Providing STEM Research Infrastructure for VanderWerf Hall at Hope College

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。该奖项支持翻新希望学院校园内的VanderWerf Hall的研究基础设施。范德沃夫大厅建于1964年，是物理系和数学系的所在地。VanderWerf Hall现在有四个系：计算机科学、工程、数学和物理学。这四个系中的每一个都活跃在原创研究中(约30名教职员工)；每个研究项目都有研究人员与本科生一起工作(每年约50人)。该奖项将加强的研究领域从电沉积磁性薄膜和层状结构的发展到基础核物理到数学生物学等许多领域。这座建筑的研究空间在过去45年里发生了变化，蚕食了教室，安装了足够的设备来进行研究，但缺乏一个连贯的重点来设计，甚至缺乏空间来开展一些部门的研究工作。更新和翻新VanderWerf Hall的科研空间将把狭小、不足的设施改造成更安全的环境，并将通过改善每个人使用研究设施的机会、允许更多的设备使用以及允许本科生更多地接触研究来扩大对研究的参与。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award supports the renovation of the research infrastructure of VanderWerf Hall on the campus of Hope College. VanderWerf Hall was constructed in 1964, housing the departments of Physics and Mathematics. VanderWerf Hall now houses four departments: Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. Each of these four departments is active in original research (about 30 faculty members); each research program involves researchers working with undergraduate students (about 50 per year). The research areas to be enhanced by the award range from development of electrodeposition of magnetic thin films and layered structures to fundamental nuclear physics to mathematical biology, among many others. The building's research space has evolved over the last 45 years, cannibalizing classrooms and installing enough equipment to perform research, but lacking a cohesive focus to design and even space for some departmental research efforts. Updating and renovating the scientific research spaces in VanderWerf Hall will transform cramped, inadequate facilities into safer environments and will broaden participation in research by improving access by everyone to research facilities, allowing increased use of equipment, and allowing increased access to research by undergraduate students.