Faculty and staff proposals funded, June 2025

August 6, 2025

Congratulations to the following Wake Forest faculty and staff members whose proposals were funded in June 2025.

Name	Title	Department(s)	Funding	Project Title
Fan Yang (Comp Sci)	Assistant Professor	Computer Science	NSF	CRII: III: Towards Efficient Interpretation for Explainable Learning: A Computational Perspective on Attribution and Recourse
Kyana Young	Associate Professor	Engineering	NC State U	Use of Meltblown Nonwoven Fabric for Stormwater Runoff Treatment
Saami Yazdani	Professor	Engineering	Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD)	Pharmacokinetic and scanning electron microscopy evaluation of drug coated balloons
William Crowe	Assistant Teaching Professor	Engineering	US Army Medical Acquisition Activity - USAMRAA / WFUHS	DoD CDMRP Burn Pit Project
Paige Rice	Assistant Professor	Health & Exercise Science	NIH	Muscle Power as a Predictor of Knee Osteoarthritis in At-Risk Females
Dominic Veconi	Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow	Mathematics	American Mathematical Society	The Lorenz attractor has Bernoulli equilibrium states
David Carroll	Professor	Physics / Nanotech & Molecular Materials	Air Force Office of Scientific Research - AFOSR / Quoherent	Quantum Instruction Set for Topological Insulator Quantum Processors
Kate Allman	Executive Director of Winston-Salem TEACH	Program for Leadership & Character	US Army Research Office - ARO	Developing a measure of change: A Planning Grant
Sarah Lotspeich	Assistant Professor	Statistical Sciences	WFUHS	Analytic harmonization of substance use measures within HIV clinical sitesacross six geographically unique settings within the IeDEA consortium

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