See a list of employment milestones reached by staff in May 2013: Continue reading »

See a list of employment milestones reached by faculty in May 2013: Continue reading »

Dana Hutchens, the employer experience manager in the Office of Personal & Career Development, recently received the Furney K. James Outstanding Service Award from the North Carolina Association of Colleges and Employers (NCACE).

The NCACE Outstanding Service Award recognizes outstanding service rendered to NCACE by a member or former member of the Association. Recognition is for one or more of the following:

• A significant contribution to NCACE through participation on committees or attendance at NCACE functions;
• Demonstrated leadership in NCACE for a significant number of years;
• Development of a new program or concept with a positive impact on the Association.

This summer, the parking lot improvements for Lot Q will close half of the lot at a time.

• The eastern half, entering from Carroll Weathers Drive, will be closed from May 24 through July 1.
• The western half, entering from Allen Easley Street and Aaron Lane, will be closed from July 1 through August 12.

In addition to Lot Q, the parallel parking spaces along Wake Forest Road in front of Lot Q will be closed from May 24 through June 28.

See a map of the closures [PDF] »

Thank you for your cooperation during this construction work.

Questions? Please contact the parking and transportation department at ext. 7275 or cristaj@wfu.edu.

Congratulations to Michael J. Berry, professor and chair of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Early ICU mobility in the critically injured burn patient” has been funded by the US Department of Defense and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).
 
Congratulations to David J. Anderson, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Population size of blue-footed boobies in Galapagos: evaluation of indications of population decline” has been funded by the Galapagos Conservancy.

Lavi Wilson, Wake Forest’s substance abuse prevention coordinator, and the WFU CHOICES program (Cultivating Healthier Opinions In Challenging Everyday Situations) have been awarded a grant from the Stacie Mathewson Foundation (http://www.staciemathewsonfoundation.org/) to support Wake Forest students in recovery.

The goal of the $10,000 grant is to connect these students with existing campus and community resources, provide substance-free social options, and create an on-campus network of support for students who are recovering from substance abuse and addiction.

“This grant is important to our community because it will assist in the support of Wake Forest students recovery by providing confidential assessments and recovery counseling services, educational workshops, seminars, programs, and links for students to on- and off-campus support services,” Wilson said.

Cecil Price, the director of the Student Health Service, said: “Lavi is to be commended for her efforts to help all our students who struggle with substance abuse issues.”

Mary Dalton

Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder published “Teacher TV: Iconic Images of Teachers on American Television” in How “the Teacher” Is Presented in Literature, History, Religion, and the Arts: Cross-cultural Analyses of a Stereotype, eds. Raymond McCluskey and Stephen Mckinney. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 225-236, 2013.

Mary M. Dalton also published the article “Conquer or Connect: Power, Patterns, and the Gendered Narrative” in The Journal of Film and Video, Volume 65, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer 2013, pp. 23-29.

Sandy Dickson, Cindy Hill, Cara Pilson, Mary Dalton and Peter Gilbert hosted the screening of their documentary “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz” here at Wake Forest. They also screened “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz” at The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University; at the 16th UK Jewish Film Festival in London; and at the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival in Hong Kong and Macau.

Nate French and the Magnolia Scholars program received a $6.5 million gift from Dr. Steven and Becky Scott (read more).

Steven Giles, Pankratz, M.M., Ringwalt, C., Jackson-Newsom, J., Hansen, W.B., Bishop, D., Dusenbury, L., & Gottfredson, N. worked on “The Role of Teacher Communicator Style in the Delivery of a Middle School Substance Use Prevention Program,” which will appear in Journal of Drug Education, 42 (4). Continue reading »

• Wanda Brown, associate dean, has been elected member-at-large to the Human Resources Section of Library Leadership and Management Association of the American Library Association.
• Dean Lynn Sutton has been elected as president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries.
• Sarah Jeong, science librarian, was elected to the Board of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.
• Steve Kelley, head of resource maintenance, was elected vice president/president-elect of the North American Serials Interest Group.

Congratulations to Todd Johnson, president of WFU Charlotte Center Board of Visitors, whose proposal entitled “Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing trends” has been funded by the NC Biotechnology Center.
 
Congratulations to Ron Von Burg, assistant professor of communication, whose proposal entitled “Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Institute” has been funded by the US Department of State.

David Hagy, the Wake Forest orchestra conductor, will celebrate his 25th year as the conductor of the Salisbury Symphony on Saturday, May 18, by playing dual roles in a concert at Catawba College. The event will take place at Keppel Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Hagy will lead the orchestra in a “Double Your Fun” concert with pairs and trios, then he’ll break out his violin and accompany Daniel Skidmore, the symphony’s concertmaster, in Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins.

Hagy was featured in the Charlotte Observer and on WFDD.