April 2009 Faculty Focus

• Steve Whittington
  received funding from the Institute of Museum & Library Services for his proposal, “Museum of Anthropology Painted Hide Conservation.”

Biology

• David Anderson
  received funding from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, “LTREB: Evolutionary Ecology of Seabird Reproductive Life Histories.”

Communication

• Steve Giles
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Tanglewood (Research) for his proposal, “Prevention Buffet: An Internet Prevention Resource for Middle School Teachers.”

• Michael Hyde
  was the moderator for the “Juicy Ethics” Symposium at Wake Forest on ethics and the Internet.

• Ananda Mitra
  presented a lecture, “Diasporic Identity in the Digital World,” at Manipal University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He was a respondent for the “Juicy Ethics” Symposium held at Wake Forest on ethics and the Internet.

• Alessandra Beasley Von Burg
  discussed her 2007 and 2008 Symposium on Citizenship at the national symposium, “Creativity, Worlds in the Making,” at Wake Forest. She co-organized Wake Forest’s “Juicy Ethics” Symposium on ethics and the Internet.

Computer Science

• Errin Fulp
  received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Battelle Memorial Institute for his proposal, “Securing the Next Generation of Information Infrastructures.”

English

• Andrew Ettin
  presented a paper, “Leopard, Jetées and the Customs Agents: Liturgical Creativity, Tradition and Destabilization,” at the national symposium, “Creativity, Worlds in the Making,” held at Wake Forest. He presented a paper, “Garments Falling Away: Silence in Jewish Religious and Literary Texts,” at the Sounds of Silence Conference at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT.

• Miriam Jacobson
  presented a paper, “Kermes Trismegistus: Dyes and Deceit in Chapman’s Hero and Leander,” at New York University’s Early Modern Forum.

• Scott Klein
  presented a paper, “Modernist Babylons: Utopian Aesthetics and Urban Spectacle in D.W. Griffith and Wyndham Lewis,” at the conference of the Modernist Studies Association in Nashville, TN. A portion of his article, “James Joyce and Avant-garde Music,” was reprinted in Vol. 1 No. 2 of Yareah Magazine (Madrid, December 2008) 9-10. He wrote the General Introduction to Wyndham Lewis’s journal, “The Tyro,” for the Modernist Journals Project (Brown University, 2008).

Mathematics

• Kenneth Berenhaut
  has been elected to a three-year term as councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division.

• Hugh Howards
  received the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award of the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America. He is the first Wake Forest faculty member to win this prize.

Music

• Susan Borwick
  has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the International Alliance for Women in Music.

• Dan Locklair had his organ music, “St. John’s Suite,” featured in its first national broadcast on the American Public Media’s Pipedreams radio show.

Physics

• David Carroll
  received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and UNC-Charlotte for his proposal, “Characterization of the Potential Toxicity of Metal Nanoparticles in Marine Ecosystems Using Oysters.”

• Jed Macosko
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Better, Faster Live-Cell Imaging: Motion-Enhanced DIC with Fluorescence.”

School of Divinity

• Jill Crainshaw
  has been elected vice president of the North American Academy of Liturgy.

• Bill Leonard
  published a book, “Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers: Exploring Christian Faith” (Westminster John Knox Press), summarizing the essential elements of Baptist belief and practice.