January 2009 Faculty Focus
Biology
- Miles Silman
received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for his proposal, “Conservation Implication of Climate Change and Fire in the Eastern Andes.” - Bill Smith
received funding from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, “BINET: A Research Network for Sustaining Barrier Island Ecosystems in a Changing Global Environment.” - Clifford Zeyl
received funding from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, “Evolutionary Advantage, Recombination and Adaptation in Experimental Yeast Populations.”
Chemistry
- Dilip Kondepudi
has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - Mark Welker
has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Classical Languages
- Mary Pendergraft
chaired the National Faculty Colloquium on Advanced Placement Latin sponsored by the College Board in Chicago. She attended the AP Latin Development Committee Meeting in Asheville, NC, and was part of a panel, “Advanced Placement Latin: Present and Future,” at a meeting of the Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, also held in Asheville. She was elected president of the Southern Section of CAMWS for a two-year term.
Communication
- Michael Hazen
organized sessions, “Business Meeting of the North American Branch of the Russian Communication Association;” “Discourse and Public Opinions in Russia: Politics, Religion, Business and Gender;” and “New Ways of Understanding Communication in Russia and the CIS,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. He also presented papers, “The Prophetic Woman: May Yost’s Sociological Approach to Argumentation and its Relevance to Understanding of Contemporary Argument and Human Communication” and “Toward a Better Understanding of the Role of Communication in Conflict: The Relationship Between Argument Processes, Cultural Values and Conflict Behavior in Chinese Societies,” at the conference. - Michael Hyde
presented a paper, “Augustine and Heidegger on Acknowledging the Importance of Acknowledgment,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. He responded to panels on “Acknowledging Others” and “Thinking Otherwise: Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres.” - Marina Krcmar
presented a paper, “Assessing the Research on Media, Cognitive Development and Infants: Can Infants Really Learn from Baby Einstein?” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. She served as a non-presenter at the conference for two papers, “Experiencing Telepresence in Video Games: The Role of Telepresence Tendencies, Game Experience, Gender, and Time Spent in Play” and “Who Watches Verbally Aggressive Shows? An Examination of Personality and Other Individual Difference Factors in Predicting Viewership.” - Allan Louden
served as a non-presenter for a paper, “A Scholar’s Roundtable on the 2008 Presidential Election,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. - Jill McMillan
presented a paper, “Contexts for Deliberation: The Classroom, the Campus, and the Community,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. - Ananda Mitra
received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “SPARC, Study to Prevent Alcohol Related Consequences.” He chaired a session, “SecondLife: Virtual Identities,” and presented two papers, “Digital Citizenship” and “How to Make Friends and Influence People in SecondLife,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. - Randall Rogan
presented a paper, “The Language of Crisis Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of Incident Outcome,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. - Alessandra Beasley Von Burg
chaired two sessions, “Rhetorical Approaches to Social Imaginaries” and “UnCONVENTIONal Experiences in Connecting Communication and Politics in Higher Education,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego. She also presented two papers, “The Ingenium of Religion” and “With or Without Non-Citizens,” at the conference. - Margaret Zulick
presented a paper, “The Landscape of Prophecy: Inventing the Sacred in Anglo-American Fold Hymnody,” at the 2008 National Communication Association Conference in San Diego.
Counseling
- Laura Veach
received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for her proposal, “Policy Implementation Regarding Brief Interventions in the Trauma Center.”
Mathematics
- Bob Plemmons
received funding from the Defense Microelectronics Activity and the Catholic University of America for his proposal, “Integrated Optical-Digital Imaging Camera System: Phase III: Computation Team Research and Development.”
Music
- David Levy
was noted in the Winston-Salem Journal for his program notes and descriptions of Moody’s “Kaddish Symphony,” performed by the Winston-Salem Symphony. - Dan Locklair
had his motet “Pater Noster” broadcast over the syndicated radio program “With Heart and Voice,” and “From East to West” over “Pipedreams.”
Philosophy
- Charles Lewis
has been named the first Wake Forest A.C. Reid Distinguished Teaching Fellow.
Physics
- David Carroll
received funding from the Thai Government for his proposal, “Nanocomposites for Energy Utilization,” and from PureLux Inc. for his proposal, “PureLux, Formerly Plexilight.” - Jacque Fetrow
has been named dean of the College. - Daniel Kim-Shapiro
received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Nitrite and Nitric Oxide in Sickle Cell Blood.” - Jed Macosko
received funding from NanoMedia Inc. for his proposal, “NanoSelection of Customizable Biotechnology Reagents.”
Political Science
- Luis Roniger
published a paper, “El exilio politico y los limites de las Doctrinas de Seguridad Nacional,” in Vol. 2 of Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio (2008) 69-86.
School of Medicine
- Jon Abramson
pediatrics, has been nominated to serve as the representative from the Americas to the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts of the World Health Organization. - Geraldine Alba
has joined obstetrics and gynecology as assistant professor specializing in general obstetrics and gynecology. - Bill Applegate
has been named president of Health Sciences. He will continue as dean of the School of Medicine. - Dean Assimos
urology, has been elected to the board of directors of the Endourology Society. - Lisa Cassidy-Vu
has joined family and community medicine as an assistant professor. - Pirouz Daeihagh
nephrology, has been promoted to associate professor of internal medicine. - Kathi Kemper
pediatrics, public health science and family and community medicine, received the National Leadership Award for Integrative Pediatrics from the Integrative Pediatrics Council. - Erik Lie-Nielsen
has joined family and community medicine as an assistant professor. - Sally Mullany
has joined obstetrics and gynecology as assistant professor specializing in gynecologic oncology. - Oana Panea
has joined family and community medicine as an assistant professor. - Bruce Rubin
pediatrics and biomedical engineering, received the 2008 Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award from the trustees of the American Respiratory Care Foundation and the American Association of Respiratory Care. - Jennifer Smith
has joined obstetrics and gynecology as assistant professor specializing in maternal-fetal medicine and preeclampsia. - Carmen Strickland
has joined family and community medicine as an assistant professor.
Sociology
- David Yamane
received funding from The Teagle Foundation for his proposal, “Faith, Reason, and Beer Pong.”
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