Congrats to Norman Fraley
Congratulations to Norman Fraley for the People’s Choice award at the 19th Annual Graduate Student Research Day. Watch his presentation video here
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Erika Bechtold (PhD ’10) Young Alumni Award Recipient
During Homecoming 2018, the Friends of Chemistry announced that Dr. Erika Bechtold (PhD ’10) would be the 2018 recipient of this year’s Young Alumni Award. She joins Cassidy Brown (2017), Kerry Pickin Paumi (2016) and Peter Tarsa (2015) in this list of impressive young Chemistry alumni. Erika received her undergraduate Chemistry degree at Virginia Tech…
Chemistry professor awarded senior fellowship
Professor of Chemistry Akbar Salam has been awarded a Marie S. Curie External Senior Fellowship to be held at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Teacher-Scholar Portraits: Akbar Salam
Akbar Salam is a minimalist when it comes to conducting his Chemistry research, relying on blank sheets of paper over a laboratory equipped with high-tech gear. He tends to work on quantum mechanics at a table either in his house or his temporary Winston Hall office. He’ll solve advanced math equations on paper for up…
Cassidy Brown (’06) – Young Alumni Awardee
During Homecoming 2017, the Friends of Chemistry announced that Cassidy Brown (’06) would be the 2017 recipient of this year’s Young Alumni Award. She joins Kerry Pickin Paumi (2016) and Peter Tarsa (2015) in this list of impressive young Chemistry alumni. Cassidy received her BS in Chemistry as well as a BA in History from…
The Chemistry Department Welcomes 2 New Faculty
The Chemistry Department has hired two new tenure track assistant professors this week, Dr. Elham Ghadiri and Dr. Troy Stich. Dr. Ghadiri got her BS and MS in Physics at Arak University in Iran, then her PhD in Chemistry at the Swiss Polytechnic Federal University. Most recently she has been a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical…
U. S. Patent Issued
The patent filed a year ago for the development of carbon-based catalyst for the waste-to-bioenergy conversion was issued last week. The work was done in collaboration with ORNL and was initiated by a superb collaboration between two alums: Zach Hood (chem major) and Shiba Adhikari (graduate student in Chemistry). Zach defended his PhD work last…
Dr. George Donati and Graduate Student Jake Carter Featured on Fox 8
Testing for lead in water at schools “The testing in Winston-Salem Forsyth County happened because of a research professor at Wake Forest University. Doctor George Donati won a national grant to buy a machine that tests samples to measure low concentrations of elements like lead. His graduate assistant gathered water samples from each WSFC school and…
The Traveling Community
Sometimes, you can find community in the most unlikely places, like a 25-seat black and gold shuttle bus. Students ride the shuttle to get from point A — the Reynolda Campus — to point B — Wake Downtown. But if they’re open to conversation and look up from their smartphones, they may find a friend…
WFU students to teach ‘kitchen chemistry’ to kids at Kaleideum North
“Students can only learn so much out of a book,” said Comstock-Ferguson, an associate professor of chemistry. “You can’t learn science without actually doing it. This is a great way for Wake Forest students to embody the spirit of Pro Humanitate by helping children in our community engage in the subject in a fun and interesting way.”…
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