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Wake Forest PhD Nick Hristov Featured by NPR

September 10, 2012
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| alumni, Bats, Behavior, research, William Conner

Nickolay Hristov, Professor with the UNC Center for Design Innovation and Wake Forest Biology Research Professor, does amazing research on bats. His work was featured on National Public Radio (NPR) weekly program Science Friday.  Nick received his PhD. from Wake Forest in 2008 and works closely with Professor William Conner’s laboratory.  In this Science Friday…

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Posted in alumni, Bats, Behavior, research, William Conner

Meet Miles Silman

June 7, 2012
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| Climate, ecology, plants, research, silman

Biology Professor, Miles Silman is the Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.  The WFU News Center recently posted a faculty profile on his exciting work and ongoing involvement in studying climate change, sustainability, tropical conservation, and the environment. As a conservation biologist, Miles Silman has been a leader in the sustainability movement…

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Posted in Climate, ecology, plants, research, silman

Conner Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Bat-Moth Arms Race Studies

June 6, 2012
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| Funding, insects, research, William Conner

Congratulations to William E. Conner, professor of Biology, whose proposal entitled “Acoustic Aposematism, Mimicry, and Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Posted in Funding, insects, research, William Conner

Muday Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Work on Arabadopsis

March 18, 2012
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| Funding, Gloria Muday, plants, research

Congratulations to Gloria K. Muday, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Arabidopsis 2010 Project Collaborative Research: Modeling Biological Networks in Arabidopsis through Integration of Genomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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T. Michael Anderson Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Studies of Savanna Moisture Gradients

March 11, 2012
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| ecology, Funding, plants, research, T. Michael Anderson

Congratulations to T. Michael Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research:  Mechanisms of tree recruitment limitation across a savanna soil moisture availability gradient” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Posted in ecology, Funding, plants, research, T. Michael Anderson Tagged Ecology, Research

David Anderson Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Studies of Seabird Life Histories

March 6, 2012
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| Avian Biology, Behavior, David Anderson, Funding, research

Congratulations to Dave Anderson, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “LTREB: Evolutionary Ecology of Seabird Reproductive Life Histories (DEB 0842199)” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Posted in Avian Biology, Behavior, David Anderson, Funding, research

William Smith Receives National Science Foundation Funding for Studies of Barrier Island Ecosystems

January 25, 2012
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| ecology, Funding, William Smith

Congratulations to William K. Smith, professor of biology and Charles H. Babcock chair of botany, whose proposal entitled “CBIN: A Research Network for Sustaining Barrier Island Ecosystems in a Changing Gobal Environment” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Posted in ecology, Funding, William Smith

Child Abuse in Birds?

September 29, 2011
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| Avian Biology, Behavior, David Anderson, ecology

WFU News Service, August 2011 For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild. The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest University researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are abused when they are young…

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Posted in Avian Biology, Behavior, David Anderson, ecology Tagged Avian Biology, Behavior

Conner Honored for Biology and Entrepreneurship

September 22, 2011
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| entrepreneurship, Outreach, William Conner

Professor of Biology William E. Conner has been named the first David and Lelia Farr Professor of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. The chair was established by David (’77) and Lelia (’77) Farr of St. Louis, Mo., to recognize Conner and his work with the Wake Forest Program in Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. The funding provides…

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Posted in entrepreneurship, Outreach, William Conner Tagged Entrepreneurship, Outreach

Art and Biology: What Do You See in the Andes?

September 22, 2011
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| ecology, eure, Outreach

Famous painting is ‘reading’ assignment for first-year students More than 1,200 first-year students and their advisers visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Sunday as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book before they arrived on campus, new students instead studied a painting, Frederic Church’s 1855 masterpiece, The Andes…

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Posted in ecology, eure, Outreach Tagged Andes, Outreach
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