Hope College

2026–2027 · research · AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of the INSPIRE Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial For Inactive Adolescent Girls

Vicki Voskuil · Hope College · funded by American Heart Association

$182.1kObesity, Physical Activity, Diet

2026–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Ion-beam induced defects to enhance the critical current of high-temperature superconductors

Kyuil Cho · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$250k

2025–2028 · research

Youth hope and flourishing: A holistic perspective in a context of systemic adversity

Kendra Thomas; Samantha Walker · Hope College · funded by John Templeton Foundation

$1M

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

LEAPS-MPS: Explorations in Nonlinear Plasma Physics Phenomena at Hope College

Zachary Williams · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$160.2k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Pulsed X-ray Spectral and Polarization Signals from Magnetar Atmospheres

Peter Gonthier · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$208.4k

2025–2026 · research · Chairman's Awards to Individuals

Profiles in Citizenship: The Women Architects of American Identity

Kirstin Birkhaug · Hope College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$30k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Revealing the Impact of Stimulus Variability on the Stability of Structures Made from Environmentally Responsive Materials

Matthew Smith · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$278.7kAeroelasticity and Vibration Control

2024–2029 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: Detecting warming impacts on carbon accumulation across a climate transect of Michigan peatlands

Michael Philben · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$507.8kPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology

2024–2026 · research · Cottrell Scholar Award

Cottrell Scholar - Meagan Elinski (Chemistry, 2024)

Meagan Elinski · Hope College · funded by Research Corporation for Science Advancement

$120k

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

MCA Pilot PUI: Use of advanced mass spectrometry techniques to study the regulation of the membrane transporter, System xc-

Leah Chase · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$269.8k

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

BRC-BIO: The transcriptomics of environmentally-controlled differentiation into male or female in plants

Jennifer Blake-Mahmud · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$501.4kGenetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Equipment: MRI Consortium: Track 2 Development of a Next Generation Fast Neutron Detector

Paul Deyoung · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$382.2k

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

BRC-BIO: Unraveling mechanisms of neural regeneration and functional recovery in zebrafish

Erika Calvo-Ochoa · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$452.9k

2023–2026 · research

Spiritual Yearning as a Psychological Construct: Associations with Spiritual Struggles and Existential Growth

Daryl R. Van Tongeren · Hope College · funded by John Templeton Foundation

$509.6k

2023 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Exploring Novel Directing Groups for Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylation

Bryan Forrest · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2023 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Extending Computational Chemistry to Larger Systems

Caleb Brzezinski · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2022–2027 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: Mitochondrial Genome Regulation By Nucleoid Proteins Involved in Redox Sensing and One Carbon-Metabolism

Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$540kMitochondrial Function and Pathology

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

BRC-BIO: The effects of nanoparticle matter in air pollution on a sentinel species: House sparrows as the new Canary in the Coalmine

Kelly Ronald · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$502k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Nuclear Science with Undergraduate Researchers: Studies of Nuclei at the Extremes and New Applications of Nuclear Techniques

Paul Deyoung · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$374.6k

2022–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Role of Flexible Design and Instructor Supports in Implementing Sustainable Course-based Research Experiences Across Diverse Institution Types

Michael Pikaart · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$94.1k

2022 · research · Summer Stipends

The Holy Tear of Christ: Visual and Performance Culture at the Benedictine Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme, c. 1150-1550

Anne Heath · Hope College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$6 000

2022 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Substituting novel BF2-azo dyes at the 4-position of the quinoline moiety

Janie Degroot · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2021–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

RUI: Exploring Nonperovskite Phase Growth Mechanisms in Halide Perovskites

Jeffrey Christians · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$238.8k

2021–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Acquisition of a Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research Needs with Undergraduates at Hope College

Natalia Gonzalez-Pech · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$321.4k

2021 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Examining the impact of chronic low dose neutron radiation on sex differences in sociability behaviors, spatial learning, and systemic inflammation in mice.

Corine M. Lafrenier · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2020–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Scholarships, Services, and a Framework of Programmatic Belonging Cues to Improve Undergraduate Student Success in Engineering Majors

Courtney Peckens · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$999.1k

2020–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution LC/MS/MS to Enable Undergraduate Chemical and Biochemical Research Across Six Disciplines in the Natural and Applied Sciences at Hope College

Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$320.5k

2020 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation: ortho-fluoro Pyridyl Ketones in Substitution-Decarbonylation Reactions with Boronic Acids

Eric Salisbury · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2019–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for Undergraduate Chemistry Research and Teaching by the Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C)

Brent Krueger · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$400.4k

2019–2023 · research · R15

Regulation of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase by dietary fatty acids

Virginia M Mcdonough · Hope College · funded by National Institutes of Health

$247kFatty Acid Research and Health

2019–2022 · grant · Continuing Grant

RUI: Nuclear Physics at Hope College With Undergraduates: New Science Enhancing the STEM Workforce

Paul Deyoung · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$240k

2019–2021 · research

Using Intellectual Humility to Navigate Existential Challenges

Daryl R. Van Tongeren · Hope College · funded by John Templeton Foundation

$234.7k

2019–2021 · research · AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award

Regulation of VACM-1/CUL5 signaling in the endothelium by a novel peptide ligand.

Maria Burnatowska-Hle · Hope College · funded by American Heart Association

$154k

2019 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Neurobiology of Light Perception in Poultry to Improve Housing Design and Bird Welfare

Brooke Van Wyk · Hope College · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2018–2022 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Carbon-carbon single bond activation as a route to new organic transformations

Jeffrey Johnson · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$273.9k

2018–2022 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

GENERATING AND SUSTAINING MICROPLASMA WITH MICROWAVES

Hope College · funded by Office of Science

$132.3k

2018–2019 · research · Public Scholars

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Natalie Dykstra · Hope College · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$60k

2018–2020 · research

Understanding the Nature and Consequences of Religious Deidentification

Daryl R. Van Tongeren;C. Nathan Dewall · Hope College · funded by John Templeton Foundation

$234.7k

2018–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Treating Phantom Limb Pain with Electrically Induced Somatosensation

Katharine Polasek · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$282.4kPain Management and Treatment

2018–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

RUI: Mechanisms of regulation of mitochondrial DNA transcription

Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed · Hope College · funded by National Science Foundation

$207.9k