<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/donors-fund-1m-chemistry-research-grant.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>08/16/2016</pubDate><title>Donors Fund $1M Chemistry Research Grant</title><excerpt>Westmont raised $500,000 of matching funds to complete a challenge grant from the John Stauffer Charitable Trust, endowing the chemistry department’s summer research program. Income from the $1 million endowment will provide a fellowship stipend each year for eight to 10 students to work with chemistry faculty members doing full-time research during the summer. Since 2012, more than 40 individuals and more than a dozen foundations and corporations contributed to match the Stauffer Charitable Trust's grant and build the endowment.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2016/08/PatrickBurreeChem-505x337.jpg" alt="Student Patrick Burree conducts summer chemistry research"/>
        </image><caption>Student Patrick Burree conducts summer chemistry research</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...</description></item>