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Faculty Fellowships and promotions

Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty who have been awarded fellowships and recieved promotions.

Wake Forest Faculty Fellowships______________________________

The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship is a program of financial support designed to honor our best teacher-scholars. Recipients are:
Rebecca Alexander (CHM), The F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellowship<
Laura Aull (ENG), The Dunn-Riley Faculty Fund Fellowship
Christa Colyer (CHM), The Robert & Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship
Mary Dalton (COM), The Reinsch/Pierce Family Fellowship
Katy Harriger (POL), The Tatum Family Fund Faculty Fellowship
Omaar Hena (ENG), The Young Family Faculty Fellowship
Peter Kairoff (MUS), The Denton Family Faculty Fellowship
John Pickel (ART), The Hoak Family Faculty Fellowship
Albert Rives (CHM), The Gale Family Faculty Fellowship
Michael Sloan (CLA), The Kenyon Family Faculty Fellowship
Eric Stottlemyer (ENG), The Bitove Family Fund Faculty Fellowship
Robert Whaples (ECN), The Hough Family Faculty Fellowship
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Marsh appointed one of seven Associate Reporters

t_marshWake Forest Law Professor Tanya Marsh has been appointed as one of seven Associate Reporters to work on the first comprehensive Restatement of Property Law for the American Law Institute (ALI).

The Institute, through a careful and deliberative process, publishes restatements of various law and propositions for legal reform. The purpose of a restatement is to provide clarity for courts as to the meaning of different laws. Marsh will have primary responsibility for the volume entitled “Titles and Transfers,” which will tentatively include title recording, real estate transactions and mortgages.

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Marsh elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers

tanya.marsh.300x175Professor Tanya Marsh has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), the premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers.

Admission to ACREL is by invitation only, following nomination and a rigorous peer review process, according to the organization. An election to fellowship is extended only to those with outstanding legal ability who observe high standards of professional and ethical conduct and have contributed substantially to the improvement of real estate law. Members of ACREL are distinguished, nationally-known lawyers who have a minimum of 10 years experience in real estate law.

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Thursdays at Byrum Hall

Thursdays at Byrum HallThe Interim Provost and the Undergraduate Admissions Office invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at Porter B. Byrum Hall (the Welcome and Admissions Center) on April 26.

A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature Ajay Patel, Tanya Marsh and Jim Dunn.

Patel, professor and GMAC Chair in Finance at the Schools of Business and the director of the Center for Enterprise Research and Education (CERE), will share initial findings on CERE’s research in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America, with an economy hobbled by international debt, rickety legal and governmental systems and vast unemployment. Yet at the broad bottom of the economic pyramid, where almost 80 percent live on two dollars a day or less, and just above it, entrepreneurial activity is active, determined and resourceful.

There are many in the national and international domains who would like to see the micro and small enterprises that are percolating in Nicaragua become engines of economic and social change. Wake Forest, which annually sends teams of students from the College, and the Schools of Business, Law, Medicine and Divinity to Nicaragua on educational and service missions, is just one of many groups of students, faculty, companies, NGOs, not-for-profit organizations, and governments who seek to help.

But, what is helpful? What is needed?  What actions foster sustainable growth and change?

CERE set out three years ago to answer these questions though research partnerships in Nicaragua. Faculty associated with CERE crafted and launched part one of a two-part survey that offers interdisciplinary assessments of micro-to-medium sized enterprises. The goals of the longitudinal study are to (1) create a tool that describes the landscape of entrepreneurship at a relatively granular level, and identifies factors that inhibit or promote success, (2) assist in the development of training programs that are effective and culturally appropriate, and (3) train-the-trainers in Nicaragua to ensure that the program is sustainable.

Today at Thursday’s at Byrum, Patel will present findings on:

• the role of gender and education on the career motivations of the entrepreneur in Nicaragua

• access to and use of training and microcredit

• the performance of Nicaragua businesses

• information on why well-intentioned business training programs often miss the mark

Other presentations at Thursdays at Byrum

Marsh, an assistant professor of law, will discuss the tensions between commercialism, regulation, religious belief, and individual choice in the modern American cemetery.

Dunn, chief investment officer, will discuss the Wake Forest Office of Investments.

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