Category Archives: Physics

Hope receives multiple Michigan Space Grant Consortium awards

Congratulations to the 11 Hope College awardees for the 2024 Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) cycle! The awards include four Research Seed grants and seven Faculty-Led Undergraduate Fellowships, totaling $48,000. The awarded projects involve faculty research and collaborative faculty/student research across the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics and Physics. …

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Belen Monteagudo Godoy and Paul DeYoung receive new National Science Foundation award

Belén Monteagudo Godoy, Assistant Professor in Physics, and Paul DeYoung, the Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics and Physics Department Chair, received a new National Science Foundation award for $382,213. The project is titled Collaborative Research: Equipment: MRI Consortium: Track 2 Development of a Next Generation Fast Neutron Detector. The objective of this collaborative proposal …

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Paul DeYoung and Belen Monteagudo Godoy receive new National Science Foundation award

Paul DeYoung, the Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics and Physics Department Chair, and Belén Monteagudo Gody, HFF Teaching Fellow in Physics, received a new National Science Foundation award for $374,577. The project is titled RUI: Nuclear Science with Undergraduate Researchers: Studies of Nuclei at the Extremes and New Applications of Nuclear Techniques. Through this …

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Peter Gonthier receives new National Aeronautics and Space Administration award

Peter Gonthier, Professor of Physics, recently received a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) award via Rice University for $120,414. The project is titled Modeling Hard X-ray Bursts and Giant Flares from Magnetars. This collaborative project will perform detailed numerical computations of X-ray spectra to develop advanced models for both burst and giant flare emissions …

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