The Pan-American Association for Physics received support to establish the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP) in the form of grants from the Sloan Foundation.
[1] An initial organizing meeting was held at the University of Texas at Austin in May 1995, under the leadership of David Ernst, Carlos Ordonez, and Jorge Lopez.
The US-Mexico Workshop on Teaching Introductory Physics, the first major project undertaken by the Society, was held the same year in Monterrey, Mexico.
The project was a bilingual joint venture between the NSHP and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) to explore the goals of the introductory physics sequence and recent pedagogical developments to meet those goals.
The National Society of Hispanic Physicists has met annually with the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) since 1997 and twice with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (in Austin, TX in 2003 and Albuquerque, NM in 2005).