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

1 year
Forrest Earl Allred; Head Horticulturist, Rey Grdns; Facilities & Campus Services

Patrick Donald Borders; Ticket Sales Consultant; Athletics

Christopher Edward Boston; Custodian, 3rd Shift; Facilities & Campus Services

Shan Bernard Brodie; Custodian, 3rd Shift; Facilities & Campus Services

Jenna Lynn Burnham; Admin to Asc Dean for Acad Pln; Dean of Wake Forest College

Randy Scott Casstevens; Assoc Dir Athletics Finance; Athletics

Thomas Anthony Derry; WF Fellow; OPCD

James Leon Farrow; Night Audit Clerk; Graylyn

Trina Nicole Brown Forrest; Custodian, 3rd Shift; Facilities & Campus Services

Berta P. Gardea; Admin Assist, WGS and AES; Women’s and Gender Studies

Jennifer Lane Hoover; Head Coach, Women’s Basketball; Athletics

Ernold Johnson; Day Porter; Facilities & Campus Services

Sam Tony Jordan; Day Porter; Reynolda Village

Sandra Marie Kokkonos; Administrative Assistant; Dean of Wake Forest College

Willie E Lennon; Team Lead, Custodian 1st Shift; Facilities & Campus Services

Brenda Esi McGrail; Admin Assist; Dean of Wake Forest College

Noel Walter Melton; Network Analyst, Sr; Information Systems

Madhavi Sriram; Post Doc Research Assoc; Chemistry

Michael Douglas Terry; Asst Coach, Women’s Basktball; Athletics

Roney Dean Thomason; Custodian (3rd Shift); Facilities & Campus Services

5 years
Keri Nicole Adams; Buyers Assistant; Stores

Mark C. Anderson; Senior Web Content Manager; Advancement

Micheal Shawn Baker; Mews Caretaker; Graylyn

Bethany Lynne Fay; Assoc Dir., Comp. & Benefits; Human Resources

Jordan Irwin Hauser; Program Coordinator; Health & Exercise Science

Paul David Hudson; Police Officer; University Police

Abbie Prescott Wrights; Exercise Coordinator; Health & Exercise Science

10 years
James Michael Everhart; Custodian; Facilities & Campus Services

15 years
Gleda Michelle Hawks; Horticulturist; Facilities & Campus Services

John Davis Henderson; Dir-IS Administration; Information Systems

25 years
Christopher H. Hartsell; Security Officer; University Police

Anne K. Hodges; Dir, Records & Gift Admin; Advancement

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

10 years
Daniel Steven Fogel; Professor of Practice; Schools of Business

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).

Michael J. Hyde and James H. Herrick (eds.) published the book After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future (Baylor University Press, April 2013). Hyde also organized and hosted the conference “After the Genome: The Language of our Biotechnological Future.” The conference was featured in the Winston-Salem Journal and the Triad Business Journal.

John Llewellyn was quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Business News Daily, and USA Today; he was interviewed by Newswise for its “Why Files,” discussing Lance Armstrong’s confession and lying/deception. Llewellyn also published the op-ed “Crossing the Line: Fans Chants of Cruelty” in the Huffington Post.

Allan Louden and Ron Von Burg presented the paper, “Debate, Civic Engagement, and Post-Training Social Networking” at the fourth International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate, and the Pedagogy of Empowerment in Doha, Qatar.

Louden judged at the third annual Frederick Douglass Debate Series at Fayetteville State University.

Ananda Mitra won the Faculty Hobbs Entrepreneurial Achievement Award at Wake Forest’s Entrepreneurship Awards Banquet (read more).

Mitra presented his work on narbs in various lectures and workshops at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia University in India. He is also working with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to recruit students from India. Ananda and Swati Basu also developed a protocol for Hindi-speaking students who are allowed to waive the foreign language requirement.

Mitra presented the paper “Narbs and Profiles: Using Narrative Bits of Social Media to Create an Identity Profile” at the e-Society 2013 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. He also appeared on the “Buckley Report: Parents keep tabs of their kids on Facebook” on Fox8.

Stokes Piercy and Ron Von Burg worked with their students from “Screenwriting” and “Documentary Film” and “Humanity and Nature” to write, produce, perform and record two plays for “Food for Thought” as part of the WFU Earth Day Celebration.

Jennifer Priem was featured in the Wake Forest Parents blog discussing her first-year seminar, “Interpersonal Communication, Stress and Health.” (read more) She was also awarded the Cradle VI Fellowship.

Randall Rogan was quoted in Discovery News and Bloomberg News, answering questions about the Boston bombing. Rogan also discussed the Alabama hostage negotiation on WFMY TV, Greensboro, and was quoted in The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and KFI -AM 640 Radio, Los Angeles.

Alessandra Von Burg discussed the Where Are You From? Project at the Provost’s Thursdays at Byrum and at the Rotary Club in Greensboro, along with MALS student Cindy Rayburn.

Ron Von Burg, Alessandra Von Burg and Allan Louden received a grant from the U.S. Department of State for the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute (BFTF).

Ron Von Burg chaired two panels and presented the paper “What’s the Deal with Liberals? The Discursive Construction of Liberal Political Identity in Conservative Political Humor” at the Eastern Communication Association Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa.

• 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.