<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2023/national-science-foundation-grant.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>09/11/2023</pubDate><title>Chemistry Professor Receives Prestigious Grant from the National Science Foundation</title><description>A grant for nearly a quarter of a million dollars will create exciting opportunities for Hao Sun, Ph.D., and his students in the laboratory as they conduct impactful research on polymers. They hope their work will address pressing global challenges such as plastic pollution and the depletion of petroleum resources.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>September 11, 2023</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/health-sciences/news/2023/sun-research-group.jpg" alt="The Sun research group in Buckman Hall. From left to right: Dr. Hao Sun; Hayat Khan ’25; Angelo Ritacco ’24, ’25 M.S.; and Tarek Ibrahim ’23 M.S., ’26 Ph.D."/></image><image-caption>The Sun research group in Buckman Hall. From left to right: Dr. Hao Sun; Hayat Khan ’25; Angelo Ritacco ’24, ’25 M.S.; and Tarek Ibrahim ’23 M.S., ’26 Ph.D.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2023</tag></tags></item>