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About

These grants are run by the SSE Education and Outreach committee and provide support for local and regional educational outreach activities to take place during 2025. It is our hope that these projects will lead to ongoing outreach collaboration in future years. Preference will be given to new collaborations, but extensions of previous projects that have evidence of success are allowed. Proposals will be accepted until March 1, 2025.

Examples of past outreach activities have included public lectures, exhibits, student competitions, and professional development events for teachers. We especially encourage proposals that focus on discussing and implementing evolution education reforms recommended in the Vision & Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: Chronicling Change, Inspiring the Future report or on dialogues between undergraduate instructors and K-12 teachers around the new emphasis on evolution in the AP Biology Curriculum Framework and the Next Generation Science Standards. We look forward to your applications!
 

Eligibility

Applicants must be members of SSE, and are advised to join SSE, if not already members, as soon as possible to facilitate their applications. To learn more about Membership types and available discount programs, visit our Membership page.
 

How to Apply

1. Proposal: Clearly but briefly state your plans in NO MORE THAN one single-spaced page.
2. Amounts requested may be up to $1000 USD.  Include a short justification for the use of the funds.  Indicate any additional matching funds and include letters of commitment from collaborative partners.  
3. Send your request by email attachment (subject heading 'SSE Outreach Grant 2025') to smallgrants [at] evolutionsociety.org.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2024
 

Evaluation Criteria

Applications will be ranked by an SSE Education Committee working group according to the following criteria:

1. Does the activity explicitly deal with evolution and its concepts?
2. Is there a clear plan for outreach?
3. What is the overall impact of that outreach (i.e., number of participants, need for activity)?
4. Is the budget reasonable and justified?

Award

Projects under $500 will receive funds when the award is given. For projects from $500 - $1000, the preference is to award the funds to the applicant's institution at the start of the project, with the applicant then being reimbursed from their institution. In exceptional circumstances when this is not possible, funds can be paid directly to the applicant upon completion of the project with submission of receipts. Indirect costs may not be charged to this award. Please email the SSE Treasurer at treasurer@evolutionsociety.org with questions.
 

Next Steps

We expect to fund in the range of 5-10 projects, with announcement of awards to take place in April. We look forward to your applications!

Recipients of this award will submit an accompanying report within two months of the activity. These may be highlighted in the SSE newsletter. All reports and associated talks should highlight the grant funding obtained.

Even if you are not interested in applying for funding from the SSE, we encourage you to engage through whatever means are at your disposal in opportunities to promote public understanding of evolutionary biology.

Previous Recipients

2024

Gonzalo Peñaloza Jimenez
CINVESTAV - Instituto Politécnico Nacional
"Bringing Human Evolution into science classrooms: A Summer Schoolfor Mexican Biology Teachers"

Sarah Richards
Pennsylvania State University
"A Winogradsky column as a “living laboratory” on display to exploremicrobial evolution in real time"

Gil Rosenthal
University of Padova
"From eco-evolutionary processes to macroevolution: place-based outreach for anIndigenous area of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental"

Janelle Talavera
Binghamton University (SUNY)
"Junior Biologists Outreach Program (JBOP)"

Patrick Rohner 
University of California San Diego
"Making evolution approachable using 3D models of dung beetles"

Mariela Oviedo-Diego & Franco Cargnelutti
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
"Understanding urban evolution using arthropod local diversity and contrasting experiences between city and rural schools of central Argentina"

2023

2022 

Andy Flick, Vanderbilt University
Telma Laurentino, University of California – Berkeley
Abigail Matela, University of Pittsburgh
Harshad Mayekar, Ahmedabad University
Manish Pathak, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Claire Williams, University of Texas - Austin

2021 

Haosu (Susu) Cong, Michigan State University
Lydia Greene, Duke University
Alexa Guerrara, Florida State University
Travis Hagey, Mississippi University for Women
Emily Lau, University of California – Santa Barbara
Sara Lipshutz, Indiana University - Bloomington
Pedro Taucce, Sao Paulo State University

2020 

Rebecca Brewer, Michigan State University
Travis Hagey, Mississippi University for Women
Angela Hung, Prairie State College
Javier Monzon, Pepperdine University
Barbora Trubenova, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Matt Wilkins, Vanderbilt University
Kristin M. Winchell, Washington University
 

2019

Pauline Blaimont, Katherine Dale & Carla Sette - University of California, Santa Cruz
Grupo de Divulgación (Pía Pacheco, Dr. Eduardo Soto, Lic. Ángeles Arena, Lic. Valeria Arencibia, Lic. Martín Fasanelli, Lic. Lucas Kreiman, Lic. Fiona Puntieri, Martina Pernigotti, Alejandra Pérez, & Gonzalo Rodríguez Rizk) - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Abigail Hudak - Washington State University
Telma G. Laurentino et al. - Portuguese Association for the Teaching of the Blind
T. Mason Linscott & Christine E. Parent - University of Idaho
Jeanette Pirlo, Victor Perez, & Sean Moran - University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History
Stefanie Siller & Shailee S. Shah - Columbia University
Barbora Trubenova - Institute of Science and Technology Austria

2018

Claire Adrian-Tucci - NCSE 
Idalia C. Rojas Barrera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mattheau Comerford - Rice University 
Reese Fulgenzi - University of Virginia 
Carlos Guarnizo - Ciencia Café Pa Sumerce 
Scott Hotaling; et al - Washington State University 
Stacy Krueger-Hadfield; Sarah Adkins - Univ of Alabama at Birmingham 
Andrew Larson - Columbus Signature Academy New Tech High School
Maria Pilar Herrera - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos 
Molly Selba - Univ of Florida 
Rohini Singh; Erin Doody & Melina Gyaparki - Univ. of Pennsylvania 
Melanie Smee - Cornell Univ. 
Sheela Turbek - Univ. of Colorado, Boulder 
Ghada Yousif; Sara Mitri; Khaled Elsayed 

2017

Logan Cole - Indiana University
Nicole Freidenfields - Tolland Public Schools
Joseph Jalinsky - University of Iowa
Harald Parzer - Fairleigh Dickinson University
Jon Perry - Stated Clearly
Todd Pierson - University of Tennessee Knoxville
Matthew Rubin - Syracuse University
Molly Martell - University of Florida

2016

Henry Arenas-Castro & Wendy Valencia - Colombian Network for Evolutionary Biology
Larry Bowman & Daniel MacGuigan - Yale University
Cory Kohn & Mike Wiser - Michigan State University
Chris Torres - University of Texas - Austin
Marco Cocito-Monoc - LSU Museum of Natural Science
Riley Graham - University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Gunter - Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Liz Landis - Tufts University
Kathryn Massana - University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Robin Tinghitella - University of Denver
Eric Wice - Rice University
Su'ad Yoon - University of Nevada - Reno
Alex Berry - University of Pennsylvania Alex Hall - University of Texas - Arlington

2014-2015

Christopher Balakrishnan & Dustin Foote - East Carolina University
Emily Behrman - University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Burls & Cynthia Scholl - University of Nevada, Reno
Theodore Garland - University of California, Riverside
Jacqualine Grant - Southern Utah University
Eric Meikle - National Center for Science Education
John Niedzwiecki - Belmont University
EEB Program Graduate Students - Rice University
Beatriz Otero-Jimenez - University of Michigan
Catherine Peichel & Carole Tanner - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
William Ratcliff - Georgia Tech University
Stanley Rice - Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Stacey Smith - University of Colorado
Mehmet Somel - Middle East Technical University
Angela Stathos - University of Montana
Eric von Wettberg - Florida International University
Jennifer Weber - Fordham University
Emily Weigel - Michigan State University

2012-2013

2011

Dr. Paula Cushing - Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, USA
Kevin Deitz - Texas A&M University, TX, USA
Sarah Eddy - Oregon State University, OR, USA
Dr. Norman Johnson - University of Massachusets, MA, US
David Kikuchi - University of North Carolina, NC, USA
Dr. Barbara Lundrigan - Michigan State University, MI, USA
Dr. Emilie Snell-Rood - University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Dr. Philip Barnes - Connecticut College, CT, USA

2010