Meagan Elinski, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, recently received a $55,000 award from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate New Investigator Program. The project is titled Role of Hydrocarbon Chemical Structure in Composite Film-Forming Surface Reactions. This project will explore the impact of lubricant chemical structures on composite film formation, which form the basis …
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Sonja Trent-Brown receives new award for TRHT Campus Center
Sonja Trent Brown, Chief Officer for Culture and Inclusion, recently received a $25,000 award from the Association of American Colleges & Universities Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center Grant Program. This award will establish a TRHT Center at Hope College, with the overall goals of infusing an anti-racist narrative in our existing academic, …
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Deborah Van Duinen receives new award from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Deborah Van Duinen, Associate Professor of Education, recently received a $2,500 award from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Youth Literacy Grant Program. The project is titled Big Read Lakeshore: Improving Adolescents Attitudes Toward Reading. With this award, participating English teachers in The Big Read who work with students reading below grade level will receive curricular/instructional …
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Stephen Scogin and Susan Brondyk receive new award from the Outdoor Discovery Center
Stephen Scogin, Associate Professor of Biology and Education, and Susan Brondyk, Irwin B. and Margie E. Floyd Associate Professor of Education, recently received a $9,965 award from the Outdoor Discovery Center. The purpose of this project is to investigate school-based, elementary outdoor educational programming in West Michigan. Congratulations, Stephen and Susan, on your new award!
Reagan Chesnut and Erik Alberg receive new National Endowment for the Arts award
Reagan Chesnut, Associate Managing Director of the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (HSRT), and Erik Alberg, Director of Design and Production for the Performing Arts, recently received a $10,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects Program. The project is titled To support the purchase of sound amplification equipment and administrative …
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Susan Ipri Brown receives new award from the Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation
Susan Ipri Brown, Director of ExploreHope and Assistant Professor of Engineering Instruction, received a $4,000 award from the Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation Grants Program. The project is titled ExploreHope College Preview. Through this award, ExploreHope will provide the transportation and tuition for low-income high school sophomores and juniors to attend a week-long summer program at …
Alyssa Cheadle and Amy Osterbaan receive new Psi Chi award
Alyssa Cheadle, Assistant Professor Psychology, and Amy Osterbaan, undergraduate student, received a $1,240 award from the Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Program. The project is titled The Impact of Religious Disaffiliation on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes. The purpose of this project is to expand the research on religious disaffiliation with regard to health behaviors and …
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Natalia Gonzalez-Pech receives new National Science Foundation award
Natalia Gonzalez-Pech, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has received $321,363 award from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. The project is titled MRI: Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research Needs with Undergraduates at Hope College. Benjamin Kopek, Associate Professor of Biology, Jeff Christians, Assistant Professor of Engineering, and Michael …
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Brooke Odle receives American Society of Biomechanics Up and Comer Award
Brooke Odle, Assistant Professor of Engineering, has been named an American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) Up and Comer! The purpose of the ASB Up and Comer award is to recognize outstanding faculty in the field of biomechanics—not only their past contributions but also their strong potential to influence the field. With this award, Dr. Odle …
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Jeff Christians receives new National Science Foundation award
Jeff Christians, Assistant Professor of Engineering, has received a $238,828 award from the National Science Foundation. The project is titled RUI: Exploring Nonperorskite Phase Growth Mechanisms in Halide Perovskites. The purpose of this project is to explore how to better develop halide perovskites for long-term durability for use in the next generation of photovoltaics. This …
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