Phillip Rivera receives International Brain Research Organization Rising Star Award

Phillip Rivera, Assistant Professor of Biology, recently received the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Rising Star Award for his research on biological factors which impact memory. This award includes a grant for approximately $33,000 to use towards this research. Congratulations on your award, Phil!

Susan Ipri Brown receives new Army Educational Outreach Program award

Susan Ipri Brown, Director of ExploreHope and Assistant Professor of Engineering Instruction, received a $16,000 award from the Army Educational Outreach Program via the Rochester Institute of Technology.  This project will support the participation of four high school students in faculty-led research projects at Hope College during the summer of 2023.  Students receive a stipend …

Lindsey Hanson receives new Michigan Arts and Culture Council Award

Lindsey Hanson, Assistant Professor of Dance, recently received a Michigan Arts and Culture Council award for $16,740. The project is titled Untold Stories of Holland: A Cross-Cultural Exchange. Hope College, Third Rail Projects, project partner Latin Americans United for Progress (LAUP), and local Holland residents will create a community-based dance performance based on the real-life …

Susan Ipri Brown receives new awards from the Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation

Susan Ipri Brown, Director of ExploreHope and Associate 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 students from Allegan County to attend a week-long summer program …

Kenneth Brown receives new National Institutes of Health award

Kenneth Brown, Professor of Chemistry, recently received a National Institutes of Health award via Purdue University for $137,225. The project is titled Community-academic partnership to address environmental contamination and health. Dr. Brown, along with two undergraduate researchers, will gather data on the contaminant levels of metals and volitle organic compounds in soil and water samples …

Jennifer Blake-Mahmud receives new National Science Foundation award

Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, Assistant Professor of Biology, recently received a National Science Foundation award for $501,356. The project is titled BRC-BIO: The transcriptomics of environmentally-controlled differentiation into male or female in plants. This project will research a special group of plants that exhibit separate males and females – those for which the environment controls the expression …

Erika Calvo-Ochoa and Nathaniel Vorhees receive new award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience

Erika Calvo-Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, and Nathaniel Vorhees, undergraduate, recently received a $1,000 grant from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Student Travel Award Program. This award funds Nathaniel Vorhees’ participation in the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting, which includes a poster presentation titled “Characterization of the microglial response dynamics in the zebrafish …

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 …

Erika Calvo-Ochoa receives International Brain Research Organization Rising Star Award

Erika Calvo-Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, recently received the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Rising Star Award for her research on the neurodegeneration and regeneration of the zebrafish nervous system. This award includes a grant for approximately $28,000. In celebration of this achievement, our colleagues in Public Affairs and Marketing issued a press …

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 …