"Department of Computer Science" Archive

Proposals funded: Ballard, Comstock-Ferguson, Hayden, Rejeski

Congratulations to Grey Ballard, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Robust, Scalable, and Practical Low-Rank Approximation” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson, associate professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “RNA Modification and Antibiotic Resistance” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Emory University.

Congratulations to Seth Hayden, associate professor of counseling and clinical mental health program coordinator, whose proposal entitled “Bi-Erasure and the Impact on Health and Well-Being” has been funded by the American Institute of Bisexuality.

Congratulations to Jack Rejeski, research professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Long-term function and health effects of intentional weight loss in obese elders” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

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Proposals funded: Alqahtani, Messier, Yazdani

Congratulations to Sarra Alqahtani, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “CRII-IIS: Secure Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Stephen Messier, professor of health and exercise science and director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory, whose proposal entitled “Preventing Incident Knee Osteoarthritis: The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Ex Vivo Testing Assessment of Varying Drug Coated Balloon Coating” has been funded by Advanced NanoTherapies, Inc.

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Proposals funded: Ballard, Bonin, Curtis

Congratulations to Grey Ballard, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Communication-Avoiding Tensor Decomposition Algorithms” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Keith Bonin, professor of physics and associate provost, whose proposal entitled “Chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Mark Curtis, associate professor of economics, whose proposal entitled “How Does Capital Investment Affect Workers?” has been funded by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and by (subaward/subcontract) from Duke University.

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Proposals funded: Brown-Harding, Miller, Pauca

Congratulations to Heather Brown-Harding, assistant director of microscopy in biology, whose proposal entitled “Phenotype screens of Chlamydia Inclusions” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Gary Miller, associate chair and professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Enhancing Undergraduate Education and Research in Aging to Eliminate Health Disparities (ENGAGED)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Paúl Pauca, professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Rapid Change and Development in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot: A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach to Quantify Terrestrial and Aquatic Impacts and Test Policy Effectiveness” has been funded by NASA and by (subaward/subcontract from) Trustees of Dartmouth College.

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WFU Hackathon to explore blockchain’s potential in tracking art objects

In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. Close-up photograph of keys on a laptop keyboardThe pieces included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian spear and arrow points, knives and grinding stones.

An effigy bowl from this Western Mexican Collection is one of three cultural objects inspiring a Blockchain challenge in the upcoming Wake Forest Hackathon March 6 and 7. Others include a Fijian oil bowl discovered by the 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook, and antiquities from sites in Southwest Niger.

In its fourth year, the WFU Hackathon is organized and hosted by Wake Forest computer science students. Undergraduate and graduate students nationwide are invited to participate in this year’s remote event to explore ways that blockchain technology can aid in the historical tracking and restitution of cultural property. Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult – if not impossible – to change, hack or cheat the system.

What the students discover may help museums and art collectors worldwide.

Faculty and staff are invited to join in. More details are available on the Wake Forest University news site and at https://wakehacks.cs.wfu.edu/.

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