Faculty books: May 2020
Gladding, Samuel T. (Counseling). Off the Courthouse Square: A Memoir. Library Partners Press. 2020.
Shapiro, Sidney A., & Joseph P. Tomain. (Law). Regulatory Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, 4th edition. Carolina Academic Press. 2020.
Soares, Joseph A., Ed. (Sociology). The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT & ACT. Teachers College Press. 2020.
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU
Proposals funded: McDonald, Johnson, Brown, Ballard
Congratulations to Sarah McDonald, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Roto Virus” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Congratulations to Dan Johnson, professor of teaching in biology, whose proposal entitled “Improving Scientific Writing in STEM Classrooms: A Training Program for Students and Teaching Assistants Aided by Information Extraction Technology” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Hana Brown, associate professor of sociology, whose proposal entitled “Enforcement or Embrace? The Determinants of State-Level Immigration Policy in New Immigrant Destinations” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Notre Dame.
Congratulations to Grey Ballard, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Scalable MTTKRP for Non-Negative Tensor Factorization” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy-DOI and UT-Batelle, LLC.
Categories: Faculty News
WFU law school to host discussion on community/police tension
A campus-wide discussion, “Close to Home: Comprehending Community/Police Tension in Charlotte,” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight, Sept. 28, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312.
The event is free and open to the public. A live webcast will be available here.
A panel discussion from 5 to 6:30 p.m. focusing on recent events of police brutality and public unrest — including last week’s police shooting in Charlotte and the subsequent riots — will be followed by a student leadership roundtable and small group discussions. Light refreshments will be served.
Categories: University Announcement
