Congratulations to these professors! These grants were made possible through alumni gifts to the Alumni Association via the Spark Voluntary Subscription Drive.
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Joel Adams ($636) A Calvin Faculty-Alumnus Research Presentation Tim Brom '07 and Adams will demo the supercomputer Microwulf at the annual ACM SIGCSE conference. |
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Roy Anker ($800) A Pilgrim at Cannes: A Christian Critic Views the Cannes Film Festival This CAA grant supports travel to the Cannes film festival for a look at religious currents in world cinema. |
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Randy Buursma ($2500) Integrating Drama in the Liturgical Elements of Worship This project will create a book and DVD for worship leaders which explains and demonstrates the use of drama in the liturgical elements of worship. The grant funds a student to assist in the production and editing of the DVD. |
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Matthew Kuperus Heun ($5000) Application of Adaptronics to Improve UAV Performance This grant supports adaptronics research on Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Karen Miller ($2500) Variable Production in Brazilian Portuguese Funding supports a student to transcribe Brazilian Portuguese language acquisition data. |
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Bert Polman ($1855) Magnificat Research This grant supports travel for Polman and a student assistant to research musical settings of the Song of Mary (the Magnificat) at other universities. |
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Allen Shoemaker ($1600) Psychology This grant will allow Shoemaker to work with the World Health Organization in Geneva to analyze their child growth data using Trendalyzer software. |
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Kumar Sinniah ($4,500) Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Study of Quadruplex DNAs The CAA grant supports travel to England for Sinniah and a student to be trained on the synthesis of quadruplex DNAs. The broader project studies intermolecular interactions in quadruplex DNA using single molecule force spectroscopy. |
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Ralph Stearley ($2960) Calvin College Paleontology Collection Summer Curationship A student fossil curator will develop skills as a Christian paleontologist while upgrading the utility of Calvin's fossil teaching collection. |
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Helen Sterk ($3300) Women and Leadership in the Christian Reformed Church: Oral Histories Sterk will employ a McGregor student fellow to interview 27 selected people, gathering their stories related to women's church rights. |
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