Faculty promotions announced
Congratulations to Wake Forest faculty who have received promotions, effective July 1.
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Kristen Beavers, Health and Exercise Science
Erin Binkley, Counseling
Elizabeth Clendinning, Music
Mark Curtis, Economics
Lisa Dragoni, School of Business
Amanda Gengler, Sociology
Kristina Gupta, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Seth Hayden, Counseling
Stephanie Koscak, History
Tin Cheuk Leung, Economics
Sarah McDonald, Biology
Jennifer Rogers, Counseling
Promotion to Full Professor
J.K. Curry, Theatre and Dance
Brook Davis, Theatre and Dance
Patricia Dos Santos, Chemistry
Jennifer Erway, Mathematics and Statistics
Kevin Jung, School of Divinity
Oana Jurchescu, Physics
Sandeep Mazumder, Economics
Soledad Miguel-Prendes, Spanish and Italian
Shannon Mihalko, Health and Exercise Science
Jarrod Whitaker, Study of Religions
Promotion to Full Professor of Law
Chris Coughlin, School of Law
Promotion to Associate Dean
Mary Beth Lock, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Promotion to Associate Librarian
Stephanie Bennett, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Promotion to Librarian
Craig Fansler, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Promotion to Assistant Librarian
Ashelee Gerald Hill, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor
Diana Arnett, Biology
Tammy Cashwell, Counseling
Allison Forti, Counseling
Laura Giovanelli, English
Molly Knight, German and Russian
Promotion to Teaching Professor
Tom Brister, Politics and International Affairs
Steve Gunkel, Sociology
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Proposals funded: Giles, Young, McDonald
Congratulations to Steven Giles, associate professor of communication, whose proposal entitled “A Coordinated Parent/Child Dyad Weight Loss Intervention: Dyad Plus” was funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Congratulations to Kyana Young, assistant professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Technology Development and Demonstration of Grit Assisted Patch (GAP): Improvement and Field Test” has been funded by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and by Marquette University.
Congratulations to Sarah McDonald, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Mapping Rotavirus Reassortment Restriction Determinants” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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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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Proposals funded: Donati, McDonald, Barrella, Ballard
Congratulations to George Donati, associate research professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Copper is a Host Effector Involved in Protection Against Urinary Tract Infection” has been funded by by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU 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 (NIH).
Congratulations to Elise Barrella, assistant professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “REE: Developing and Assessing Engineering Students’ Cognitive Flexibility in the Domain of Sustainable Design” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Congratulations to Grey Ballard, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Parallel Tensor Decompositions for Massive Data” has been funded by Sandia National Laboratories.
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Proposals funded: McDonald, Johnson, Brown, Ballard
Congratulations to Sarah McDonald, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Roto Virus” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Congratulations to Dan Johnson, professor of teaching in biology, whose proposal entitled “Improving Scientific Writing in STEM Classrooms: A Training Program for Students and Teaching Assistants Aided by Information Extraction Technology” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Hana Brown, associate professor of sociology, whose proposal entitled “Enforcement or Embrace? The Determinants of State-Level Immigration Policy in New Immigrant Destinations” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Notre Dame.
Congratulations to Grey Ballard, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “Scalable MTTKRP for Non-Negative Tensor Factorization” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy-DOI and UT-Batelle, LLC.
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