• 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).

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• Congratulations to Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor in physics, whose proposal entitled “The Effects of Selective Adenosine A2B Receptor Antagonist GC-6201 on Adensine-induced Red Blood Cells Sickling in SCD Patients” has been funded by the Gilead Sciences, Inc., and the University of Pittsburgh.
• Congratulations to Will Fleeson, the Ollen R. Nalley professor of psychology, whose proposal entitled “Integrating Process and Structure in Borderline Personality Disorder” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

• Congratulations to David Carroll, the director of the Center for Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials, whose proposal entitled “PF-DT Woled Development” has been funded by CeeLite Technologies, LLC.
• Congratulations to Eranda Jayawickreme, research associate in psychology, whose proposal entitled “What Are the Real Benefits of Hardship: Examining Possibilities for Behavior Growth Following Adversity” has been funded by the Templeton Foundation.

Lisa Kiang, assistant professor of psychology, received the 2011 Emerging Scholar Best Article Award from the Journal of Youth and Adolescence (JYA) for her article, “Change in Ethnic Identity Across the High School Years Among Adolescents with Latin American, Asian, and European Backgrounds.”

The study tracked changes in ethnic identity among ethnically diverse adolescents during the four years of high school.

Kiang found that there was a lot of change exhibited among individual adolescents but, when examined as a group (as most studies have done in the past), the individual change was obscured.

“We also found that increases in ethnic identity were associated with increases in family closeness, having more same-ethnic peers, and feeling like ethnicity is central to who you are,” Kiang said.

The award was announced in the December issue of JYA.

• Congratulations to Lisa Kiang, assistant professor of Psychology, whose proposal entitled “Physiological reactivity to discrimination among African, Asian, and Latin American youth” has been funded by the American Psychological Foundation.
• Congratulations to Bill Conner, the faculty director for the Program for Innovation, Creativity &  Entrepreneurship, whose proposal entitled “Student Ambassador Program” has been funded by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance.

Professor Emeritus of Psychology Robert C. Beck, whose 50-year tenure ranks as one of the longest in Wake Forest history, has died. Beck, who retired two years ago, died on Aug. 18 in Winston-Salem after a brief illness. He was 79. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Wait Chapel. Continue reading »