At the request of Dr.David Williams, director of “Project Xcite” at Northwestern University (IL), four members of Greenville 's science faculty recently traveled to the Argonne National Laboratory with Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr.Karen Longman to participate in a planning session to develop The Illinois Network for Science Undergraduate Research Experience.

Greenville is the only Christian liberal arts college among a group of “charter” institutions to collaborate with Northwestern University and Argonne Laboratory to help develop a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation. The goal is to involve more freshmen and sophomore students in undergraduate research projects, focusing specifically on chemistry and chemistry-related fields.