Month: March 2014
14th Annual WFU Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Day
The 14th Annual WFU Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Day will be held on Mar. 28 at Biotech Place from 1 – 5 PM. This year’s event will include student posters and a new 3‐minute thesis (3MT) oral competition. Please be sure to attend in order to support our students and postdocs as they present…
Congratulations to John Tomlinson
Congratulations to John Tomlinson, who received a promotion to the rank of Associate Teaching Professor. This promotion recognizes John’s strong and sustained commitment to teaching and student engagement and his excellent record of service.
The American Chemical Society Preparing for Life After Graduate School Workshop
“The American Chemical Society Preparing for Life After Graduate School Workshop” Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC The Chemistry Department at Wake Forest University is pleased to host a one-day comprehensive workshop entitled “Preparing For Life After Graduate School,” facilitated by the American Chemical Society, on Friday, April 11, 2014. An optional second…
Deacon Profile: Christa Colyer
“Christa Colyer is a professor of chemistry and the chair of the chemistry department. She earned a bachelor of science from Trent University in Peterborough, Canada and a masters from the University of Guelph. She received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Canada and has taught at Wake Forest since 2004.” Read Dr. Colyer’s profile…
New Chemistry Majors
The Chemistry Department welcomes 53 new chemistry majors who declared their major during the recent mass declaration period (or earlier this academic year). Thanks to new advisors Lindsay Comstock, Paul Jones, and Amanda Jones for their willingness to help us accommodate this large group of new students (perhaps the largest group of new majors that…
Beckman Scholars Program Award
Congratulations to Rebecca Alexander and URECA (along with Linda Luvaas of Corporate & Foundation Relations and members of the Physics and Biology Departments) who contributed to the successful Beckman Scholars Program award. WFU is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive this prestigious award, which will provide support for undergraduate research.
The birds and the bees of proteins
“Proteins are the worker bees of cells. They get rid of waste, transmit cellular signals and carry out the chemical reactions that enable the human body to function. Without proteins, cells would be unable to function, replicate, and die. This is not always a bad thing though, said Leuchter, a chemistry major who has been…
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