January 2010 Faculty Focus

• Miles Silman
  received funding from the Blue Moon Foundation for his proposal, “A Novel Remote Sensing Approach to Large-Scale Assessment of Carbon Storage in Tropical Forests.”

Chemistry

• Mark Welker
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “Preparation and Evaluation of PI3 Kinase Inhibitors for Use in Treatment of Prostate Cancer.”

English

• Rian Bowie
  presented a paper, “Painting a Thousand Words: The Portrait, the Daguerreotype, and the Technology of the Real (Self) in Ethiop’s ‘African American Picture Gallery’,” at the American Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C.

Health and Exercise Science

• Jack Rejeski
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “LIFE-M Study Data Management, Analysis, and Quality Control Center.”

Music

• Susan Borwick
  presented a paper on the arts, world religions and pilgrimage, and coordinated a session on pilgrimage at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia.

Physics

• David Carroll
  received funding from Cook Medical for his proposal, “Nanocomposite Distal Tips for Guidewires,” and from FiberCell Inc. for his proposal, “FiberCell.”

• Daniel Kim-Shapiro
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center for his proposal, “Role of Nitrite Reduction to NO by Hemoglobin in Control of Fetal Vascular Tone and Oxygen Consumption.”

• Fred Salsbury
  received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Wake Forest University Health Sciences for his proposal, “Preparation and Evaluation of P13 Kinase Inhibitors for Use in Treatment of Prostate Cancer.”

Political Science

• Will Walldorf
  published a book, “Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers,” which won the International Studies Association ISSS Award for Best Book in International Security for 2008/2009.

WFUBMC

• David Busija,
  physiology and pharmacology, received the Doctorem Medicinae Honoris Causa from the University of Szeged Medical School, Hungary.

• Min Pu
  has joined the Heart Center as professor of internal medicine, cardiology.