Faculty and staff proposals funded

Congratulations to the following Wake Forest faculty and staff members who have had proposals funded in April and May 2023.

Paul Anderson, professor of physics, whose proposal “Studies of Quantum Effects Related to Black Holes and the Early Universe” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Grey Ballard, associate professor of computer science, whose proposal, “Communication-Avoiding Tensor Decomposition Algorithms,” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of Health and Exercise Science, whose proposals “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.

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.

Minghan Chen, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal “NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2023 International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC)” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Patricia Clayton, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal “Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Experimental Facility with Large, Mobile Dynamic Shakers for Field Testing 2021-2025” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Texas (Austin.)

Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal “REmotely-delivered Supportive Programs for Improving surgical pain and disTrEss (RESPITE)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health wand WFU Health Sciences.

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

Staci Hepler, associate professor of statistical sciences, whose proposal “Assessing Environmental and Health Impacts of Airborne Particulates” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy and bioethics, health and society, whose proposal ” Dana Foundation Center for Neuroscience and Society Planning Grant” has been funded by the Dana Foundation and WFU Health Sciences.

Jeffrey Katula, professor of health and exercise sciences, whose proposal “Strategic Grant – U.S. POINTER Study” has been funded by the Alzheimer’s Association and Rush University Medical Center.

Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics and molecular signaling, whose proposal “Identification of bacterial strains for development of an oral probiotic aimed at increasing nitric oxide bioavailability” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Jacinta Lewis, resource librarian Z. Smith Reyolds Library, whose proposal “Continuing Education Scholarship from the State Library of North Carolina to attend the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference” has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences and the State Library of North Carolina.

Marianne Magjuka, executive director Office of Civic & Community Engagement, whose proposal, AmeriCorps* VISTA Capacity-Building Project” has been funded by the Corporation for National & Community Service (AmeriCorps).

E.J. Masicampo, associate professor of psychology, whose proposal “Perceptions of Trustworthiness” has been funded by Psi Chi.

Emily Blacklin McCord, WFDD news director, whose proposal “RFA Newsroom Host Grant 2” has been funded by Report for America.

Gloria Muday, professor of biology and molecular signaling, whose proposal “RESEARCH-PGR: Genomic analysis of heat stress during tomato pollination” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Victor “Paúl” Pauca, professor of computer science and CEES, 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.

Ke Reid, associate professor of biology and molecular signaling, whose proposal “Determining the mechanisms by which a circular RNA regulates the function of Th17 cells” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and WFU Health Sciences.

Walter “Jack” Rejeski, professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal “Molecular transducers of physical activity consortium coordinating center (CCC)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Florida.

Miles Silman, professor of biology and director of CEES, whose proposal “CINCIA ACIERTA: Alliance for Science and Ecosystem Recovery” has been funded by USAID.

Troy Stitch, assistant professor of chemistry, whose proposal “Engineering O2-Tolerant Adenosyl Radical Enzymes for DirectedEvolution Applications” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.