Faculty proposals funded

August 16, 2022

Congratulations to the following Wake Forest faculty members who have had proposals funded.

Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of health and exercise science, whose proposals entitled “Bisphosphonate Use to Mitigate Bone Loss Secondary to Bariatric Surgery” and “Incorporating Nutrition, Vests, Education, and Strength Training in Bone Health (INVEST in Bone Health)” have been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Mollie Canzona, associate professor of communication, whose proposal entitled “Optimizing health-related quality of life measurement in adolescent and young adult oncology: A PROMISing solution” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson, associate professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “RNA Modification and Antibiotic Resistance” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and Emory University.

Courtney Di Vittorio, assistant professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Quantification of Historic and Future Changes in Atlantic Coastal Marshes and Implications for Global Ocean Modeling” has been funded by NASA.

Robert Erhardt, associate professor of math and statistics, whose proposal entitled “Scalable Models, Fast Computation and Predictability for Ordinal Spatio-temporal Data” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Enhancing cognitive function in breast cancer survivors through community-based aerobic exercise training” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Sheri Floge, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: Viral Induced Chemotaxis Mediating Cross-Trophic Microbial Interactions and Carbon Flux” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Amanda Griffith, associate professor of economics, whose proposal entitled “Only the Wealthy? Examining How Monetary and Community Cultural Wealth Translate to Engineering Degree Attainment” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Purdue University.

Staci Hepler, associate professor of math and statistics, whose proposal entitled “Assessing Environmental and Health Impacts of Airborne Particulates” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and Triad National Security LLC.

Sneha Jadhav, assistant professor of math and statistics, whose proposal entitled “Alerting for Time Series Data” has been funded by Last9 Inc.

Shannon Mihalko, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Understanding and Predicting Fatigue, CV Decline and Events After Breast Cancer Treatment” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Lanita (Dani) Parker Moore, assistant professor of education, whose proposal entitled “More than just a seat on a bus. Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civic Action” has been funded by the Library of Congress and Waynesburg University.

Victor (Paúl ) Pauca, professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Rapid Change and Development in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot: A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach to Quantify Terrestrial and Aquatic Impacts and Test Policy Effectiveness” has been funded by NASA and the Trustees of Dartmouth College.

Andrew Proctor, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, whose proposal entitled “Coming out to vote: The political construction of sexuality and gender” has been funded by the American Political Science Association.

Ke Reid, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Investigation of multifunctional proteins that integrate packaging RNPs, RNA export, and translation” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Jessica Richard, associate professor of English, whose proposal entitled “The Maria Edgeworth Letters” has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Freddie Salsbury, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Computational Biosciences Support” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “In vitro evaluation and characterization of peripheral drug-coated balloons” has been funded by Becton, Dickinson and Company.