Faculty and staff proposals funded

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

Shannon Brady, assistant professor of psychology, whose proposal entitled “Race and teacher well-being: Improving teacher retention and student outcomes” has been funded by the Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Minghan Chen, assistant professor computer science, whose proposal entitled “Uncovering the Heterogeneity of Neurodegeneration Trajectories in Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Network Guided Reaction-Diffusion Model” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emily Huang, assistant professor of math and statistics, whose proposal entitled “Integrating lifecourse approaches, biologic and digital phenotypes in support of heart and lung disease epidemiologic research” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University (President and Fellows of Harvard College).

Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Advancing development of combined nitrite/light product to treat device thrombosis” has been funded by WFU Health Sciences.

Glen Marrs, microscopy facility director in biology, whose proposal entitled “Live Cell Fluorescent Imaging System” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Emily Blacklin McCord, WFDD public radio news director, whose proposal entitled “Programmatic funds for bilingual communications to increase health insurance and public benefit enrollment among Latinx communities in Forsyth County” has been funded by Report for America and the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.

Allison Perkins, executive director at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, whose proposal “Welcome Center for the Reynolda Historic District and Generator for the Reynolda House” has been funded by NC Office of State Budget and Management.