Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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Hope - Science: the words at times are synonymous. Why? The professors? Part- ly. The undergraduate program? Partly. The students? Partly. All three? Undoubt- edly. By allowing students to work experi- mentally in their fields of concentration under the tutorage of capable and inspir- ing professors, Hope College has gained an enviable reputation in the realm of undergraduate scientific education. This year biology maiors are making slide se- ries on chick embryos, blood, and frog tissues, chemistry maiors are researching in the synthesis of thiophene compounds, and physics maiors are experimenting with transistors and electronic circuits. One other proiect of all three departments is the construction of a cyclotron, which was begun this year' with a five hundred dollar research grant from CIBA. The professors of the Department of Biology have been doing individual re- search with the intent of publishing papers on their subiects. The Chemistry Depart- ment received many honors this year among which was the accrediting of the department by the American Chemical So- ciety. 1 l vinuli-f' A ' -t .:... -Q ,.VAV,, E . .. .. ', 1' ' J Q 9,-.ggmg-3',, tg ' ,,,'.' L Tl-IE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Q00 A twenty-five hundred dollar grant from the Research Corporation was grate- fully accepted. This yearly grant has al- lowed the Chemistry Department to pub- lish ten papers since the inception of the grant in l948. Also received were a twenty-five hundred dollar grant from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a one thousand dollar scholarship from the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Dr. Van Zyl has also been honored in being chosen as a lecturer for the American Chemical 5ociety's Division of Chemical Education and Nation Science Foundation conference to be held at the University of Wyoming this summer. The Physics De- partment is expanding to give the students a larger experimental background. Mr. Kleis has been elected a member of the Ford Foundation's Educational Study Com- mittee and Mr. Frissel will receive his doc- tor's degree in nuclear physics this summer. One brief look over the graduates of these departments will show the results of Hope's science program. Who is the grad- uate? He is the best medical student, the most renowned doctor, the creative chem- istry student, the director of a chemical re- search firm, the reflective nucleonics stu- dent, the researcher into the forces of the atom. This is why the name Hope and the word science are often synonymous.

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