• Congratulations to Rebecca Alexander, associate professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Dissecting catalytic features of diverse methionyl-tRNA synthetase enzymes” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Congratulations to Patricia Dos Santos, assistant professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Target specificity of cysteine desulfurase in Bacillus subtilis” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

See a list of employment milestones reached by staff in March 2012: Continue reading »

• Congratulations to Len Preslar, the executive director of Health Management Programs for the Schools of Business, whose proposal entitled “2012 Wake Forest Schools of Business Biotechnology Conference and Case Competition” has been funded by the N.C. Biotechnology Center.
• Congratulations to Ron Noftle, professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Low Band-Gap Oligomers and Metal Organic Framework Ligands Based on Thiophene” has been funded by the Dreyfus Foundation.

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George K. Walker

1 Year
Philip Branker Clarke, Assistant Professor, Counseling
Clay Riley Hassler, Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication
Sara Moreno De Nicolas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Romance Languages
Eric Zachary Tucker, Teacher/Sch/Postdoc Fellow, Chemistry

25 Years
S. Douglas Beets, Professor, Schools of Business

40 Years
George K. Walker, Professor, Law

• Congratulations to Patricia Dos Santos, assistant professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Targeting Bacillithiol and Thiol-based Redox Homeostasis in Bacillus Anthracis” has been funded by the N.C. Biotechnology Center and the WFU Health Sciences.
• Congratulations to Paul Pauca, associate professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Analysis of Ultrasound Signal Reconstruction” has been funded by the Boeing Company.

• Congratulations to Jill Crainshaw, academic dean and associate professor of ministry studies at the School of Divinity, whose proposal entitled “Christian Hospitality and Pastoral Practices in a Multifaith Society” has been funded by the Association of Theological Schools.
• Congratulations to Bruce King, professor of Chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Ca093389 — Targeted Nanoparticles for Kidney Cancer Therapy” has been funded by the Army Research Office (ARO) and WFU Health Sciences.

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Paul Gross, who taught from 1959 until 1987, died March 17 in Winston-Salem. He was 91. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 3, at 3 p.m. in the Wake Forest Welcome Center.

For nearly 20 years, Gross was the coordinator of the University’s interdisciplinary honors program. He also served on the first Reynolds Scholarship Committee in 1982 that selected the first recipients of the University’s most prestigious scholarship. Continue reading »

Patricia Dos Santos, assistant professor of chemistry, has received funding from the N.C. Biotechnology Center for her proposal “Novel strategies to develop antibiotic to Gram-positive microbes assemble essential (Fe-S) clusters.”