Author Archives: Maggie Shergill

Faculty, staff and students receive multiple MSGC Awards

Congratulations to the seven Hope College awardees for the 2025 Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) cycle! The awards include one Research Seed grant, four Undergraduate Student Research Grants and two Educational Program grants, totaling $57,500. The awarded projects involve faculty research, collaborative faculty/student research and faculty/staff programming across the departments of Biology, Mathematics & Statistics, …

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Chris Turlington receives American Chemical Society award

Dr. Chris Turlington, Associate Professor of Chemistry, received a $70,000 grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund, under the Undergraduate Research program. The specific aims of the project, Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization for the Synthesis of Metallopolymers, are to synthesize poly(carbonate) metallopolymers with pendant metal groups including: 1) Substituted ferrocenes for tunable redox properties, …

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Carla Bos awarded grant from The Allstate Foundation

Carla Bos, Associate Dean of Educational Outreach, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from The Allstate Foundation. The awarded project, Stop the Plastic: It starts wit us, involves you and matters to everyone, is a collaboration between Hope faculty and staff including the Office of Educational Outreach, Office of Sustainability and the Creation Care team, …

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Carla Bos and Kate Lozon receive Michigan OST awards

Carla Bos, Associate Dean of Educational Outreach, and Kate Lozon, Director of CASA and Step Up, have both received awards from the State of Michigan Out-of-School Time program. The awards will support both CASA and Step Up summer programming, as well as support the development of two new summer programs including a 6 week summer …

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Leah Chase receives Campbell Foundation award

Dr. Leah Chase, Professor of Biology, Chemistry and Neuroscience, received a $5,000 grant from The Kenneth H. Campbell Foundation to create The Campbell Foundation Travel Award Program . The proposal was to initiate a student travel award program at Hope College for students involved in neuroscience research. This award will increase access for travel for …

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Gina Kling receives MI-AMTE mini-grant

Dr. Gina Kling, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a $500 mini-grant from the Michigan Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (MI-AMTE) for her proposal, A First Step Towards a Fact Fluency Institute. The project will provide for 25 elementary school teachers to engage in a full day of professional learning around meaningful, research-based techniques for …

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Leah Chase awarded NSF Mid-Career Advancement grant

Dr. Leah Chase, Professor of Biology, Chemistry and Neuroscience, received a National Science Foundation Mid-Career Advancement Award for $269,281 to advance her research program focused on the acute regulation of the cystine/glutamate exchanger, System xc-. The project, MCA Pilot PUI: Use of advanced mass spectrometry techniques to study the regulation of the membrane transporter, System …

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Jeff Johnson receives American Chemical Society award

Dr. Jeff Johnson, Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair, received a $70,000 grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund, under the Undergraduate Research program. The project, Avoiding protodeboronation: Using -carbon elimination to generate organometallics for cross-coupling reactions, aims to develop new methods for the transformation of simple organic starting materials into more complex …

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Chris Turlington awarded Discovery Institute grant

Dr. Chris Turlington, Associate Professor of Chemistry, was awarded $5,720 in funding from the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC) to synthesize water-soluble polymers that increase oxygen solubility in water, with the long-term goal of making artificial blood which would ease the dependence on donations and prevent blood shortages. The Discovery Institute is …

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CASA and Step Up awarded United Way grant

Kate Lozon, Director of CASA and Step Up, was successful in receiving a $6,970 award from United Way for CASA and Step Up educational outreach programming. CASA and Step Up are after-school educational programs that provide academic assistance for underrepresented elementary and middle school students in the greater Holland area. Reaching between 100-130 students annually, …

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