Mathematics is Focus of Two Grants CAMPUS CURRENT
Grants Benefit Wide Range of Students, Programs SUMMER RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY RECEIVES BOOST
CHEMISTRY Undergraduate research in chemistry received a welcome boost from the John Stauffer Charitable Trust, which donated $150,000 toward Chemistry’s summer research program.
research in chemistry. The goal is to raise $500,000 so that, when fully funded, the Stauffer Challenge will provide a total of $1 million to provide access to summer research opportunities for all chemistry students. Since 1960, when a National Science Foundation grant al-
lowed six HMC chemistry students to undertake research during the summer, the Summer Research Program has grown beyond chemistry to include a second NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and more than 100 research projects annually. Established by prominent Los Angeles industrialist John Stauffer, founder of the Stauffer Chemical Company, the Pasa- dena, Calif.-based
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Chemistry Professor Karl Haushalter (left) and fellow faculty members helped raise funds that were matched by the John Stauffer Charitable Trust.
Stauffer trustees John F. Bradley, Sr., H. Jess Senecal and
Michael R. Whalen presented Dean of Faculty Robert Cave and Chemistry Department Chair Hal Van Ryswyk with a check Sept. 20 during an inaugural meeting with HMC students and faculty. Trustees also visited Professor Karl Haushalter’s chem- istry class.
Haushalter’s HIV research:
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The funds match gifts and pledges raised by HMC faculty, alumni, parents and friends. “We are pleased for the continued support of the John
Stauffer Charitable Trust,” said Van Ryswyk. “They understand the critical importance of a summer research experience in the training of our students, and we gladly accept their challenge to make such opportunities available to all of our students.” In 2008, the Stauffer Trust awarded a matching challenge grant to HMC to establish an endowed fund for student
Trust has been a longtime sup- porter of science education at Southern California colleges and universities.
COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, PHYSICS The Henry Luce Foundation has granted Harvey Mudd College $200,000 to provide scholarships to female students majoring in computer science, engineering or physics. The grant is an affirmation of the College’s priority to increase the representation of women at HMC. The Clare Boothe Luce scholarships will be awarded during the 2012–2013 and 2013–2014 academic years. “We are deeply grateful for this vote of confidence in our
work by the Luce Foundation, which increases the resources at hand for outstanding women students,” said President Maria Klawe. The Clare Boothe Luce Program is the single-largest private source of funding for women in science and engineering.
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