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The POGIL Project has named Lancaster Country Day educator Laura Trout (Lancaster, PA) as its inaugural recipient of the POGIL Impact Award. The award is bestowed on individuals or teams of individuals who have achieved extraordinary outcomes related to The POGIL Project’s strategic plan. The award celebrates sustained impact and/or innovation achieved by a member or members of the POGIL community, and highlights a strong footprint in both The Project and the POGIL community.

Andy Aspaas (Anoka-Ramsey Community College) and Siobhan Julian (Webster Schroeder HS. ) Earn the POGIL PEACH Award

Those of us in education have been through the wringer these past two years with COVID protocols and restrictions. It has been a tough time, with administrators asking for more as we experience fewer and fewer of the connections that keep us in this career.

The POGIL Project and Kendall Hunt Publishing are thrilled to announce an exciting, new publishing partnership between the two organizations. Effective November 2021, Kendall Hunt will manufacture and distribute more than a dozen titles at the post-secondary level for The POGIL Project.

We are delighted to announce that our very own POGIL Podcast is launching a second season! Click to listen to the episodes!

With the recent passing of Larry King, friends, interviewees, and news organizations reflected on his legendary career in journalism and his passion for connecting with people.

Shannon Wachowski is currently the Science Consultant for the Wyoming Department of Education (as of June 2020!). In her 14-year career as an educator, Shannon has taught a variety of science and math classes in rural high school settings as well as facilitated professional development for teachers, from pre-service to veteran, through her work with The POGIL Project, PEER Physics, and the University of Wyoming. Originally a chemical engineer, Shannon left industry to pursue a career of life-long learning and helping others learn. In her spare time, Shannon enjoys climbing, running, pottery, quilting, and spending time with her dog, Shasta and husband, Neil.

Melissa S. Reeves received her B.S. in chemistry at University of Florida and her Ph.D. in chemistry at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is an associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecular dynamics of polymers. She was part of the Physical Chemistry Online (PCOL) group in the early 2000s, has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam Committees, and works as part of the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.

Patrick Brown is from Clinton, TN a small community in the Appalachian foothills. He received his B.S. in Biology from UT-Chattanooga and his Ph.D. in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia. After nearly 5 years as a research scientist with the Belle Baruch Marine Institute of the University of South Carolina, he became an Assistant Professor of Biology at King College (now University) in Bristol, TN. It was while at King that he first became exposed to POGIL through one of The Project’s 3-day workshops. He joined the faculty of the Department of Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University in 2011 where he is now an Associate Professor and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Teaching Excellence. He has written journal articles and book chapters about POGIL and is the author of Anatomy and Physiology: A Guided Inquiry.