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Faculty Recognitions*William Polik Named ACS Committee Chair February
6, 2006 Polik, who is the Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Professor of Chemistry at Hope, has been a member of the committee since 2000, and served as vice-chair during the past year. His service as chair begins with the first ACS meeting in March of this year and will continue through 2008. Founded in 1876, the ACS has more than 158,000 members in industry and education. The society's activities include promoting public understanding of chemistry through outreach programs, fostering communication between chemists and related organizations, and assisting in the professional and career development of chemists. *Hope professor creates 'custom' textbook for computer students Monday, January 2, 2006 Hope College professor Ryan McFall didn't write his textbook for his computer class he teaches, but he created it. By using the Internet, he took parts of several textbooks to create the curriculum he wanted for his applications programming class. It's his own custom-made book. "I have five different books of which I was able to pull material for this course," McFall said. READ
THE FULL HOLLAND SENTINEL STORY *Hope Researchers Participate in NASA Project December 6, 2005 Researchers from HopeCollege are participating in a NASA project aimed at understanding the nature of pulsars. Dr. Peter Gonthier, who is a professor of physics, and his Hope student researchers are part of a NASA-based team that has been seeking to better understand how pulsars, which are highly compact collapsed stars, produce high-energy gamma rays. The team's project, "High Energy Emission from Pulsar Magnetospheres," recently received a three-year, $341,147 grant from the NASA Astrophysics Theory Program. The team is headed by Dr. Alice Harding, who is on the staff of the Exploration of the Universe Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. In addition to Gonthier, who has been conducting research with Harding since 1992, co-investigators on the team also include researchers from the Pentagon, RiceUniversity and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. *Ed Hansen Elected President of Statewide Academy November 2, 2005 Dr. Edward Hansen, professor of geology and environmental science at Hope College, has been elected president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. He began his term in October, and will serve until mid September in 2006. "Ed's election speaks of his recognized scientific accomplishments and scholarly leadership in the state of Michigan," said Dr. Jonathan Peterson, who is an associate professor of geology environmental science and chairperson of the department at Hope. *Hope will be New Home for Supercomputer!!! Thursday, August 25, 2005 Hope College soon
will be home to West Michigan's largest supercomputer, but it won't need
a cavernous room to house it. But those two racks will be one set of powerful computers, said Will Polik, a professor of chemistry at Hope. "We're really excited about this," Polik said READ
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