<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/fall-2016/stauffer-challenge-grant-funds-student-research-chemistry.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Stauffer Challenge Grant Funds Student Research in Chemistry</title><excerpt>Westmont raised $500,000 in 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 provides a stipend each year for eight to 10 students doing full-time summer research with chemistry professors. More than 40 individuals and a dozen foundations and corporations helped match the Stauffer Charitable Trust grant and build the endowment.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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