September 2011 Staff Milestones
See a list of employment milestones reached by staff in September 2011:
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WFU named CUDA Teaching Center
Wake Forest has been named a CUDA Teaching Center by NVIDIA Corporation. Dr. Sam Cho, assistant professor in computer science and physics, will coordinate the Teaching Center activities, which include teaching, research, and training. The department was awarded 50 GTX 480 GPU cards valued […]
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Daniel Kim-Shapiro, physics
Congratulations to Daniel Kim-Shapiro, whose proposal entitled “Role of nitrite reduction to NO by hemoglobin in control of fetal vascular tone” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center.
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Retired professor Carl Harris dies
Professor Emeritus Carl V. Harris (’44), whose gentle ways and love of the classics inspired generations of students, died Aug. 9 in Winston-Salem. He was 88. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Salemtowne Retirement Community in […]
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Retired professor Bob Beck dies
Professor Emeritus of Psychology Robert C. Beck, whose 50-year tenure ranks as one of the longest in Wake Forest history, has died. Beck, who retired two years ago, died on Aug. 18 in Winston-Salem after a brief illness. He was 79. A memorial service […]
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Former WFU president Scales honored
Dr. James Ralph Scales, who served as president of Wake Forest from 1967 to 1983, was honored by his alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist. A statue of Dr. Scales, who also served as president of OBU in 1961, was unveiled and dedicated on OBU’s Quadrangle on […]
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Message from John McConnell
A message from John D. McConnell, MD, CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: I want to congratulate all of you on our national rankings by U.S. News and World Report and invite you to view this Focus Forward video so you can see what […]
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Mary Pendergraft, Classical Languages
Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages, completed her four-year term as Chief Reader for Advanced Placement Latin at the Reading in Kansas City, Mo., June 1-8. She also organized a workshop and gave two additional presentations at the American Classical League Annual Institute in Minneapolis on […]
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David Carroll, physics
Congratulations to professor David Carroll, whose proposal entitled “Graduate Research Fellowship Program” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and whose proposal entitled “PF-DT WOLED Development” has been funded by CeeLite Technologies.
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Paul Pauca, computer science
Congratulations to Paul Pauca, whose proposal entitled “Challenging Ocular Image Recognition (COIR)” has been funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and Carnegie Mellon University.
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