Recently, NSF released its 2020 Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) for comment by the research community. In the current draft PAPPG (with a tentative implementation in January 2020), NSF will require investigators to generate their biographical sketches through SciENcv. What is SciENcv? SciENcv stands for Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae. The system …
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Anna-Lisa Cox receives the Archie Green Fellowship Award
Anna-Lisa Cox, Visiting Scholar in the Department of History, recently received the prestigious Archie Green Fellowship Award through the Library of Congress. The Fellowship supports research documenting occupational folklife in contemporary America and to generate new and significant digital archival collections. Anna-Lisa will pursue original fieldwork and research on the project titled Multigenerational and First-Generation …
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Barbara Vincensi receives new Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation award
Barbara Vincensi, Associate Professor of Nursing, recently received a $2,500 grant award from the Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation for the project titled Hope College Nurse Managed Wellness Center. The purpose of this award is to support nursing care through health promotion and wellness through regular drop-in health clinics and health promotion activities at Waverly Meadows, …
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Daryl Van Tongeren receives new award from the John Templeton Foundation
Daryl Van Tongeren, Associate Professor of Psychology, recently received a $234,699 grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the project titled Using Intellectual Humility to Navigate Existential Challenges. The project will run from 1 July 2019 through 30 June 2021. The purpose of this project is to explore how intellectual humility in the face of …
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Michelle Gibbs and Susan Ipri Brown receive new PepsiCo Recycling Zero Impact Fund Award
Michelle Gibbs, Director of the Office of Sustainability, and Susan Ipri Brown, Director of ExploreHope and Instructor of Engineering, recently received a $9,979 grant from the PepsiCo Recycling Zero Impact Fund! The project is titled Hope College Hope Advocates for Sustainability: Changing Waste Habits. This award will support several sustainability efforts on campus, including additional …
Robert Hunt receives new Eaton Conservation District – Michigan Arbor Day Alliance Award
Robert Hunt, Grounds Manager, received a new Eaton Conservation District – Michigan Arbor Day Alliance award of $2,000 to support tree plantings here on the Hope College campus. This project will result in 33 new tree plantings on campus. These tree plantings will represent approximately 20 different species of trees, and all will be planted …
Hope students and alumni receive prestigious fellowships!
One Hope student and two Hope alumni received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships in 2019: Garrett Fogo, Rebecca Johnson, and Philip Versluis were selected to receive fellowships in this highly competitive programs–less than 20% of applicants are selected to receive an award. Additionally, five Hope students and alumni received “honorable mentions” for their …
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Strategies for Successfully Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers
A recent article in Ecology and Evolution highlights successfully strategies for successfully mentoring undergraduate researchers. While this appears in an ecology journal, the strategies proposed apply to most academic disciplines that involve faculty-student research experiences (whether in STEM, arts, or the humanities). For example, faculty interested in fostering interest in traditionally underrepresented students in their …
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Tips to Craft Your Proposal Need Statement
The Need Statement of your proposal is the most important sections of your grant–it justifies why you need to complete your project. That’s why it’s so important to get it right–it sets the stage for the remainder of your proposal. Grants.gov has developed an excellent blog post about developing a Need Statement. While it features …
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Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers!
On 12 April 2019, Hope College hosted its annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at the DeVos Fieldhouse. This year, 327 students from 27 departments and programs presented 202 posters! Of course, our Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity is only a piece of the overall dissemination plans of our students’ work. …
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