October 4, 2005 == MEDIA ADVISORY
A trio of Calvin College grant proposals has been funded by the National
Science Foundation.
Together those three grants will bring almost $225,000 to the Calvin campus,
funding cutting-edge science instrumentation, advanced mathematics research and
an array of new opportunities for student participation.
The largest grant is $107,132 from the NSF Major Research Instrumentation
program to Calvin scientists Loren Haarsma, John Ubels, Stephen Matheson and
Paul Moes to set up an electrophysiology lab on the college's campus. This is
Calvin's fifth instrumentation grant from NSF in the past eight years.
Haarsma notes that this will be the first lab in the Grand Rapids area which
allows scientists to study the electrophysiology of nerve cells.
In addition mathematic professor Jim Turner has received $73,511 from the NSF
to continue his research on "Interactions Between Homotopy Theory and
Commutative Algebra."
And computer science professor David Laverell has received an NSF grant of
$42,858 to build what is called an Emulab, a lab consisting of 24 personal
computers and a trio of switches which can be configured by software into a
wide variety of dedicated labs. This will be a joint project with the
University of Kentucky.
For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/nsf_grants.htm
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