Faculty and staff proposals funded

April 19, 2023

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

Natalie Aho, program manager School of Divinity, whose proposal “Reflective Practices for Project Sustainability Grant, has been funded by the Lilly Endowment and Duke University.

Miriam Ashley-Ross, professor of biology, whose proposal “Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Keith Bonin, professor of physics, whose proposal “Chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

George Donati, associate research professor of chemistry, whose proposals “Effect of almond consumption on iron status in inflammatory states” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and UNC Greensboro and “Copper is a Host Effector in Protection Against Urinary Tract Infection” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and Texas A&M Univesity.

Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health & exercise science, whose proposal “Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients with Acute HFpEF – The REHAB-HFpEF Trial” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Natalie Holzwarth, professor of physics, whose proposal “Holzwarth NSF Renewal 2022 Computational Studies of Solid Electrolytes” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy, whose proposal “APOLLO Scientific and Data Research Center Application” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Megan Irby, assistant professor of heath & exercise science, whose proposal “Wake Forest NCORP Research Base” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Eranda Jayawickreme, professor of psychology, whose proposal “Testing the Validity of Improved Measures of Posttraumatic Growth Following Challenging Life Events” has been funded by Psi Chi.

Oana Jurchescu, professor of physics, whose proposal “NSF-DFG: Solvent-free manUfacturing of PERovskite LArge-Scale ElectRonics – SUPER LASER” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, whose proposal, “Antidote for inhaled CO poisoning based on mutationally engineered neuroglobin” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pittsburgh.

Ellen Kirkman, professor of mathematics and statistics, whose proposal “A Study of Undergraduate Programs in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the United States and the Publication of the Results” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Mathematical Society.

John Lukesh, assistant professor of chemistry, whose proposal “New Chemical Tools for Investigating the Biological Significance of Hydrogen Sulfide and Hydrogen Selenide” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Kyle Luthy, assistant professor of engineering,  whose proposal “Avian Tracker Release Development and Evaluation” has been funded by Osa Foundation.

Gary Miller, professor of health & exercise science, whose proposal “Enhancing Undergraduate Education and Research in Aging to Eliminate Health Disparities (ENGAGED)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Michele Myers, assistant professor of education, whose proposal “NCICU’s 31 Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) were provided the opportunity to send two EPP faculty members through a professional development LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) training” has been funded by Goodnight Educational Foundation and North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities.

Paúl Pauca, professor of computer science, whose proposal “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.

Julie Velasquez Runk, associate professor of anthropology, whose proposal “Social and Ecological Determinants of Multi-Host Vector-Borne Infections in Dynamic Tropical Landscapes” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Georgia.

Teresa Sanhueza, associate professor of Spanish, whose proposal “The Immigrant Communities of Florida and José Martí in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century,” has been funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.

Scott Schang, professor of practice at the Wake Forest School of Law, whose proposal “Center for Agriculture and Food Systems National Agriculture Library Subgrant” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Timo Thonhauser, professor of physics, whose proposal “Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Gaseous Mixtures in Nano-Confined Environments” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Xueyuan Vanbastelaer, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal “CRII-SaTC: Robust Explainable Provenance-based Intrusion Detection” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposals “Local delivery of smooth muscle cell targeted aptamer to inhibit neointimal growth and accelerate vascular healing” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.