• Congratulations to Michael J. Berry, professor and chair of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Standardized Rehabilitation for ICU patients with Acute Respiratory Failure” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).
• Congratulations to William W. Fleeson, professor of psychology, whose proposal entitled “Integrating Process and Structure in Borderline Personality Disorder” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

• Congratulations to Anthony P. Marsh, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Physical Exercise to Prevent Disability Pilot Study – LIFE Field Center” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Congratulations to William E. Conner, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Acoustic Aposematism, Mimicry, and Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Professor Jeffrey Katula gave an invited presentation at the National Institutes of Health Dissemination and Implementation Conference in Bethesda, Md., on March 19-20 on the Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD) project.

HELP PD, funded by NIH, is a community-based diabetes prevention program that is delivered by community health workers.Katula collaborates with Michael Lawlor (economics), David Goff (epidemiology), Mara Vitolins (epidemiology), and Tim Morgan (biostatistics) on this project.

Tony Marsh

Jack Rejeski

Congratulations to Walter J. Rejeski and Tony Marsh, professors of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Project (CLIP II)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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• Congratulations to Richard T. Williams, Reynolds professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Physics of Scintillator Nonproportionality” has been funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• Congratulations to Walter J. Rejeski and Tony Marsh, professors of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Project (CLIP II)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

• Congratulations to T. Michael Anderson, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research:  Mechanisms of tree recruitment limitation across a savanna soil moisture availability gradient Date Submitted” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Congratulations to Patricia Nixon, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Pre-natal Events, Post-natal consequences II (Competitive Renewal)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).

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• Congratulations to Steve Messier, professor of Health & Exercise Science and director of the J. B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory, whose proposal entitled “Strength Training and Arthritis Trial (START)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Congratulations to Jack Rejeski, professor of Health & Exercise Science, whose proposal entitled “Look Ahead” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and WFU Health Sciences.