Chemistry Haiku:
"Academia
Has never seen
the likes of
Chemist’s
together"
-Chemistry
Student

Congratulations to our recent 2009 graduates!
This May, seven students graduated with a Chemistry Major and 12 students graduated with a Biochemistry Major. Several of our graduates are continuing their education at a variety of graduate schools including the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan as well as a number of medical schools. Other students are pursuing a career in science education or in the industrial setting as a researcher .

Each Goldwater Scholar is awarded $7,500 for each of two successive years to help with tuition, fees, books and room and board.

The fact that the Calvin’s Goldwater winners represent four different disciplines—physics, chemistry, biochemistry and mathematics—is a great compliment to Calvin’s overall excellence in the sciences.

Each scholar will make a research proposal, work independently to complete the research project and, eventually, publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal. The culmination of the project for each scholar is a special summer gathering in California where the Beckman Scholars will make presentations of their work.

Summer Chem Camps - We are now accepting registrations for our Summer Chem Camps. These camps are designed for students entering 6th, 7th or 8th grade and feature demonstrations and many hands-on experiments designed to teach introductory chemical concepts in a way that is fun and entertaining

Recent Grant Awards

• Professor Chad Tatko was a recent recipient of a Research Corporation-Cottrell College Science Award for $42,225 which will support 2 years of research.

• Congratulations to Professor Dave Benson who was recently awarded a $289,217 grant from the Office of Naval Research which supports his research in Semiconducting Nanoparticle-based Biosensors for Stochastic Analyte Detection.
  
  
• Professor Crystal Bruxvoort obtained a supplemental NSF grant for $99,968 that will expand on the research the Science Education Group is conducting in conjunction with Team Researchers in a GLOBE-al Environment (TRIAGE). These supplemental funds brings the total award to $821,722.
  
  
• Calvin College is the recipient of a 2008 Beckman Foundation Beckman Scholars Award in the amount of $77,000 to support the research efforts of four outstanding students from the Department of Biology and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry over the next three years.