Researchers win grant to create better drought-prediction tool
Aiming to increase the accuracy and timeliness of drought predictions in the United States, a team of environmental researchers at Wake Forest University has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new method for predicting drought.Categories: University Announcements
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Three Wake Forest faculty – math and statistics professor Abbey Bourdon, engineering professor Erin Henslee and chemistry professor John Lukesh – have been named National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winners. Each will receive a five-year grant ranging from $400,000 to $625,000 to support their work.
As part of the University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta fielded student questions at a special program in Wait Chapel.
Beginning in the fall, 15 Wake Forest University community members will get to explore public health in a real-world context by participating in Public Health AmeriCorps, a federally funded program designed to improve lives, strengthen communities and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States and Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will launch this upcoming second season of the Face to Face Speaker Forum.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and multiple Emmy-award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN will join the Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel.
More than two dozen Wake Forest faculty and students will take part in the annual “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival,” April 8-10 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington.
Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente has appointed Michele Gillespie, current Dean of Wake Forest’s College of Arts and Sciences, to succeed Rogan Kersh as University Provost, effective July 1, 2022.
Entrepalooza, a celebration of entrepreneurship and Wake Forest student entrepreneurs, will be held April 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the Scales Fine Arts Center in Brendle Recital Hall.