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Proposals funded: Killingsworth, Martin, Waddell

Congratulations to Jennifer Killingsworth, assistant controller, whose proposal entitled “CARES Act: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund” has been funded by the United States Department of Education.

Congratulations to Emily Martin, graduate student of biology, whose proposal entitled “The role of ethylene signaling in root hair development in tomato” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Congratulations to Valarie Waddell, director of financial reporting and accounting, whose proposal entitled “Wake Forest University – CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund / Institution” has been funded by the United States Department of Education.

Proposals funded: Iltis, Jurchescu, Silman

Congratulations to Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, whose proposal entitled ” Identifying and exploring solutions to the ethical challenges of ApoL1 testing of donors with recent African ancestry through mixed methods research with stakeholders” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Washington University.

Congratulations to Oana Jurchescu, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “DMREF: Collaborative Research: Organic Semiconductors by Computationally-Accelerated Refinement (OSCAR)” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Miles Silman, professor of biology and director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, whose proposal entitled “CINCIA ACIERTA: Alliance for Science and Ecosystem Recovery” has been funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Proposals funded: Iltis, Rejeski, Silman

Congratulations to Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, whose proposal entitled “Policy Innovation Leaders of Tomorrow (Pilot 21)” has been funded by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and by (subaward/contract from) North Carolina State University.

Congratulations to Jack Rejeski, research professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Wake Forest Translational Research Alcohol Center (WFTRAC)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Miles Silman, professor of biology and director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: BEE: Impacts of abiotic environment, pathogen resistance and Pre-Columbian human management on Neotropical canopy palm abundances” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Proposals funded: Anderson, Muday and Pease, Yazdani

Congratulations to Paul Anderson, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Studies relating to black hole evaporation and to the validity of the semiclassical approximation in cosmology” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Gloria Muday, professor of biology and director of the Center for Molecular Signaling, and James Pease, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “RESEARCH-PGR: Genomic analysis of heat stress during tomato pollination” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and by (subaward/subcontract from) Brown University.

Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Local delivery of smooth muscle cell targeted aptamer to inhibit neointimal growth and accelerate vascular healing” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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College faculty retirees: Barnes, Connolly, Friedman, Gibson, Goldstein

A guest post from the College

This is the first in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in 2021 and 2020. Enjoy the linked profiles, written by faculty colleagues within their departments, honoring these incredible teacher-scholars and their lasting legacies.

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