Calvin Awarded $200,000 NSF Grant

From: Matthew Kucinski <msk23@calvin.edu>
Date: Wed Jan 27 2010 - 15:06:27 EST

Summary: Calvin College has received another National Science Foundation (NSF) award worth more than $200,000, funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009.

The Calvin College science division is the recipient of another NSF grant. The grant totals $208,645 and is the college's third Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) proposal funded within the past 12 months, bringing the total for MRI grants to almost $1 million. (Since July of 2009, the science division has received more than $1.8 million in NSF and NIH grants for science research and equipment).

The project, entitled "MRI-R2: Acquisition of Biophysical Instruments for Interdisciplinary Faculty and Student Research," is under the direction of chemistry professor Kumar Sinniah and his colleagues David Benson and Amy Wilstermann from Calvin College, and Brad Wallar from GVSU.

The award will be used to acquire an atomic force microscope (AFM), isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC), and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). These instruments will be used in an array of chemical and biological investigations to study the binding of protein-protein and protein-ligand complexes from single molecule to bulk ensemble methods.

"The recently funded NSF-MRI grants provide students and faculty access to cutting edge research instruments and will enable them to tackle research problems at the boundaries of biology, chemistry and physics," said Sinniah.

For more info on other Calvin grants funded by ARRA, visit http://www.calvin.edu/archive/news-releases/200908/0004
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