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Category: CINCIA

Proposals Funded in 2024

October 11, 2024
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| CINCIA, Faculty, Gloria Muday, Honors and Announcements, Ke Zhang Reid, Miles Silman, Miriam Ashley-Ross, Nicholas Kortessis, Regina Cordy, research, Sarah McDonald Esstman, Sheri Floge, Staff, STEM
WFU Biology Announcements

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…

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Posted in CINCIA, Faculty, Gloria Muday, Honors and Announcements, Ke Zhang Reid, Miles Silman, Miriam Ashley-Ross, Nicholas Kortessis, Regina Cordy, research, Sarah McDonald Esstman, Sheri Floge, Staff, STEM

Proposals Funded in 2023

October 3, 2023
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| CINCIA, Faculty, Gloria Muday, Honors and Announcements, Ke Zhang Reid, Miles Silman, Miriam Ashley-Ross, muday, Nicholas Kortessis, Regina Cordy, Sarah McDonald Esstman, Staff
WFU Biology Announcements

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…

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Posted in CINCIA, Faculty, Gloria Muday, Honors and Announcements, Ke Zhang Reid, Miles Silman, Miriam Ashley-Ross, muday, Nicholas Kortessis, Regina Cordy, Sarah McDonald Esstman, Staff

Amazon Forests Poisoned by Mercury from Illegal Gold Mining

January 30, 2022
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| CINCIA, ecology, Miles Silman, Outreach
illicit gold mining

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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Proposals Funded in 2021

November 8, 2021
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| CINCIA, Clifford Zeyl, Faculty, Gloria Muday, graduate, Heather Brown-Harding, Honors and Announcements, James Pease, Miles Silman, Regina Cordy, research, Sarah McDonald Esstman, T. Michael Anderson
WFU Biology Announcements

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…

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Posted in CINCIA, Clifford Zeyl, Faculty, Gloria Muday, graduate, Heather Brown-Harding, Honors and Announcements, James Pease, Miles Silman, Regina Cordy, research, Sarah McDonald Esstman, T. Michael Anderson

Dr. Miles Silman Researches Ways to Protect the Amazon

August 28, 2019
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Photo: Amazonian Landscape

Bob Buckley, reporter for My Fox News Channel 8, talked with Dr. Miles Silman about the research he has been doing with Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) to reduce illegal gold mining and protect the Peruvian rain forest. We think of organisms out in the wild as just adornments – you…

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USAID awards an additional $2.14 million to WFU Rainforest Research Center

April 23, 2019
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Dr. Miles Silman active research in Peru

Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) has received $2.14 million in additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). We’re connecting what we do at the university – using the foundations of a liberal arts education to put science to its practical uses and make a difference in the real…

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