton Center

The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

A LEGO Watt balance: an apparatus to determine the SI unit of kilogram using the fundamental Plank’s constant

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Construction of a low-cost Muon Detector