Hollingsworth Receives National Science Foundation Grant

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Margaret Hollingsworth, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a grant under the National Science Foundation's Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education Program.

Her 18-month grant will support a project titled "Optimization and Characterization of Chloroplast Translation In Vitro."

The NSF program is designed to increase the prominence of women in science and engineering and to enhance their professional advancement by providing them with funding opportunities that are not ordinarily available through regular research and education programs.

Hollingsworth, whose research involves the regulation of gene expression in the chloroplast, is the author of numerous publications, including several book chapters.

She joined UB in 1987 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1993.

Hollingsworth received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

A Robert A. Welch Fellow from 1985-87, she received a Julian Park Publication Award in 1992. She is a member of Phi Lambda Epsilon and Iota Sigma Pi chemistry honor societies.

Hollingsworth lives in East Amherst.