Research/News/Events
Accountancy:
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Alex Geranmayeh |
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Federation of Schools of Accountancy, Student Achievement Award: This award is presented in recognition of a student's superior academic achievement, leadership, and professionalism in post-baccalaureate accounting education. 2007 |
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Shawn C. Cornell |
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Excellence
in Entrepreneurship Award for Life Sciences, 2006 Wake Forest University Center
for Entrepreneurship. |
Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology:
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Carleitta Paige — |
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Carleitta, a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Structural Biology and Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellow has been selected to attend the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Intramural NIAID Research Opportunities (INRO) program to convene February 4, 2007, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Charles W. Pemble and Todd T. Lowther — |
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Participated in the recent RCSB PDB Poster Prize competitions for best student poster related to macromolecular crystallography. The award at the American Crystallographic Association's Annual Meeting (July 22-27; Honolulu, Hawaii) was a tie: "Thioesterase domain of human fatty acid synthase: structural insights into chain-length selectivity." Co-Authors: Charles W. Pemble, Steve J. Kridel, and Todd T. Lowther. |
Biology:
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Jill A. Awkerman |
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Publications:
(1) Awkerman, J. A., A. Fukuda, H. Higuchi, and D. J. Anderson. (2005) Foraging activity
and submesoscale habitat use of waved albatrosses Phoebastria irrorata during the chick brooding period. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 291:289-300.
(2) Shaffer, S. A., Y. Tremblay, J. Awkerman, R. W. Henry, S. L. H. Teo, D. J. Anderson, D. A.
Croll, B. A. Block, and D. P. Costa. (2005) Comparison of light- and SST-based geolocation with satellite telemetry in free-ranging albatrosses. Marine Biology. 147:833-843.
(3) Awkerman, J. A., K. P. Huyvaert, and D. J. Anderson. (2005) Mobile-incubation
in waved albatross Phoebastria irrorata: associated hatching
failure and artificial mitigation. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 1 (1).
(4) Moretz C. M., J. A. Awkerman, K. K. Thorington, and A. D. Johnson. (2005) Building
an ecosystem with a semester-long lab writing project. Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education,
26: 406-409. |
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Presentations:
(1) Awkerman, J. A., K. P. Huyvaert, and D. J. Anderson. (2005) Mobile-incubation
in waved albatross Phoebastria irrorata: associated hatching
failure and artificial mitigation. 32nd annual Pacific Seabird Group and 27th
annual Waterbird Society meeting. 19-22 January 2005. Portland, Oregon.
(2) Awkerman, J. A., K. P. Huyvaert, J. Mangel, J. Alfaro Shigueto, and D. J. Anderson. Incidental and intentional catch threatens waved albatross population. 33rd annual Pacific Seabird Group meeting. 15-19 February 2006. Girdwood, Alaska. |
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Brad Anthony Chadwell |
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Presentation:
Chadwell, Brad, Emily Standen and George Lauder. Dorsal and anal fin function
during the C-start escape response in bluegill sunfish. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Orlando, Florida. 4-8 January 2006. |
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Awards:
(1) Vecellio Grant for Graduate Research, The Vecellio Fund, March, 2005
(2) Cocke Travel Award, Elton C. Cocke Fund, December, 2005
(3) Alumni Student Travel Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Annual Fund,
December, 2005 |
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Karin
S. Edwards |
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Presentations:
(1) Edwards, Karin and Muday, Gloria. Phosphorylation Control of Auxin Transport and
Dependent Physiological Processes. American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, July, 2006.
(2) Edwards, Karin and Muday, Gloria. Phosphorylation Control of Auxin Transport and
Gravitropism in Arabidopsis Roots by Pinoid KInase. North Carolina Biotechnology, Plant Molecular Biology Retreat, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, September 30-October 1, 2006. |
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K.
Joel Fellis |
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Fellis, K. J. and G. W. Esch. 2005. Autogenic-allogenic status affects interpond community similarity and species area
relationship of macroparasites in the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus, from a series of freshwater ponds in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Journal of Parasitology 91: 764-767. Fellis, K.J. and G.W. Esch. 2005. Variation in life cycle affects the distance decay of
similarity among bluegill sunfish parasite communities. Journal of Parasitology 92: 1484-1486.
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Brian
Grimberg |
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Publication: Grimberg, B.
and C. Zeyl. (2005) The effects of sex and mutation rate on adaptation in test
tubes and to mouse hosts by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Evolution 59: 431-438. |
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Melanie
M. Huston |
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Huston,
Melanie and Miriam Ashley-Ross. Feeding kinematics of the grotto salamander, Eurycea
spelaea. Society for Integrative
and
Comparative Biology. Orlando, FL. January 6, 2006. |
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Daniel
M. Johnson |
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Awards
(1) Eugene P. Odum Student Research Award in Ecology, Ecological Society of America,
Southeastern Chapter, 2006.
(2) National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Award, Office of International
Science and Engineering, 2005. "Ecological
facilitation by /Rhododendron caucasicum/ extends the Betula litwinowii /alpine
treeline, Caucasus Mountains of Georgia."
(3) Botanical Society of America, Graduate Student Research Award, 2005. "Evaluation
of cloud immersion, acidic deposition, leaf
wettability, and cuticle damage in refugial populations of Fraser fir."
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Publications:
(1) W.K. Smith and D.M. Johnson. 2006. Biophysical Effects of Altitude on Plant Gas
Exchange. /In /Biophysical Plant Ecology: Perspectives
and Trends. Academic Press, Springer, NY (in press).
(2) D.M. Johnson, W.K. Smith, T.C. Vogelmann and C.R. Brodersen. 2005. Leaf architecture,
incident light direction, and mesophyll fluorescence
profiles inside a broadleaf, conifer needle and cotyledon. American Journal of
Botany 92:1425-1431.
(3) D.M. Johnson and W.K. Smith. 2005. Refugial forests of the Southern Appalachians:
photosynthesis and survival in high altitude, current-year
/Abies fraseri/ seedlings. Tree Physiology 25:1379-1387.**
(4) D.M. Johnson, W.K. Smith and M.R. Silman. 2005. Climate-independent paleoaltimetry
using stomatal density in fossil leaves as
a proxy for CO_2 partial pressure: COMMENT. Geology 33:e82. |
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Presentations:
(1) Photosynthesis and survival in high-altitude, current-year seedlings of Abies fraseri in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Botanical Society of America, Austin, TX. 8, 2005.
(2) Coupling physiological ecology and population biology: seedling establishment
at alpine treeline. Department of Biology,
Wake Forest University. 3, 2005. |
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Delphine
Masse |
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Presentation: Masse, Delphine and Miles R. Silman. Niche- and Dispersal-based assembly of lowland tropical tree communities:
landscape effects of distance and geomorphology. 90th annual meeting of the Ecological
Society of America. Montreal. August 12, 2005. |
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Josh
Rapp |
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Grant:Vecellio Grants for
Graduate Research Wake Forest Biology Department 2005. |
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Publication:Rapp, J., D. Wang,
D. Capen, E. Thompson, and T. Lautzenheiser. (2005) Evaluating error in using
the National Vegetation Classification System
for ecological community mapping in northern New England. Natural Areas Journal
25: 46-54. |
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Poornima
Sukumar |
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Publication:
Buer, Charles, Sukumar, Poornima, and Muday, Gloria (2006) Ethylene Modulates
Flavonoid Accumulation and Gravitropic Responses
in Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology: In press |
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Julie
L. Wyatt |
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Awarded
William Chambers Coker Fellowship in Botanical Research, Highlands Biological
Station, 2005. |
Biomedical
Engineering:
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Congratulations to VT-WFU SBES students Scott Gayzik, Amber Bonivtch and Kerry Danelson.
Press Release…
F. Scott Gayzik, Amber R. Bonivtch, and Kerry A. Danelson, a team of graduate students working at the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics has won an international design competition sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The project took first prize at this year’s Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference in Lyon, France. The competition included eight other teams representing North America, Asia, and Europe.
The winning project, entitled “Design, Development, and Analysis of a Pulmonary Surrogate for use in ATDs,” involved development of a surrogate lung for use in crash test dummies to improve vehicle safety. Using pressure sensors, the lung model measures localized pressure spikes seen by the lung in vehicle impact testing. This tool can be developed to relate pressure data to injury levels and provide a predictor for occupant protection of the vehicle being tested. Also, by estimating the relatively low cost of such a tool, the students were able to show significant value in collecting and analyzing pressure information.
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The
Department of Biomedical Engineering has been honored with a special award by
the nine-state Southeastern Region of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). The award citation reads, "In recognition of many supporting
contributions to the IEEE Winston-Salem Section and Region 3." The IEEE wanted
to recognize the department's "consistent support during the past years with numerous
IEEE activities."
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Samir
Shah |
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Feb 2006 40
Leaders Under 40 Award (Triad, NC Business Journal). |
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Mar
2005 Career Technical Education Award (W-S / Forsyth County Schools). |
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Outstandarding
Poster Presentation, "Quantification of Biopolymer Filament Structure",
at the NIH Polymer Networks Conference, August 13-16, 2004, Bethesda, MD. |
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Received
an Honorable Mention for his submission to the 2003 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Awards. |
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Chair,
EMBS Student Club - 1st Annual Winston-Salem,/Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition,
April 24, 2004. Click here to view IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine article. |
Cancer
Biology:
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Dana Upton — |
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Received an honorable mention award by the Molecular Biology Specialty Section and has been invited to the Molecular Biology Specialty Section Meeting and Social on Tuesday March 27th at 6:00 PM. |
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Selected to receive an award for best paper from the Carcinogenesis Specialty Section. Dana has also been invited to be a student member on the executive committee for the CSS for one year. The award will be presented at the CSS business meeting to the SOT annual meeting on March 28, 2007. |
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Steve J. Kridel — |
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Award:
Participated in the recent RCSB PDB Poster Prize competitions for best student poster related to macromolecular crystallography. The award at the American Crystallographic
Association's Annual Meeting (July 22-27; Honolulu, Hawaii) was a tie: "Thioesterase
domain of human fatty acid synthase: structural insights into chain-length selectivity." Co-Authors: Charles W. Pemble, Steve J. Kridel, and Todd T. Lowther. |
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Stephanie
Dance |
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Stephanie has been selected to attend the first annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival and present her poster. The event is scheduled for October 12 – 13, 2006 on the main campus of the NIH in Bethesda, MD. |
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Selected as
one of the recipients of a 2006 AACR Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research
for participation in the 97th AACR Annual Meeting
taking place April 1-5, 2006 in Washington, DC. |
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Recipient
of the American Foundation for Aging Research-GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Award.
The award of $2,000.00 is good for this semester (fall 2006) and can be renewed for an additional semester, as well. |
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Mary
Kushman |
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2002-2005 Graduate Fellowship Recipient, NIEHS Training Grant in Molecular Toxicology, Department of Cancer
Biology and Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. |
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Beth
Van Emburgh |
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Awarded a Dissertation Research
Award from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, project title: "Metabolic genotypes and tumor suppressor gene damage in breast cancer." This $30,000 fellowship grant is for senior graduate students who are close to finishing
up their research. The grant will run from May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2006. |
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Beth,
a 5th year graduate student, tied with another individual from CIIT to win the
Best Presentation Award at the annual fall meeting of the Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society. This is the 6th year in a row that a Cancer Biology student from Wake Forest has
walked away with the top award from this local scientific meeting. |
Chemistry:
Communication:
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Mayank Gupta |
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Student Scriptwriting Competition (National), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), 2006. |
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Suchi
Pradyumn Joshi |
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Richter
Fellowship Award, Wake Forest University, 2005. |
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Alumni
Student Travel Award, Wake Forest University, 2005. |
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Donohew
Fellowship Award, University of Kentucky, 2006. |
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Diversity
Fellowship Award, Texas A&M University, 2006. |
Comparative
Medicine:
Computer
Science:
Counseling:
Education:
English:
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Susan
Batten |
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Presented
her paper; "The Once and Future Queen: Feminist Readings of Wace's Roman
de Brut" at the following conferences: the EGSA at UNC-Charlotte, January 26, 2006, the Medieval and Renaissance Symposium at UNC-Chapel Hill, February 3-4 2006, and the Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque Symposium at the University of Miami, Feb 23- 26. |
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Jennifer
Simpler |
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Will present
her paper "Loyal Laborers: Laboring Class Characterization in the Justification
of the Social Hierarchy in W. Gilmore Simmss _The Yemassee_." at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature's Biennial Conference at Birmingham, AL (March 30-April 2, 2006. |
Health
& Exercise Science:
Health
Sciences Research:
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Susan
G. Lakoski, MD |
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Awarded
by the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention the Sandra Daugherty Award for
Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension
Epidemiology at the 45th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
and Prevention, Washington, D.C., April
29 - May 2, 2005. |
MALS(Liberal Studies)
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Terri
Dowell-Dennis |
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Terri's
sculpture entitled "Twelve" is part of an exhibition in the R.J.
Reynolds Gallery at the Sawtooth Center in downtown Winston-Salem. The group exhibition, "Scale/Shift" is on view until February 25, and
features sculptures that involve enlargement or reduction of recognizable
objects.
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Barbara
Bowling |
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Barbara's
essay, "/Ishmael:/ Messianic Message at the End of Days" was selected
for publication in the upcoming "Philomathesian", Journal of
Wake Forest University. |
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Jim
Bowling |
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Jim's essay,
"Ibsen's /The Wild Duck:/ The Implications of Accepting Truth as the Normative
Guide to Living" has been selected for publication in
the spring issue of the "Philomathesian" Journal of Wake Forest University. |
Mathematics:
MD/PhD:
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Jennifer Martelle |
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Jenn, a PhD candidate in the dual program in Physiology and Pharmacology has just received 4 year National Research
Service Award (NRSA), August 2006. |
Microbiology
and Immunology:
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Anne
H. Tart |
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Thoyd Melton
Award, American Society of Microbiology, North Carolina Branch, 2003 and 2005. |
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship,
American Heart Association, Mid-Atlantic Division, 2005-present. |
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Student
Travel Award, American Society of Microbiology, 2005. |
Molecular
and Cellular Pathobiology:
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This
is a research intensive interdisciplinary program. For a complete listing of MacPath
Student Awards, Honors, and Presentations, please visit the following website:http://www.wfubmc.edu/lipidsci/graduate/students/awards.htm.
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Thomas A.
Bell III |
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Travel Grant, Wake Forest and Brigham and Women's Center for Botanical Lipids, 2006. |
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New
Investigator Travel Award: Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, 2006. |
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New Investigator
Travel Award, ATVB Conference, April 21, 2005. Poster Presentation: "Inhibition
of Hepatic ACAT2 by Antisense Oligonucleotides
Reduces Atherogenic Lipoprotein Concentrations in ApoB100 Only/LDL Receptor Null
Mice" |
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New
Investigator Travel Award: Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, August 21, 2005. Poster
Presentation: "Monounsaturated Fatty AcylCoA is Predictive of Atherosclerosis in Human ApoB100 Transgenic, LDL Receptor Null Mice" |
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Jennifer
Cann, DVM |
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Presentation:
American College of Veterinary Pathologists 56th Annual Meeting, December 3-7,
2005. "Fatal Melioidosis in Two Recently Imported Cynomolgus Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)" |
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Anny
Mulya |
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One of five finalist for the Junior Investigator Award for Women sponsored by the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology of the American Heart Association. 2007 |
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New Investigator
Travel Award, 7th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular
Biology, Denver, CO, April 27-29, 2006. |
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AHA Mid-Atlantic Affiliate
Predoctoral Fellowship for Research at WFUSM, July 2005 - June 2007. "Heterogeneity
of pre-beta HDL: Mechanisms of assembly and
in-vivo metabolism" |
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New
Investigator Travel Award, Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, August 21, 2005. Poster
Presentation: "Minimal Lipidation of apoA-I by ABCA1 forms heterogeneous-sized pre-beta HDL particles with reduced ability to
interact with ABCA1" |
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Donna
Perry |
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Poster Presentation:
14th Annual Meeting of the Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology, February
12, 2005. "The Histopathologic Effects
of Soy-Derived Isoflavones on the Prostate Gland" |
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Poster
Presentation: 6th International Symposium on the Role of Soy in Preventing and
Treating Chronic Disease, October 30 - November
2, 2005. "Dietary Soy Isoflavones Have No Adverse Effects on the Nonhuman
Primate Prostate, Testis, or Mammary Gland" |
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Christopher
T. Starost Memorial Oncology Scholarship Second Place Award. 56th Annual Meeting
of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists,
December 3-7, 2005. "The Effects of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Prostatic
Adenocarcnoma Development in the Prostate-Specific
PTEN Knockout Murine Model" |
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Jenelle
Timmins |
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New Investigator
Travel Award, Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, August 2005. "Hepatic ABCA1
partitions newly synthesized lipid between nascent hepatic HDL and VLDL particles" |
Molecular
Genetics and Genomics:
Molecular
Medicine:
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Research Awards Show Success of Training Program. |
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Amber Pittman Barnes |
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Gertrude Clinton Health Career Scholarship, Gaston Memorial Hospital. 2000-2006. |
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Daniel Eberli, MD |
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Awa rds:
Gebert Rüf Stiftung Research Award, Basel, Switzerland, 2005
Research Award of the Swiss Urological Association, 2006
Recognized by the National Institute of Health (NIH), 2006
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, 2007
Best Reviewer of the Journal of Urology, Journal of Urology, 2007.
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JaNae
Joyner |
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Awards:
(1) 2006 Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM) Young Investigator Award
(travel award to attend and present at FASEB, 2006 meeting).
(2) Travel award to attend 2005 Young Investigator Award awarded by the North American Society for the Study of Hypertension and Pregnancy (NASSHP).
(3) 2005 Manchester Whos Who Among Executive and Professional Women in Research
and Science.
(4) Inducted as a new member into: American Physiological Society Society for Experimental
Biology and Medicine.
(5) Awarded $40,000 from the AHA to study pregnancy-induced blood pressure. |
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Abstracts:
(1) Joyner, J, Neves, LAA, Chappell, MC, Gallagher,
PE, Ferrario, CM, Brosnihan, KB. Temporal-spatial expression of Ang-(1-7) and
;ACE2 in association with ACE2 activity and mRNA
in the kidney of normal and RUPP pregnant rats. FASEB (San Francisco, CA, April
1-5, 2006).
(2) Joyner, J, Neves, LAA, Chappell, MC, Gallagher, PE, Ferrario, CM, Brosnihan, KB.
Temporal-spatial expression of Ang-(1-7) and ACE2
in association with ACE2 activity and mRNA in the kidney of normal and RUPP pregnant
rats. North Carolina Academy of Science
Annual Meeting (Bennett College, Greensboro, NC, February 24, 2006).
(3) Joyner, J, Neves, LAA, Gallagher, PE, Chappell, MC, Ferrario, CM, Brosnihan, KB.
Kidney ACE2 mRNA and Activity in Virgin and Normal
Pregnant Sprague Dawley Rats. 15th Annual Triangle Consortium for Reproductive
Biology (UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC February
10, 06). |
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Oral
Presentations:
(1) Joyner, J, Neves, LA, Granger, JP, Alexander, BT, Merrill, DC, Ferrario, CM, Brosnihan,
KB.
(2) Temporal-spatial Expression of ACE2 and Ang-(1-7) in the Kidney of Normal and
RUPP Pregnant Rats.
(3) North American Society for the Study of Hypertension
and Pregnancy (NASSHP). August, 12-14, 2005. |
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Invited Guest Speaker/Oral
Presentation: Joyner,
J, Neves, LA, Granger, JP, Alexander, BT, Merrill, DC, Ferrario, CM, Brosnihan,
KB. The doorways of life: keep knocking. Mount
Olive College Alumni Weekend. November 19, 05. |
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Lan Coffman — |
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Award: $40,000 from the American Heart Association (AHA) to study the formation and growth of blood vessels that supply tumors. |
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Dawn Delo — |
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Award: $126,500 from the NIH to pursue a cardiovascular regenerative medicine project. |
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Manisha Nautiyal — |
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Award: $40,000 from the AHA to study enzymes involved in muscle wasting. |
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Jill Wykosky — |
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Award: $125,000 from the NIH to develop anti-cancer drugs to target cells of the most deadly type of brain tumor. |
Neurobiology
and Anatomy:
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Students
from the Neurobiology and Anatomy Program have received local, regional, and national
awards for their research. |
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Samuel
Franklin |
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Travel Award to attend and
present a poster at the AAA Meeting in the Spring of 2006. |
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Carla
Lema |
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Travel
Award to attend ENI-Net Christmas Meeting, Alicante, Spain, December 21-22, 2005 (http://www.ina.umh.es/eni/eni.htm). |
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Anna Taylor |
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SfN Chapters/Eli Lily Graduate
Student Travel Award. |
Neuroscience:
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Exazevia Logan |
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Exazevia, a fifth-year neuroscience student, was awarded a National Research Service Award from the NIH. The title of Exazevia's research is "The Role of Signal Transduction Pathways in Hypertension".Exazevia's advisor is Dr. Debra Diz in the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. |
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Kelly Conner |
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Please join the Neuroscience Program in congratulating Kelly Conner, a fourth-year neuroscience student, for receiving a National Research Service Award from NIH. Her research area is radiation-induced brain injury. Kelly's advisor is Dr. David Riddle in the Department of Neurobiology/Anatomy. |
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Tiffany
Fisher |
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Please join
the Neuroscience program in congratulating Tiffany on her sole-authored paper
which was accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience in
the "Journal Club" section. The article is entitled "A Spotlight
on the Searchlight". Drs. Dwayne Godwin and Emilio Salinas are her advisors. |
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Grant-in-Aid of Research Award, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2006 |
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Minority Neuroscience Fellowship, Society for Neuroscience, 2003-2006.
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John Graef |
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Selected
as one of 10 recipients to receive a $500 American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
Travel Award for Young Neuroscientists to attend the
Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, March 1-4, 2006. The American Psychosomatic Society
is launching an initiative to foster growth of the
new field called brain-body medicine, and they are interested in young scientists
who seek to apply neuroscientific methods to advance the
understanding of causes and development of systemic medical disorders. |
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John Graef and Justin
Rawley |
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Each student
received a $500 travel award sponsored by Fine Science Tools to attend the Annual
Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meeting. Both John and
Justin are first authors on abstracts being presented at the 2006 SFN Conference
which will be held in Atlanta, GA, October 14-18, 2006. |
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Georgia M. Alexander
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Ruth K. Broad Biomedical
Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award - Duke University, 2006. |
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Grants-In-Aid Research Award
"Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Modulation of Primary Visual Cortex Input to
Thalamus" - Sigma Xi, 2005. |
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Individual
Predoctoral National Research Service Award "Epilepsy Therapy Using Metabotropic
Glutamate Receptors" - National Institutes of Health, 2004-2006. |
PhD/MBA:
Physics:
Physiology
and Pharmacology:
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Matthew Banks |
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David K. Sundberg Award, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2007. |
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Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience, 2006. |
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Early Career Investigator Travel Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2006. |
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Individual Predoctoral National Research Service Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2005-2007. |
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Erin
Shannon |
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Predoctoral
National Research Service Award National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
2005-2006. |
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Carrie
E. John |
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National
Research Service Award National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003-2006. |
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Alumni
Student Travel Award Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
2004, 2005. |
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Gathering
of Nobel Laureates: Science for the 21st Century The Echo Foundation 2005. |
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David K. Sundberg Award WFUSM
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology 2005. |
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Irwin
J. Kopin Traveling Fellowship Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines 2005. |
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Travel Award International
Society for Neurochemistry 2005. |
Psychology:
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Joshua Wilt |
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WFU Graduate School's Alumni Student Travel Award, 2007. |
Religion:
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In
mid-March 2005 the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion held
its annual meetings in Winston-Salem, and past and present members of the Religion
graduate program played a role. |
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Megan
Moore, MA'97, just received her PhD in Old Testament from Emory University in
December. She gave a paper on "Objectivity and Questions of Evidence for Interpreting Archaeology and Writing History." |
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Andrea
Ogier, MA '04, spoke on "Relieving Delilah: Three Women and the Betrayal of
Cultural Distinction in Judges 14-16." |
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Trais
Pearson, currently in the program, presented on "Upayakausalya: Upaya and Its
Function in Religious Pluralism. |
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OF INFORMATION
William
Randolph Hearst Minority Assistantships:
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For the first time ever, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has named three
students as recipients of the William Randolph Hearst Minority Assistantships
for under-represented minority students entering a PhD program in Biology, Chemistry
or Physics. Each one-year assistantship provides a full tuition scholarship and
a calendar year stipend of at least $16,500. |
2007
The Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Master's and Doctoral Student Award:
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The 1st Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Hooding and Awards Ceremony was held
on May 14, 2000. At that time Dean Melson created the Outstanding Doctoral Student
Award. The following year an additional award was given to the Outstanding Master's
Student. In honor of Dean Melson's retirement on June 30, 2006, the award is now known as the Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
In addition, an endowment has been created to fund the cash award given. The recipients
of the 2007 student awards will be honored at the Hooding and Awards Ceremony on
May 12, 2007.
- Master's
award Ms. Amy Olex, Computer Science (Advisor, Dr. Jacque Fetron)
- Doctoral
award Dr. Daniel Eberli, Molecular Medicine (Advisor, Dr. Anthony Atala)
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2007
Faculty Excellence Award:
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The Graduate Student Council would like to congratulate Dr. Laura Veach, of the Counseling Department, on being selected to receive the 2007 GSA Faculty Excellence Award. Dr. Veach was chosen for her outstanding commitment to graduate students and the graduate program at Wake Forest University. Dr. Veach was nominated by Elizabeth Hodges, also of the Counseling Department. |
2007 Richter
Scholars Program:
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Wake
Forest University has received a grant from the Richter Fellowship Office for
the eight year in a row for graduate student travel. WFU is currently the only
university receiving money from this fund for graduate student travel.
This year there were 13 project proposals from the Reynolda Campus. As always,
a project had to combine a research experience along with involvement with the
local culture. Because of the quality of the applications, the choice was a difficult
one. However, the committee choose three students to be recipients. We congratulate
them and wish them an interesting and educational trip. |
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| Recipients |
Advisor |
Department |
| Hannah Godwin |
Dr.
Miriam Jacobson |
English |
| Hannah will take part in English literature studies at the University of Oxford in England. |
| Parissa Jahromi |
Dr. Christy Buchanan |
Psychology |
| Parissa will travel to Singapore in order to study cross cultural attitudes and behaviors regarding civil engagement in adolescents. |
| Daniel Johnson |
Dr.
Claudia Kairoff |
English |
| Daniel will retrace the 1773 journey of Samuel Johnson through Scotland, and will produce a DVD. |
| Scott Meltsner |
Dr.
Sam Gladding |
Counseling |
| Scott will observe and study in the area of domestic abuse with various agencies in South Africa. |
| Jennifer Rogers |
Dr.
Sam Gladding |
Counseling |
| Jennifer will receive intensive training in the area of holistic counseling in Florence, Italy. |
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