North Central College has been awarded a five-year, $1.45 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. This is the College’s largest NSF grant to date and the fourth major NSF grant awarded to the College in the past two and a half years, totaling more than $3 million in research and programming support for students in the STEM field.

A multifaceted grant proposal to support faculty-student research and prepare students for careers in botany and similar fields garnered major funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).