In 1998, Calvin University received a grant from the Detroit-based McGregor Fund to establish a program of student fellowships for summer research with faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The resulting McGregor Fellowship program has funded collaborative student-faculty research since 1999. Although the original McGregor investment has been exhausted, the program operates with the generous support of private donors and continues to attract Calvin's "best and brightest" students and faculty to collaborative research projects.
- McGregor Program Process
- Program Director Responsibilities
- 2024 McGregor Mentor Expectations and Responsibilities
- Past McGregor Fellows and Faculty
2023 McGregor Summer Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Sciences
Student | Faculty Mentor | Project Title |
Jacob Foll | Mark Bjelland, Geology, Geography, and Environment | Post-Industrial Spaces: The New Inner City and What Was Left Behind |
Samuel Fynewever | Abraham Ceballos-Zapata, World Languages - Spanish | The Language Ecology of English Language Teaching in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Ethan VanOrman | Kevin den Dulk, Political Science | Restorative Justice for Returning Citizens: A Mapping Project | Benjamin Enos, Micah Machiela, and Adham Rishmawi | Michael Dirksen, Political Science | Leading on Lead Pipe Removal: A Cross-Municipal Evaluation of Michigan's Novel Lead Service Line Replacement Program |
Elisabeth Stevens | Kristin Du Mez, Historical Studies | Live Laugh Love: A Cultural History of White Christian Womanhood | Isaac Bos | Herb Fynewever, Chemistry & Biochemistry | Interaction of Public Policy and the Practice of Chemistry in Society |
Haley Prell | Craig Hanson, Visual and Performing Arts; and Jamie Skillen, Geology, Geography, and Environment | Understanding Calvin's Knollcrest Campus, Part 2: The East Campus |
Yoseob Lim and Gynelle Sackie-Mensah | Sung Soo Lim, Economics | Aspirations of Nations for the Post-Fossil Fuel Era | Jenna Allman | Mark Mulder, Sociology | Antiracism in a Progressive Mainline Denomination |