June 2009 Faculty Focus

Anthropology

• Ellen Miller
  is one of the scientists examining a trove of small mammal fossils discovered in a quarry in Egypt. She is an expert on the evolution of African mammals.

• Paul Thacker
  has been promoted to associate professor.

Biology

• Gloria Muday
  received funding from the National Science Foundation for her proposal, “Arabidopsis 2010 Project Collaborative Research: Modeling Biological Networks in Arabidopsis Through Integration of Genomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data.”

• Peter Weigl
  has retired.

Chemistry

• Bruce King
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “Proteomic Profiling of Cancer-Related Redox Signaling Pathways.”

• Akbar Salam
  has been promoted to associate professor.

Communication

• Allan Louden
  has been promoted to professor.

Computer Science

• Jennifer Burg
  has been promoted to professor.

• David John
  has been promoted to professor.

• Paul Pauca
  received funding from the Defense Microelectronics Activity and the Catholic University of America for his proposal, “A Practical Enhanced-Resolution Integrated Optical-Digital Imaging Camera.”

Health and Exercise Science

• Jack Rejeski
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Program.”

History

• Ed Hendricks
  has retired.

Mathematics

• Fred Howard
  has retired.

Music

• Susan Borwick
  had her choral composition, “The Child,” published by MorningStar Music Publishers.

Philosophy

• Christian Miller
  has been promoted to associate professor.

Physics

• David Carroll
  received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Kent State University for his proposal, “MURI: Self-Assembled Soft Optical Negative Index Materials,” and from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “Nanotubes in Tumor Imaging and Therapy.”

• Daniel Kim-Shapiro
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Effects of Nitric Oxide in Sickle Cell Blood.”

• Fred Salsbury
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health for his proposal, “Targeting the MSH2-dependent Apopototic Pathway.”

Political Science

• Luis Roniger
  co-published a book, “The Politics of Exile in Latin America” (Cambridge University Press, April 2009).

• Helga Welsh
  has been promoted to professor.

Psychology

• Robert Beck
  has retired.

• William Fleeson
  has been promoted to professor.

• John Petrocelli
  was interviewed by WXII News for a “Project Economy” segment.

• James Schirillo
  has been promoted to professor.

Religion

• Simeon Ilesanmi
  has been promoted to professor.

Romance Languages

• Linda Howe
  saw more than two decades of research and work with more than 200 Wake Forest students, faculty and staff come to fruition when “Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints: 1985-2009” made its debut at the Grolier Club of New York. The exhibit will open at Wake Forest in August.

School of Law

• Jennifer Collins
  has been promoted to professor.

• Suzanne Reynolds
  received a Woman of Achievement Award from the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of North Carolina for her work in domestic violence and improving the law of the family.

• David Shores
  has retired.

• Kami Simmons
  has been promoted to associate professor.

• Omari Simmons
  has been promoted to associate professor.

School of Medicine

• Thomas Clarkson,
  comparative medicine, received the 2009 American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Mentor Award.

• Richard Dean
  has retired as professor of surgical sciences – general surgery.

• John Hammon
  has retired as professor of surgical sciences – cardiothoracic surgery.

• Susan Hutson
  has retired as professor of biochemistry.

• Fred Kremkau
  has retired as professor of medical ultrasound.

• Ronald Prineas
  has retired as professor of public health sciences – epidemiology.

• Walter Roufail
  has retired as professor of internal medicine – gastroenterology.

• Richard St. Clair
  has retired as professor of pathology.

• Jack Strandhoy
  has retired as professor of physiology and pharmacology.

• Reidar Wallin
  has retired as professor of internal medicine – rheumatology and clinical immunology.

Schools of Business

• Stephen Ewing
  has retired.

• Chet Miller
  has been promoted to professor.

• Don Robin
  has retired.

• Michelle Roehm
  has been promoted to professor.