"Faculty research" 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: Geyer, Guthold, McCord

Congratulations to Scott Geyer, assistant professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Employing atomically precise colloidal synthesis to reveal the roles of stoichiometry, strain and electron density in metal phosphide electrocatalysts” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Martin Guthold, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Identifying the function of the Fibrin(ogen) alpha-C connector region” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) East Carolina University.

Congratulations to Emily McCord, news director for 88.5 WFDD, whose proposal entitled “La Noticia’s match for RFA Newsroom Host Grant” has been funded by La Noticia.

Congratulations to Emily McCord, news director for 88.5 WFDD, whose proposal entitled “RFA Newsroom Host Grant” has been funded by Report for America.

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: 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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