Package of magnetic words that includes the department name and logo, and then all the words are just the list being ctrl-F-ed through all the grant and research proposals.
My fav is a pen that has a ruler (cm and inches), level, and screwdriver in it. It became an essential item for teaching the importance of taking pictures with scale. (Leafs, bugs, rocks, fossils, etc)
Oh! I wonder if you could get the Foldscope people to do customized (your department logo) origami microscopes? They're really cool, and only $1 each in bulk.
It's a non-profit through the Prakash lab at Stanford (on here!), and partially funded through NSF, but I wonder if the'd consider it as an outreach or fundraising idea.
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(I'm now on my second Marie Tharp mug, no regrets)