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Richard Wiliams, retired physics professor, passes away

Retired physics professor Richard T. Williams passed away July 5, 2021, after a brief struggle with AML leukemia. He was 75. After a successful early career at the Naval Research Laboratory, he was recruited back to Wake Forest as the Reynolds Professor of Physics. Professor Williams increased the reputation and visibility of the Wake Forest physics department by helping to establish its PhD program in the 1980s. He mentored the first physics PhD graduate and was the first endowed professor within the department.

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Proposals funded: Williams, Fernandez, Jayawickreme

Congratulations to Richard Williams, professor emeritus of physics, whose proposal entitled “Improvements of Scintillators mainly Experimental WFU subcontract from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and by (subaward/subcontract from) the University of California.

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Proposals funded: Williams, Thonhauser, Bonin, Muday

Congratulations to Richard Williams, professor emeritus of physics, whose proposal entitled “Improvement of Scintillators mainly Experimental WFU subcontract from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and by (subaward/subcontract from) University of California.

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Proposals funded: Lachgar, Rejeski, Williams

Congratulations to Abdessadek Lachgar, professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Empowering Pakistani Women through Scientific Research, Technology Development, and Entrepreneurship: Waste-to-Energy Technology Development” has been funded by the USAID and by [subaward/subcontract from] National Academy of Sciences (WFU funding agency).

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Proposals funded: Dos Santos, Von Burg, Williams

Congratulations to Patricia Dos Santos, associate professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Target specificity of cysteine desulfurase in Bacillus subtilis” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).   Congratulations to Ron Von Burg, assistant professor of communication, whose proposal entitled “Benjamin […]

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January 2015 faculty milestones

Richard Williams is celebrating 30 years as a physics professor at Wake Forest. Below is a list of other faculty milestones in January 2015. One year Jeffrey Eller; Head of Acquistions & Descript; Z. Smith Reynolds Library Jayashree Gokhale; Professor of Practice, Law; Law: […]

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