Faculty and staff proposals funded, October 2025

November 24, 2025

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

Name	Title	Department(s)	Funding	Project Title
Christina Soriano	Reynolds Professor	Theatre & Dance / Wake the Arts	NIH / WFU Health Sciences	Establishing the optimal frequency of dance movement for neurocognitive and physical outcomes in people at risk of Alzheimer's disease
Kyana Young	Associate Professor	Engineering	EPA / University of South Alabama	Non..woven hybrid geotextiles for urban stormwater nutrient management
Dany Kim-Shapiro	Harbert Family Distinguished Chair	Physics / Translational Science Center	NIH / University of Maryland	Omics, mice, and men: Development of precision transfusion medicine
Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson	Associate Professor	Chemistry	NIH / The Ohio State University - OSU	Mechanisms and biological functions of SPOUT methyltransferases
Kate Allman	Executive Director of Winston-Salem TEACH	Program for Leadership & Character	United States Army Research Office - ARO	Developing a measure of change: A Planning Grant
David Carroll	Professor	Physics / Nanotech & Molecular Materials	Quoherent	Critical Path for Quoherent
Staci Hepler	Associate Professor	Statistical Sciences	NIH / WFU Health Sciences	Spatio Temporal Methods project NIH NIDA R01

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