FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Chair of Biology We thank and appreciate Dr. Erik C. Johnson, Professor of Biology, for his continued leadership and strong service as Chair of Biology! His reappointment will commence on July 1, 2025. Associate Chair of Biology Dr. Sarah McDonald Esstman, Professor of Biology, has been newly appointed as Associate Chair of Biology,…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Sheri Floge‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: A matter of life & death: Assessing bacterioplankton as sources of vitamin B1 and vitamers to the surface ocean” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Ke Reid‘s proposal…
RETIRING FACULTY The following faculty members are retiring in the 2023-2024 Academic Year. Thank you for your incredible dedication and commitment over the years! Dr. James F. Curran Dr. David J. Anderson Dr. William K. Smith FACULTY TENURE AND PROMOTIONS Congratulations to the following faculty members who have received promotions, effective July 1, 2024:…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Nicholas Kortessis‘ proposal entitled “IHBEM: The fear of here: Integrating place-based travel behavior and detection into novel infectious disease models” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “Investigating the role of…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. James Pease‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: Integrating fossils, phylogenomics, and statistical machine learning to reveal population drivers of Cretaceous angiosperm innovations” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “A systems biology…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. James Pease‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: BEE: Bridging the ecology and evolution of East African Acacias across time and space: genomics, ecosystem, and diversification” has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “Advanced…
RETIRING FACULTY The following faculty members are retiring in 2020-2021. Thank you for your incredible dedication and commitment over the years! Dr. Carole L. Gibson Dr. Kathleen A. Kron FACULTY AWARDS Dr. Regina Joice Cordy was awarded the Graduate Student Association Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentorship at WFU. FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS Dr. Sarah…
Associate Professor of Biology Sarah Esstman has been awarded the Robert and Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship. This three-year award is given by the College in recognition of Dr. Esstman’s outstanding record of teaching and scholarship. Since joining the Biology faculty in 2017, Professor Esstman has taught courses in virology and molecular biology and led a…
The news service article by Laurie Willis features Dr. Sarah McDonald Esstman and her students studying the COVID-19 pandemic. Students in biology professor Sarah McDonald Esstman’s virology class spent several weeks exploring COVID-related topics for a course project. Groups named the virologists, the physicians, the epidemiologists, the immunologists, the communicators and the policy makers –…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Ke Zhang‘s proposal entitled “Investigation of multifunctional proteins that integrate packaging RNPs, RNA export, and translation” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “A systems biology investigation of the interplay…
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