Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society Recruitment Beta Beta Beta, the Biology Honor Society on campus, is beginning the process to recruit new members for the 2023-2024 year! What is Tri-Beta?: Beta Beta Beta is an honors society for students, particularly undergraduates, dedicated to improving understanding and appreciation of biological study and extending boundaries…
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 to Una Wilson! The Pulitzer Center awarded a fellowship to Una Wilson to be Wake Forest’s 2023 Reporting Fellow. The Pulitzer Center awards reporting fellowships to students from its Campus Consortium partners to cover a wide range of issues from climate change to migration and refugees. They receive funding and mentorship to report from…
Congratulations to the #Classof2023! 💛🎩 From the entire WFU Biology department: “We appreciate your dedication and efforts to support the missions of the Department and University. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. Congratulations, #WFU23!”
AWARDS Foster Pierce won the Elton C. Cocke Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student. Natalie Ellis won the Walter S. Flory Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Biology. Trey Ursillo won the Carolina Biological Supply Company Award for Undergraduate Research. Trey received Honors in Biology working in the lab of Professor David Anderson. The title of…
RETIRING FACULTY The following faculty members are retiring in the 2022-2023 Academic Year. Thank you for your incredible dedication and commitment over the years! Dr. Wayne L. Silver FACULTY AWARDS Dr. Regina Joice Cordy was awarded the Award for Excellence in Research at WFU. The Award for Excellence in Research recognizes a faculty member…
The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Professor Wayne Silver on the occasion of his retirement. Congratulations, Wayne! His service to the department, to the college, and to the institution has been exemplary and he has been a university leader in promoting the values…
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…
The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Professor William Conner on the occasion of his retirement. Congratulations, Bill! Bill’s service as the Faculty Director of the WFU Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Program, from 2010 to 2016, inspired him to help students build bridges between…
The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Professor Robert Browne on the occasion of his retirement. Thank you, Bob! Bob’s leadership provided the foundation for the current version of the environmental minors and the recently inaugurated environmental majors. He mentored many students who shared…
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