Dr. Christa Colyer was selected to the Robert & Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30. The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship Program is a program of financial support designed to honor our best teacher-scholars.
Dr. Al Rives was selected to receive the Gale Family Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30, 2018. The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship Program is a program of financial support designed to honor our best teacher-scholars.
Chemistry Department alumnus, Zach Hood (BS 2013) recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship, to puruse Ph.D. studies beginning this fall with Dr. Younan Xia at Georgia Tech. Zach will enjoy a joint appointment with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and he plans to conduct research in the area of materials science with applications to energy and…
6 Chemistry majors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society, on April 14, 2015. The inductees from Chemistry are: Andrew Camp, Nicole Kus, Courtney Smith, Leonardo Tjahjono, Mariah Wright, and Hunter Yancey.
Please congratulate Courtney Smith on her selection to the 2015 Senior Showcase program sponsored by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Courtney Smith will be representing Division V and showcasing her research project titled: “Mechanism of Action of Metronidazole, a Nitroheterocyclic Antibiotic” Courtney is a Chemistry and Biology double major from Windham, New Hampshire. She has worked…
Wednesday, April 1 at 11:00am to 12:00pm Wingate Hall, Room 202 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 Dr. Rebecca Alexander, professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University, will deliver a public lecture on women in science. View Calendar Event This lecture is made possible through a grant received by the School of Divinity from American…
The Wake Forest Chemistry Department will be well-represented at the National American Chemical Society Meeting in Denver, CO next week (3/22/2015 – 3/26/2015). Prof. Uli Bierbach will be presiding over a technical session and giving a talk. His graduate student Song Ding will be presenting a poster. Prof. Dave Wren and Prof. Amanda Jones and…
Dr. Amanda Jones was selected to speak at the “Young Academic Investigators” symposium for the Fall 2015 ACS meeting in Boston. The symposium will consist of 16 pre‐tenure professors and will highlight the vitality of research in the field of organic chemistry. For more information, visit: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/boston—fall-2015.html
Chemistry professor uses Hogwarts-styled ‘House Cup’ challenge to improve learning Organic chemistry students choose House Cup teams. Professor Angela King had an OMG moment last year at a teaching retreat, which led her to change how her organic chemistry classes operate. King realized, “What a student expects to learn and how they expect to do…
Theresa A. Swanson Isbell successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Protein and opioid analysis by capillary electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescence and mass spectrometry detection,” in December 2014, and she will begin a new position as an analytical chemist at Mayne Pharma (Greenville, NC) on March 9, 2015. Mayne Pharma was founded as a contract analytical…
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