Faculty proposals funded

September 19, 2022

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

David Carroll, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “WFU Postdoc” has been funded by Streamline Automation, LLC.

Regina Cordy, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “A systems biology investigation of the interplay between gut microbes and blood metabolites in the development of malarial anemia” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Staci Helper, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, whose proposal entitled “Spatio-temporal Methods for Surveillance of the Opioid Syndemic” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy, “Wake Forest Collaborative Application for an APOLLO Clinical Center” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, “OMICS, Mice and Men. Development of Precision Transfusion Medicine” has been funded by the  and the University of Pittsburgh.

Stephen Messier, professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal “Optimizing the value of pain management in knee osteoarthritis patients with comorbidities” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and The Brigham and Womens Hospital, Inc.

James Pease. associate professor of biology, whose proposal “Collaborative Research: Integrating fossils, phylogenomics, and statistical machine learning to reveal population drivers of Cretaceous angiosperm innovations” had been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Karen Singer-Freeman, director of research in the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, whose proposal “Collaborative Research: Building Confidence through Culturally Relevant Co-requisite Mathematics Courses – UNC System Math Pathways for African AmericanCollegiate Transformation (MPAACT)” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and UNC – Charlotte.

Eric Stone, professor of psychology, whose proposal “Collaborative Research: Behavioral Consequences of Excessive Confidence” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Christian Waugh, associate professor of psychology, whose proposal “Investigating the neural systems that support the beneficial effects of positive emotion on stress regulation” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Denver.