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Author: Biology Department

Muday featured by Food and Environment Reporting Network

June 24, 2022
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| Environment, Faculty, Gloria Muday, insects, muday, plants
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The work of Professor of Biology, Dr. Gloria Muday, and her team consisting of WFU undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs is featured in an article by the Food and Environment Reporting Network.  The article focuses on how climate change, in particular higher temperatures, is threatening the world’s food supply and how research taking place is making…

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Posted in Environment, Faculty, Gloria Muday, insects, muday, plants

Podcast Featuring Peter Weigl

May 18, 2022
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| Biodiversity, Peter Weigl
Photo PD Weigl

Need a quick listen?  We’ve got a nice piece of science journalism and human interest story combined. Podcast host Elena Marsh interviewed Peter Weigl on his career and his stewardship of Wake Forest University’s Vertebrate Collection.  Weigl reflects on his career as a Biologist along with the many research uses of the Vertebrate Collection.  Its…

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Sixteen Undergraduates Awarded 2022 Sullivan Scholarships

February 18, 2022
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| David Anderson, Funding, Miles Silman, T. Michael Anderson, undergraduate
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Sullivan Scholarships are designated “for expanding biological horizons.” Funds for undergraduate travel are provided from an endowment based on a bequest from the late Professor of Biology, Dr. Robert L. Sullivan. Students receiving awards this year will use them during spring break or summer to participate in field courses led by Wake Forest faculty. These courses are Bird…

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Posted in David Anderson, Funding, Miles Silman, T. Michael Anderson, undergraduate

Pandemic 101

February 8, 2022
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| Bioethics, cell biology, Pat Lord, Teaching, undergraduate
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The pandemic of 2020-21 (and 2022) came as no surprise to Wake Forest Biology Teaching Professor Pat Lord (Ph.D. 1986).  She has been teaching about pandemics years before the Covid-19 outbreak.  Pat Lord’s career has revolved around the teaching and research of virology– her work showed that a pandemic was in our past, present, and…

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Posted in Bioethics, cell biology, Pat Lord, Teaching, undergraduate

Former Wake Forest Biology Ph.D. Reviews Challenges Posed by “Forever Compounds” in Science

February 6, 2022
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| Avian Biology, ecology, Environment
photo jill awkerman

Awkerman on Challenges Posed by “Forever Compounds” Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in manufactured products as diverse as fast-food containers and fire-suppressant foam have been called  “forever chemicals” because of their extreme persistence. What happens when the environment is contaminated by chemicals that resist degradation? What are the impacts on human and ecosystem health?…

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Posted in Avian Biology, ecology, Environment

Silman Quoted in Scientific American

February 2, 2022
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| Biodiversity, Miles Silman
Photo: Amazonian Landscape

A piece in Scientific American that covers a new global assessment of tree biodiversity shows that there are roughly 9,200 tree species yet to be discovered, suggesting that the world’s woods may hold more secrets than previously imagined. According to recent research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on Monday, the…

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Amazon Forests Poisoned by Mercury from Illegal Gold Mining

January 30, 2022
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| CINCIA, ecology, Miles Silman, Outreach
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The study, “Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From Artisanal Gold Mining,” appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research study was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University. Wake Forest Biology Professor Miles Silman and Wake Forest Research Professor Luis Fernandez mentored Gerson’s work at…

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Posted in CINCIA, ecology, Miles Silman, Outreach

Search: Assistant Professor Quantitative Ecology

October 12, 2021
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| ecology, employment, Faculty, research, Teaching
Posters at grad research day

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative Ecology, Department of Biology The Wake Forest University Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantitative Ecology who studies natural populations, communities, or ecosystems. We seek a colleague answering fundamental questions about organisms in natural environments, using expertise in statistical inference, quantitative methods, and/or mathematical modelling….

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Posted in ecology, employment, Faculty, research, Teaching

Job Searches 2022: Neuroethologist, Cell/Molecular Biologist, Quantitative Ecologist

September 28, 2021
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| cell biology, ecology, employment, Neuroscience, research
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The Department of Biology at Wake Forest University invites applications for three full-time, tenure-track faculty positions, with a start date of July 1, 2022. We are seeking candidates in the disciplines of neuroethology, quantitative ecology, and molecular cell biology. Candidates for the neuroethologist position will study natural behavior in animals using any combination of networking,…

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Posted in cell biology, ecology, employment, Neuroscience, research

Congratulations – Regina Cordy and Graduates!

May 18, 2021
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| alumni, graduate, Honors and Announcements, Regina Cordy
Photo Regina Cordy

Dr. Regina Cordy, Assistant Professor of Biology, was awarded the Graduate Student Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentorship.  We offer her a hearty congratulations for the honor! We also honor our Graduate Students that finished their Ph.D. in the past year.  It was a trying to for all, but especially for our graduate students that…

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Posted in alumni, graduate, Honors and Announcements, Regina Cordy
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