2025-2026 Research Fellowship (CRF) Awardees
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Toluwani Adekunle | Public Health | Towards Health Equity |
| Esther Afolabi | Nursing | Cervical Cancer Screening Among New American Women in Grand Rapids Communities: A Needs Assessment |
| Eric Arnoys | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Intracellular Transit of a Glucose Transporter |
| David Benson | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Computer Simulations of Metalloproteins for Research with Undergraduates |
| Rocky Chang | Computer Science | Crowdsourcing Internet Speed Measurement from Multiple Speed Test Platforms |
| Soyeon Chun | SPAUD | Neurophysiological Patterns of Sentence Repetition in Korean-English Bilingual Adults |
| Gayle Ermer | Engineering | Faith and Artificial Intelligence: Disciplinary Perspectives |
| Tyler Greenway | Psychology | Exploring the Impact of Religious Teachings on Goals, Morality, and Emotions |
| Matt Halteman | Philosophy | Food and Transformation: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan |
| Paul Harper | Physics & Astronomy | Structural Dimensions and Densities of Lipids |
| Keagan Johnson | Nursing | Resident Identified Solutions to Low Health Literacy in the Burton Heights Neighborhood |
| Lew Klatt | English | Imagination as Place AND Tranquilizing the Killer B's: Two Essays |
| Sara Leo | Education | Disrupting Lectures: Increasing University Student Engagement Through Faculty Training |
| Debra Rienstra | English | Refugia Church: Manuscript Completion |
| Darrell Rohl | Historical Studies | Umm Al-Jimal Archaeological Project Leadership |
| Fernando Santos | Computer Science | Christian Perspectives on Informationism and Proxy Culture |
| Derek Schuurman | Computer Science | Faith and Artificial Intelligence: Disciplinary Perspectives |
| Suraj Sharma | Business | Communication Norms in Honor, Face, and Dignity Cultures: A CuPS Approach |
| Joe Shin | Philosophy | An Argument for Normative Internalism |
| Laura Smit | Religion | Sensus Suavitas: A Reformed Theology of Beauty |
| James Smith | Philosophy | The Spirit in/of History: The Mackay Memorial Lectures at Taiwan Graduate School |
| Peter Snyder | Business | Values and Institutional Logics |
| Kate Strater | Education | Goal Attainment and Quality of Life through Inclusive College: 6 Years of Progress |
| Chad Tatko | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Synthesis and Evaluation of Non-natural Flourescent Amino Acids |
| David Urban | English | Milton's Orthodoxy: Investigating Trinitarianism and Biblical Fidelity in John Milton's Major Poems |
| Frans van Liere | Historical Studies | A Critical Edition of Andrew of Saint Victor's Commentary on Jeremiah |
| Jennifer VanAntwerp | Engineering | Development of a Faculty Workshop to Foster Belonging in STEM Classrooms |
| Joel Westra | Politics and Economics | Shaping the International Security Order: Institutional Design and Global Security Governance |
2025-2026 Sabbatical Leave of Absence Awardees
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Johnathan Bascom | Geology, Geography, and Environment | Strengthening Geography at Arba Minch University (Ethiopia) |
| Ryan Bebej | Biology | The Transition from Foot-Powered to Tail-Powered Swimming in the Earliest Cetaceans |
| Kevin Corcoran | Philosophy | Consciousness and Its Place in Nature |
| Stacy DeRuiter | Mathematics & Statistics | Making Animal-borne Tag Data Work to Measure Whale and Dolphin Behavioral Responses to Human Sounds at Sea |
| Christopher Hartemink | Engineering | Researching the Environmental Impact of Medical Devices |
| Won Lee | Religion | Contemporary Appropriations of the Bible in 21st Century in Korea: Three Cases |
| Sung Soo Lim | Politics and Economics | Shifting Capital, Shifting the Middle East, Shaping the World |
| Mark Muyskens | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Acid Properties of Fluorescent Coumarin Compounds from Natural and Synthetic Origins |
| Blake Riek | Psychology | Understanding Forgiveness: What Psychology and Theology Can Tell us about Forgiveness and Reconciliation |
| Jill Risner | Business | Blessed are the Marketers: Reflections on the Beatitudes for the Redemption of Social Media Marketing |
| Otto Selles | World Languages | Prophetic Calvinism: Research on Eighteenth-Century French Protestantism and the Multipliers |
| David Smith | Education | Educating for Delight: Recovering Comenius as a Resource for Christian Education |
| Jason Stansbury | Business | The Christian Corporation: Theological, Legal, and Organizational Possibilities |
| Nathan Sunukjian | Mathematics & Statistics | The Geometry of Physics: Symmetry, Conservation, Relativity, and Superposition |