Roger Baumann receives new award from the Social Science Research Council

Roger Baumann, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has received a $17,960 award from the Social Sciences Research Council Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship Program.  The project is titled American Evangelicals, Islam & the Competition for Religious Authority. This project will analyze evangelical Christian leaders and their positions on Islam and Muslims and how they are …

Charlotte Witvliet featured on The Hidden Brain

Charlotte Witvliet, the Lavern ’39 and Betty DePree ’41 VanKley Professor of Psychology, was recently featured on The Hidden Brain! Dr. Witvliet was featured due to her research on the benefits of forgiveness, for both your mind and body. To listen to Dr. Witvliet’s episode, titled The Power of Mercy, please visit: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EqtCJlhcnSlPhOjxs9CRm?si=WaCLkk5STW-uryECATOUKg&dl_branch=1. KUDOS on …

Trygve Johnson receives new award from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Trygve Johnson, The Hinga Boersma Dean of the Chapel, has received a $12,150 award from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship 2021 Worshipping Communities Grant Program.  This project will explore the content and metaphor of spiritual friendship as it relates to worship practices and justice in order to promote continued spiritual growth for our student …

Deborah Van Duinen receives two new awards in support of The Big Read and The Little Read

Deborah Van Duinen, Associate Professor of Education, received a National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest award for $20,000 in support of the 2021 Big Read and $15,000 from the Michigan Humanities Council/National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the 2021 Little Read. Read more about our latest award in the official press release. Congratulations, …

Marsely Kehoe receives new Samuel H. Kress Foundation award

Marsely Kehoe, Grants and Training Manager in the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs, has received a $34,000 award from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Digital Arts History Grants Program.  Carrie Anderson, Assistant Professor of Art History at Middlebury College, is a co-principal investigator.  The project is titled Visualizing Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global …

Kelly Ronald and Sarah Grimes receive new Garden Club of America award

Kelly Ronald, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Sarah Grimes, Biology Undergraduate, received a $3,000 award from the Garden Club of America Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Through this fellowship, Sarah will work with her mentor, Dr. Ronald, to understand how the auditory and visual sensory physiology of the house sparrow are impacted by anthropogenic disturbances. Congratulations, Sarah, …

Susan Ipri Brown and Michelle Gibbs receive new Great Lakes Fishery Trust award

Susan Ipri Brown, Director of ExploreHope and Assistant Professor of Engineering Instruction, and Michelle Gibbs, Director of the Office of Sustainability, received a $43,544 award from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust Great Lakes Stewardship Program. The project is titled Nurturing Stewardship Through Peer Mentoring. This project will partner Hope College students with local K-12 students …

NSF’s Five Tips for “Broader Impacts” Statements

Considering a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF)? NSF’s Science Matters blog featured five tips for applicants in preparating their Broader Impacts Statements–an essential component of any NSF proposal. There is no one size fits all approach to Broader Impacts; it looks different for each project. But in this blog post, NSF Program Officers …

Hope College Receives 18 New Michigan Space Grant Consortium Awards

Faculty, staff, and students from Hope College received 18 new Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) awards totaling $78,485 for 2021-2022!  Details regarding the individual projects appear below.  MSGC creates, develops, and promotes programs to reflect the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) strategic interests and support cooperation between academia, industry, state and local governments in …

Erika Calvo-Ochoa receives new Kenneth H. Campbell Foundation award

Erika Calvo-Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, has received a $20,000 award from the Kenneth H. Campbell Foundation Research Grants Program.  The project is titled Establishment of a novel model of retrograde degeneration in zebrafish to study olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. This project seeks to establish a novel model of retrograde neural degeneration …