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Search Committee formed to identify Dean of the College

A search committee has been formed to identify the next Dean of the College, succeeding Michele Gillespie, whose term as Provost begins on July 1, 2022. Tony Marsh, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Health and Exercise Science, will serve as interim Dean of the College while the search is underway.

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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: Bonin, Katula, Brubaker, Silman

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 Jeffrey Katula, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Strategic Grant – U.S. POINTER Study” has been funded by the Alzheimer’s Association and by (subaward/subcontract from) Rush University Medical Center.

Congratulations to Peter Brubaker, department chair and professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Does a tailored-progressive physical activity intervention before and during non-Hodgkin lymphoma anthracycline-based chemotherapy preserve exercise capacity, QOL, cardiac and cognitive function?” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Miles Silman, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Virtual Science Fair in Madre de Dios, Peru” has been funded by the United States Department of State.

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Proposals funded: Mihalko, McDonald, Silman, Brubaker

Congratulations to Shannon Mihalko, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Understanding and Predicting Fatigue, CV Decline and Events After Breast Cancer” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Wake Forest University Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Sarah McDonald, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Rotavirus Genome Replication and Virion Assembly” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Congratulations to Miles Silman, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Amazonian Center for Environment Research & Sustainability” has been funded by USAID.

Congratulations to Peter Brubaker, professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Does a tailored-progressive physical activity intervention before and during non-Hodgkin lymphoma anthracycline-based chemotherapy preserve exercise capacity, QQL, cardiac and cognitive function?” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Wake Forest University Health Sciences.

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