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.

The following is a message from President Nathan Hatch: 

While commencement season always brings about a sense of new beginnings and opportunities, it’s also a time to say thank you and bid farewell to many of our friends, colleagues and mentors who have called Wake Forest University home.

Please join me in congratulating and commemorating a marvelous class of Reynolda Campus faculty and staff retiring from Wake Forest this year. We are grateful for the many contributions from this remarkable group of individuals, who together have more than 800 years of service to the University: Continue reading »

The Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at the Porter B. Byrum Welcome and Admissions Center on April 25.

A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature Jac Heckelman, Herman Eure and Donna Henderson.

Heckelman, a professor of economics, will discuss estimating delegate votes and interests at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Eure, a professor of biology, will discuss what is referred to as The Diversity Impact Factor: 398 Years of Observations and Assessments at Wake Forest. Eure will compare Wake Forest’s diversity issues from his arrival on campus in 1973 to those in 2013, while asking, “How does the diversity commitment today differ from the commitment 39 years ago and what can we expect in the future?”

Henderson, a professor of counseling, will discuss adapting processes to an online program delivery and how it has opened dynamic possibilities for the counseling faculty.

Congratulations to Anthony Marsh, professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Project (CLIP II)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 5R18HL076441-07.

Congratulations to Miles R. Silman, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Understanding range limits and plant migration in response to climate change in neotropical montane forests: Moving from observational models to mechanisms” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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.

Wake Forest senior Sean Cusano (’13) and first-year Wake medical student Matthew Martin (BS ’12) examine a team’s bottle rocket.

On Saturday, 179 local middle and high school students competed in a regional Science Olympiad tournament, a track meet-like event that featured 46 different events in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Nine high school and eight middle school teams from Alleghany, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin counties participated.

Wake Forest biology professor Carole Browne served as the Science Olympiad regional director and coordinated more than 40 volunteers from Wake Forest and the Winston-Salem community.

In addition to students from the Reynolda and Bowman Gray campuses, the following faculty and staff also gave of their time to oversee events such as Bottle Rocket, Forensics, Shock Value, Designer Genes and Elastic Launched Glider: Continue reading »

Congratulations to Len Preslar, distinguished professor of practice at the Schools of Business, whose proposal entitled “WFU Schools of Business Biotechnology Conference & Case Competition” has been funded by the NC Biotechnology Center.
 
Congratulations to David J. Anderson, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “LTREB: Evolutionary Ecology of Seabird Reproductive Life Histories” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Congratulations to Miles R. Silman, professor of biology, who had the following proposals funded:

• “Lidar and Radar Interferometry Combined Model to Quantify Variations of Forest Structure and Biomass Along Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropical Montane Forests” has been funded by the NASA and the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) (WFU funding agency).
• “Ecosystem effects and carbon content of Amazonian bamboo-dominated forests” has been funded by the NASA.
• “Reynolda Gardens Piedmont Prairie Restoration: US Fish and Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program” has been funded by the US Fish and Wildlife.

The ACE Fellows Program, in partnership with the Institute for Public Engagement, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Dean of the College, provides support for selected faculty fellows interested in incorporating service-learning into their courses.

The program provides stipends of $1,250 as well as services designed to enhance teaching and enrich learning. ACE Fellows have the opportunity to work with new and veteran ACE Fellows as they establish relationships with community partners, develop syllabi, and assess pedagogical strategies and outcomes.

Here’s a list of the ACE Fellows and the courses in which they plan to integrate service-learning classes: Continue reading »

Congratulations to Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Role of nitrite reduction to NO by hemoglobin in control of fetal vascular tone” has been funded by the National Institues of Health (NIH) and the Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center (WFU funding agency).

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Congratulations to Daniel Griffith, graduate school student of biology, and Todd Michael Anderson, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Graduate Research Fellowship Program” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Congratulations to Eric Stone, associate professor of psychology, whose proposal entitled “Aggregative Contingent Estimation System (ACES)” has been funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and the Applied Research Associates (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Shonda Jones, associate dean of admission and student services in the School of Divinity, whose proposal entitled “Community Engagement Fellows Program” has been funded by the CF Foundation, Inc.

Congratulations to Samuel Cho, assistant professor of physics and computer science, whose proposal entitled “Extrapolating the Concept of Protein Corona for Understanding Nanoparticles at Large” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Clemson University (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Richard Williams, Reynolds professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Quantifying recombination dynamics in Srl2:Eu2+ with material variations: mechanisms and scintillator optimization” has been funded by the US Department of Energy and the Fisk University (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Sarah Raynor, associate professor of mathematics, whose proposal entitled “Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Nonlinear Dispersive Equations” has been funded by the Simons Foundation.

Congratulations to Gloria Muday, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Teaching genetics with tomatoes” has been funded by the American Society of Plant Biologists.