<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2022/hao-sun-grant.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>12/01/2022</pubDate><title>Chemistry Professor Earns Prestigious Grant to Support Polymer Research</title><description>Hao Sun, Ph.D., recently became the first University of New Haven professor to receive the highly competitive Undergraduate New Investigator Grant from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund. He looks forward to the hands-on opportunities the award will create for him to work with his students as they explore solutions to the problem of plastic pollution.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>December 1, 2022</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2022/hao-sun-group-1.jpg" alt="Dr. Sun with students"/></image><image-caption>Dr. Sun is discussing the project with students. From left to right: Tarek Ibrahim '23 M.S., Dr. Hao Sun, Kyle Rocha '24 M.S., and Farbod Shirinichi '23 M.S.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2022</tag></tags></item>