Congratulations to Gary D. Miller, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Increased Plasma Nitrite, Tissue Oxygenation and Functional Changes in PAD” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 1560532138A1 and the Duke University (WFU funding agency).

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Congratulations to Jeffrey Katula, assistant professor of health and exercise science, and Michael Lawlor, professor of economics, whose proposal entitled “HELP PD II” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number RG0742 and RG0983 and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to David Carroll, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Organic Thermoelectrics: the matrix composite approach“ has been funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Texas A & M Engineering Experiment Station (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Gary D. Miller, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Dietary Nitrate to Augment Exercise Benefits” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under subaward number 203-2819 and the Duke University (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Oana Jurchescu, assistant professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Career: Fundamental Limits of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

From left: Sarah Mason, Grace Wetzel, Christa Colyer, Cynthia Gendrich, Jack Dostal

Every year the Teaching and Learning Center honors up to five faculty for innovations in their teaching. This year’s winners span the sciences, the arts, literature and mathematics, but all share the dedication to teaching and the willingness to take risks that result in better student learning.

Find out more about the innovative work of Christa Colyer (chemistry), Cynthia Gendrich (theater), Grace Wetzel (English), Jack Dostal (physics), Stewart Carter (music) and Sarah Mason (mathematics).  Continue reading »

Congratulations to Walter J. Rejeski, 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 David Carroll, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “PT-DT WOLED Development” has been funded by the CeeLite Technologies. LLC.
 

Congratulations to Freddie Salsbury, associate professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Targeting the MSH2-dependent Apopototic Pathway” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 5R01CA129373-05.
 

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 »

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

1 year
Sara Rachel Chaney; Financial Assistant; Residence Life & Housing

Mitchell Cameron Currin; Asst Director, Member Services; Athletics

Michael Ray Dellinger; Turf Technician I; Athletics

Jeffrey Mark Hucks; Sr. HRIS Analyst; Human Resources

Andrew Michael Imboden; Coordinator of Housing; Residence Life & Housing

Derrick Todd Jackson; Assistant Coach, Football; Athletics

Vito Michael LaBruzzo; Ticket Sales Consultant; Athletics

Linda Fay Lyons; Parking Enforcement Officer; Facilities & Campus Services

Melissa Marie Ryon; Administrative Assistant; Office of Personal & Career Development

Justin E Sizemore; Environmental Hlth & Sfty Tech; Facilities & Campus Services

Scott Allen Smith; Police Officer; University Police

Darrell Alan Southern; Ticket Sales Consultant; Athletics

Terri Lynne Sparks; Administrative Assistant; Sociology

Sharonna Ethel Taylor; Academic Counselor; Dean of Wake Forest College

5 years
Kenneth A. Basch; Exec. Director; Real Estate

Tara Marie Brown; Director of Administrative Ops; Schools of Business

Monique Shanee Clark; Break Attendant; Graylyn

Angela Ammons Culler; Asst VP, HR Services; Human Resources

Pendred Keller Dietz; Dir, Off. of VP Univ Advancmnt; Advancement

Stephen W. Fisenne; Associate Director, EHS; Facilities & Campus Services

Billy B. Goff; Lead Transportation Assistant; Graylyn

Tamara Christina Hampton; Administrative Assistant; Schools of Business

Brian K. Knorr; Assistant Coach, Football; Athletics

Debra Denise Lane; Custodian; Facilities & Campus Services

David Wayne Moser; Maintenance Technician; Graylyn

Notori D. Patterson; Housekeeper; Graylyn

Kimberly Kay Urquhart; Assistant Manager, Deacon Shop; Stores

10 years
Jason B. Bennett; Warehouse Merchandise Asst; Stores

Thomas Williams Elrod; Assistant Coach, Football; Athletics

John Charles Noble; Guest Services Manager; Graylyn

15 years
Kamil Burak Ucer; Research Associate Professor; Physics

20 years
Hazel J. Daniels; Custodian; Facilities & Campus Services

Congratulations to Robert James Plemmons, Reynolds professor of math, whose proposal entitled “Comprehensive Space-Object Characterization using Spectrally Compressive Polarimetric Imaging” has been funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the University of New Mexico (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Richard T. Williams, Reynolds professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Physics of Scintillator Nonproportionality” has been funded by the US Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Timothy N. French, Magnolia Scholars program director, whose proposal entitled “Summer Bridge” has been funded by the NC Independent Colleges and Universities.

Patricia Dos Santos waits to receive her award.

The Wake Forest community gathered together for Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 21 to celebrate the University’s founding in 1834 and the accomplishments of faculty and alumni in teaching, research and service.

Faculty awards are listed below:

• Rhoda B. Billings (JD ’66), who was a professor at the School of Law from 1973 to 2003, won the Medallion of Merit, the University’s highest honor.
• Music professor Louis R. Goldstein won the John Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching.
• Assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu won the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
• Assistant professor of chemistry Patricia Dos Santos received the Award for Excellence in Research.
• Anne Boyle, professor of English and associate dean for student-faculty academic initiatives, received the Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service.
• Ken Zick, vice president and dean of student affairs and professor of law, was awarded the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award.
• Associate professor of legal writing Tracey Banks Coan was presented the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award.

To find out more about Convocation, the awards and those who won then, see the Wake Forest News Center »

Congratulations to Martin Guthold, associate professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Lab-on-Bead Enabled Next-Generation Sequencing for Cancer Drug Discovery” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number I R43 GM102987-01 and NanoMedica LLC (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Freddie Salsbury, associate professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Targeted Approach to overcoming treatment resistance in advance prostate cancer” has been funded by the US Department of Defense and the Georgia Southern University (WFU funding agency).

Congratulations to Louis Roniger, Reynolds professor of politics and international affairs, whose proposal entitled “Exile, Transnational Migration and the Transformation of Public Culture: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay” has been funded by the BiNational Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Oana Jurchescu, assistant professor of physics, who had the following proposals funded:

• “Spintronics for Novel Device Application and Metrology Advancement” has been funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• “High-Conductivity in Binary Organic Single Crystals for Electronic Applications” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the UNC-Chapel Hill (WFU funding agency.
• “NSF-NIST collaborative research on electrical and optical properties of novel binary donor-acceptor compounds” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the UNC-Chapel Hill (WFU funding agency).
• “Graduate Research Fellowship Program” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). (proposal with Jeremy Ward, graduate student in physics)