Maria Burnatowska-Hledin receives new American Heart Association award

Maria Burnatowska-Hledin, the Frederich Garrett and Helen Floor Dekker Professor of Biomedicine and Chemistry, recently received a $154,000 award from the American Heart Association for the project titled Regulation of VACM-1/CUL5 signaling in the endothelium by a novel peptide ligand.  The project runs from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2020. Dr. Burnatowska-Hledin’s research group …

Paul DeYoung receives new NSF award

Paul DeYoung, the Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics, recently received a $240,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the project titled RUI: Nuclear Physics at Hope College with Undergraduates: New Science Enhancing the STEM Workforce.  The project will run from 1 August 2019 through 31 July 2022. Dr. DeYoung’s research group will examine …

Brent Krueger receives new NSF award

Brent Krueger, Professor of Chemistry, recently received a $400,400 grant from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program for the project titled MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for Undergraduate Chemistry Research and Teaching by the Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C).  The project will run 1 August 2019 through 31 July 2022. This …

Jordan VanHemert receives new Co-Op Press award

Jordan VanHemert, Assistant Professor of Music, recently received a new award from the Co-Op Press Commission Assistance Grant Program.  The award will run through 1 December 2020. In collaboration with composer Sy Brandon, Jordan and the Hope College Saxophone Ensemble will develop and perform an original piece of music of five to ten minutes in …

Jason Gillmore receives new award from the Petroleum Research Fund

Jason Gillmore, Professor of Chemistry, recently received a $70,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate Research Grant Program for the project titled Increasing Structural Diversity of Long-Wavelength Azo Dyes to Tune Wavelength and Synthetic Handles.  The project will run from 1 August 2019 through 31 August 2022. This project will increase …