Faculty and staff proposals funded
Congratulations to the following Wake Forest faculty and staff members who have had proposals funded between July 2023 and June 2024.
The proposals funded are listed by month in order of the award. Details can be sorted by name or department using the Search function.
| Name | Title | Department(s) | Funding | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Silman | Professor | Biology / CEES | NASA / California Institute of Technology | NISAR MISSION CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION |
| Patricia Dos Santos | Wake Forest Professor | Chemistry | North Carolina Biotechnology Center - NCBC | New antimicrobial targets: Essential interactions with cysteine desulfurases |
| Stephen King | Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry | Chemistry | North Carolina Biotechnology Center - NCBC | Bacillithiol Based Antibiotic Boosters for the Treatment of Gram-Positive Infections |
| Stephen King | Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Chemical Biology of Nitroxyl (HNO) in Bacillus Subtilis |
| Lanita Parker Moore | Assistant Professor | Education / RAISE Center | Spencer Foundation | Something Inside So Strong: Advancing Black and Hispanic Students' Reading Self-Efficacy, Leadership Development, and Community Engagement through CDF Freedom School's Culturally Sustaining Academic Programming |
| Courtney Di Vittorio | Assistant Professor | Engineering | NASA | Quantification of Historic and Future Changes in Atlantic Coastal Marshes and Implications for Global Ocean Modeling |
| John Lukesh | Associate Professor | Grad School: Administration | National Science Foundation - NSF | GRFP 2023 |
| Sarah Mason | Professor | Mathematics | American Mathematical Society | Combinatorial Hopf Algebras |
| Nicholas Kortessis | Assistant Professor | Biology | National Science Foundation - NSF | IHBEM: The fear of here: Integrating place-based travel behavior and detection into novel infectious disease models |
| Elham Ghadiri | Assistant Professor | Chemistry / Functional Materials | National Science Foundation - NSF | "CAREER" "CAS" Broadband UV-NIR Ultrafast Photochemistry Imaged in Space and Time |
| Kristen Beavers | Associate Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Exercise and Bisphosphonate Use to Minimize Weight Loss Associated Bone Loss among Older Adults |
| Stephen Messier | Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH | The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS) |
| Stephen Messier | Professor | Health & Exercise Science | Arthritis Foundation | The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS) |
| Daniel Kim-Shapiro | Harbert Family Distinguished Chair | Physics / Translational Science Center | National Institutes of Health - NIH / Northwestern University | Response to Exercise and Nitric Oxide in PAD: the RESIST PAD Trial |
| Veronica Cole | Assistant Professor | Psychology | National Science Foundation - NSF / University of Virginia | Understanding How Approaches to Calibrating and Scoring Survey Item Responses Affect Results from Growth Mixture Models |
| Staci Hepler | Associate Professor | Statistical Sciences | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Spatio-temporal Methods for Surveillance of the Opioid Syndemic |
| Marianne Magjuka | Assistant Vice President | Civic & Community Engagement | Corporation for National & Community Service (AmeriCorps) / NC Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service | Public Health Corps AmeriCorps Grant Years 2 and 3 |
| Minghan Chen | Assistant Professor | Computer Science | National Science Foundation - NSF | CAREER: Towards a Living Neuron Twin for Improving Human Cognitive Health |
| Peter Brubaker | Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Does a tailored-progressive physical activity intervention before and during non-Hodgkin lymphoma anthracycline-based chemotherapy preserve exercise capacity, QOL, cardiac and cognitive function? |
| Walter Rejeski | Research Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Healthy Aging & Later-Life Outcomes - Pilot (HALLO-P) |
| Oana Jurchescu | Baker Family Professor of Physics | Physics / Functional Materials | National Science Foundation - NSF | DMREF: Collaborative Research: Accelerating the Commercial Readiness of Organic Semiconductor Systems (ACROSS) |
| Stephen Winter | Assistant Professor, Physics | Physics / Functional Materials | Oak Ridge Associated University - ORAU | Magneto-elastic Coupling and Thermal Transport in Quantum Magnets |
| Terry Brock | Manager of Archaeology and Research | Provost Office | Jones Archaeology Consulting | Africatown phase 2 |
| Carol Mitchell | Director | Biology / CEES | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Science and Capacity Development for Peruvian National Parks |
| Regina Cordy | Associate Professor | Biology / Molecular Signaling | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Investigating the role of oxygen on Plasmodium multiplication rate |
| Kyana Young | Assistant Professor | Engineering | Environmental Protection Agency - EPA / University of South Alabama | Non..woven hybrid geotextiles for urban stormwater nutrient management |
| Walter Rejeski | Research Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | MoTrPAC Consortium Coordinating Center |
| Walter Rejeski | Research Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Wake Forest Claude D. Pepper OAIC |
| Ana Iltis | Carlson Professor in University Studies | Philosophy / Bioethics, Health & Society | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Wake Forest Collaborative Application for an APOLLO Clinical Center |
| Karen Singer-Freeman | Director of Research | CAT | National Science Foundation - NSF / UNC Charlotte | Collaborative Research: Building Confidence through Culturally Relevant Co-requisiteMathematics Courses - UNC System Math Pathways for African AmericanCollegiate Transformation (MPAACT) |
| Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson | Associate Professor | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health - NIH / The Ohio State University - OSU | Mechanisms and biological functions of SPOUT methyltransferases |
| Lauren Lowman | Associate Professor | Engineering | NASA | Evaluating the effect of epiphyte abundance on evapotranspiration in a tropical montane cloud forest |
| Patricia Clayton | Associate Professor | Engineering | National Science Foundation - NSF / University of Texas at Austin | Empowering Engineering Scholar-Activists through Community-driven Research Experience (NSF Award #2051502) |
| Saami Yazdani | Professor | Engineering | Advanced NanoTherapies, Inc. | Ex Vivo Testing Assessment of Coronary Drug Coated Balloons |
| Megan Irby | Assistant Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Wake Forest NCORP Research Base |
| Daniel Kim-Shapiro | Harbert Family Distinguished Chair | Physics / Translational Science Center | National Institutes of Health - NIH / University of Maryland | Antidote for inhaled CO poisoning based on mutationally engineered neuroglobin |
| Daniel Kim-Shapiro | Harbert Family Distinguished Chair | Physics / Translational Science Center | National Institutes of Health - NIH / University of Maryland | Omics, mice, and men: Development of precision transfusion medicine |
| Stacie Petter | Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs | WFUSB-Instruction | National Science Foundation - NSF / University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB | D-ISN: Constraining Illicit Decision Making within and across Dynamic Supply Networks |
| Grey Ballard | Associate Professor | Computer Science | U.S. Department of Energy - DOE | Sparsitute: A Mathematical Institute for Sparse and Structured Problems in Science and Engineering |
| Saami Yazdani | Professor | Engineering | Advanced NanoTherapies, Inc. | Ex Vivo Testing Assessment of Coronary Drug Coated Balloons |
| Jason Fanning | Assistant Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients with Acute HFpEF - The REHAB-HFpEF Trial |
| Jeffrey Katula | Professor | Health & Exercise Science | Alzheimer's Association / Rush University Medical Center | Strategic Grant - U.S. POINTER Study |
| Ronald Wright | Professor | Law: Instruction | Charles Koch Foundation / Duke University | Second-Look Sentencing in State Prosecutors' Offices |
| Terry Brock | Manager of Archaeology and Research | Provost Office | Forsyth Co Historic Resources Commission / Preservation Forsyth | Unmarked Initiative CLG Grant |
| Medina Thompson | Manager | Residence Life & Housing | NC Office of State Budget and Management / University of North Carolina System | Wake Forest QPR Funding |
| Lucy McGowan | Assistant Professor | Statistical Sciences | R Consortium, Inc. | Causal Inference in a Box: Materials for Teach and Learning Causal Inference in R |
| Sarah Esstman | Professor | Biology | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Rotavirus Genome Replication and Virion Assembly |
| Mollie Canzona | Associate Professor | Communication | American Cancer Society / WFU Health Sciences | Cultural Attunement and Evaluation of an eHealth Fertility Preservation Decision Aid for Young Adults with Cancer: fertilit-e |
| Christian Miller | A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy | Philosophy | Templeton Religion Trust / Baylor University | Testing Patience: Philosophical Prelude to Interdisciplinary Study |
| Daniel Kim-Shapiro | Harbert Family Distinguished Chair | Physics | National Institutes of Health - NIH / Northwestern University | BEET root juice to reverse functional impairment in PAD: The BEET PAD Trial |
| Srinivasa SrimathKandada | Assistant Professor | Physics / Functional Materials | National Science Foundation - NSF | CAREER: Nonlinear dynamics of exciton-polarons in two-dimensional metal halides probed by quantum-optical methods |
| Dunuwille Jayawickreme | Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology | Psychology | Templeton Religion Trust / Baylor University | Patience Planning in Psychology |
| Wayne Pratt | Professor | Psychology | Psi Chi | An examination of the effects of cannabinoid receptor stimulation in the nucleus accumbens on impulsive choice |
| Andrea Gomez Cervantes | Assistant Professor | Sociology | JPB Foundation / University of Wisconsin Madison | Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship |
| Gloria Muday | Charles M. Allen Professor of Biology | Biology | United States Department of Agriculture - USDA | Revealing The Dynamics Of F-Actin In Tomato Pollen Tube And Its Response To Temperature And Ros |
| Patricia Dos Santos | Wake Forest Professor | Chemistry | National Science Foundation - NSF | Biological Fe-S intermediates in the synthesis of nitrogenase metalloclusters |
| Olga Pierrakos | Professor | Engineering | National Science Foundation - NSF | IPA Assignee: Olga Pierrakos |
| Alyse Bertenthal | Associate Professor | Law: Instruction | NC Wildlife Resources Commission / North Carolina State University | Wildlife Compliance Project |
| Jessica MacLellan | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Rust Family Foundation | Origins of Ceremonial Architecture and Sedentary Life in Mesoamerica: First Field and Laboratory Season of the Suchilapan Archaeological Project, 2024 |
| Miriam Ashley-Ross | Professor | Biology | National Science Foundation - NSF | Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment |
| Saami Yazdani | Professor | Engineering | North Carolina Biotechnology Center - NCBC | Disruptive Technology: A novel approach to rapidly coat an angioplasty balloon in the surgical theater |
| Kristen Beavers | Associate Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Adding bone microarchitecture and strength measures to the STRONG BONES randomized trial examining risedronate use to mitigate bone loss after bariatric surgery |
| Walter Rejeski | Research Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | MoTrPAC Consortium Coordinating Center |
| Freddie Salsbury | Professor | Physics | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Computational Biosciences Support |
| Patricia Dos Santos | Wake Forest Professor | Chemistry | North Carolina Biotechnology Center - NCBC | XI International Conference in Fe-S proteins |
| Mark Brown | Associate Professor | Education | United States Department of Education (Ed) / Winston-Salem State University | Winston-Salem Teach TQP Residency Program |
| Gary Miller | Professor | Health & Exercise Science | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | Enhancing UNderGraduate Education and Research in Aging (ENGAGED) |
| Jacinta Lewis | Research & Instruction Librarian, Engineerin | Library - ZSR | Institute for Museum and Lbrary Sciences - IMLS / State Library of North Carolina | American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2024 Conference |
| David Carroll | Professor | Physics / Nanotech & Molecular Materials | United States Special Operations Command - SOCOM / Streamline Automation, LLC | Edge Quantum Processor |
| Emily Huang | Assistant Professor | Statistical Sciences | National Institutes of Health - NIH / Harvard University (President and Fellows of Harvard College) | Integrating lifecourse approaches, biologic and digital phenotypes in support of heart and lung disease epidemiologic research. |
| Staci Hepler | Associate Professor | Statistical Sciences | U.S. Department of Energy - DOE / Triad National Security, LLC | Assessing Environmental and Health Impacts of Airborne Particulates |
| Jessica MacLellan | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | National Science Foundation - NSF | Suchilapan Archaeological Project: Origins of Ceremonial Architecture and Sedentary Life in Early Mesoamerica |
| Regina Cordy | Associate Professor | Biology / Molecular Signaling | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Investigating the role of oxygen on Plasmodium multiplication rate |
| Elham Ghadiri | Assistant Professor | Chemistry / Functional Materials | National Science Foundation - NSF | "CAREER" "CAS" Broadband UV-NIR Ultrafast Photochemistry Imaged in Space and Time |
| Kyana Young | Assistant Professor | Engineering | National Institutes of Health - NIH / WFU Health Sciences | CTSI - GCS |
| Saami Yazdani | Professor | Engineering | National Institutes of Health - NIH / Miami University | Sustained regulation of hypothalamus-pituitary-ovary hormones with tissue-engineered ovarian constructs as a treatment for osteoporosis in females |
| Claudia Falcon | Assistant Professor | Mathematics | Mathematical Association of America | Tensor Women & Mathematics Grants |
| Paul Anderson | Professor | Physics | National Science Foundation - NSF | Studies of quantum effects related to black holes and the early universe |
| Martin Guthold | Professor | Physics / Translational Science Center | National Institutes of Health - NIH / East Carolina University | How do early stages of fibrin fiber assembly affect clot structure and lysis? |
| Gloria Muday | Charles M. Allen Professor of Biology | Biology / Molecular Signaling | National Science Foundation - NSF / North Carolina A&T University | NSF Type-2: Climate-Resilient Opportunities for Plant Systems (CROPS): Building a North Carolina Ag-Tech Innovation Corridor |
| Stephen King | Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health - NIH | Chemical Biology of Nitroxyl (HNO) in Bacillus Subtilis |
| Grey Ballard | Associate Professor | Computer Science | National Science Foundation - NSF | Communication-Avoiding Tensor Decomposition Algorithms |
| Daniel Kim-Shapiro | Harbert Family Distinguished Chair | Physics / Translational Science Center | North Carolina Biotechnology Center - NCBC | TRG: Nitrite and Light Prevention of Device Thrombosis |
| Lorie Mabe-McCroskey | Development Director | WFDD | Winston-Salem Foundation | Winston-Salem Community Foundation WFDD Professional Development Grant |
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