Office of the Provost announces faculty retirements
The Office of the Provost has announced the following Reynolda Campus faculty retirements with full retirement dates in July or August of 2020:
School of Business
George Page West, professor
College
John Friedenberg, associate teaching professor
Brian Gorelick, associate professor
Judy Kem, professor
Rick Matthews, professor
Cathy Seta, professor
Alan Williams, history
School of Law
Kate Mewhinney, professor
Suzanne Reynolds, professor
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU
Proposals funded: Gross, Rejeski, Curtis, Mewhinney
Congratulations to Michael Gross, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “CAREER: Processing High Surface Area, Nanostructured Ceramic Scaffolds at High Temperatures via In-Situ Carbon Templating of Hybrid Materials” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Professor of Health and Exercise Science Jack Rejeski, whose proposal entitled “Molecular transducers of physical activity consortium coordinating center (CCC)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract) the University of Florida.
Congratulations to Mark Curtis, assistant professor of economics, whose proposal entitled “Policy and Entrepreneurship” has been funded by the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation.
Congratulations to Kate Mewhinney, managing attorney for The Elder Law Clinic, whose proposal entitled “Client Needs Fund” was funded by the N.C. Bar Foundation.
Categories: Inside WFU
Provost Office awards grants
The Provost’s Office awarded the following grants for fall 2015:
Provost’s Fund for a Vibrant Campus
Tom Phillips, Words Awake2! A Literary Festival and Celebration of Wake Forest Writers and Writing, $5,000
Kevin Bowen, Wind Ensemble Commission and Guest Artist Residency for WFU Emerging Wind Band Composer Series, $ 4,000.
Melissa Harris-Perry and Marianne Magjuka, Ari Berman Address to Campus Student Leaders on Voting -Rights Issues, $3,868
Jeff Holdridge and Ryan Shirey, Campus Visit and Public Reading by Ciaran Carson, $2,992
Elizabeth Clendinning and Brandon Robinson, Perspectives on Integration: Music at Little Rock Central High and Beyond, $2,000
Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence
Christina Soriano, Dani Kim-Shapiro, Stephen Krichevsky, Kate Mewhinney, Aging Re-imagined: Art Science and Policy, $10,000
Mary Dalton, Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies Conference, $10,000
Sandeep Mazunder, Liberal Arts Macroeconomic Workshop, $5,574.34
Jessie Laurita-Spanglet, Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Project with Performance Outcomes, $4,750
Provost’s Fund for Academic Innovation
Sunggu Yang and Veronice Miles, Festival Week of Prophetic Ministry, $5,000
Hu Womack, Writers Camp @ZSR, $1,496
Categories: University Announcement
Proposals funded: Kim-Shapiro, Masicampo, Mewhinney
Congratulations to Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Storage lesion in banked blood due to disruption of nitric oxide homeostasis” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 5R01HL098032-07 and by [subaward/subcontract from] University of Pittsburgh (WFU funding agency).
Congratulations to E.J. Masicampo, assistant professor of psychology, whose proposal “Complementary Benefits of First- and Third-Person Perspective for Self-Control” has been funded by the Templeton Foundation and by [subaward/subcontract from] FSU Research Foundation, Inc. (WFU funding agency).
Congratulations to Kate Mewhinney, clinical professor at the School of Law: Elder Clinic, whose proposal entitled “Health Rights of LBGT Patients” has been funded by the NC Society of Health Care Attorneys.
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