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,…
The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Teaching Professor Pat C.W. Lord on the occasion of her retirement. Congratulations, Pat! Dr. Lord has been one of the most versatile educators in the Biology Department, teaching a wide range of courses during her 25-year career…
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:…
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 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…
Congratulations, Jennifer Howard! Jennifer Howard received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, for her important contributions to developing new laboratory exercises in BIO 101, for her mentoring of other graduate students in teaching, and for her education and outreach managing a Biology department @wfubiology social media account [Twitter] and communication. (Jennifer plans to defend her PhD…
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 to WFU Biology undergraduate students, Hannah G. Watson and Andrew T. Ashchi! Earthworm Head was selected as one of the 8 best photos contributed to the 2019’s Wikipedia Science Photography Competition. Scanning electron micrograph of a newly hatched European Nighcrawler (Eisenia hortensis) by Hannah G. Watson, Andrew T. Aschi, Dr. Glen Marrs, and Dr….
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million grant to a team of Wake Forest researchers led by Dr. Gloria Muday. The research team also included Dr. James B. Pease, Assistant Professor of Biology, and a previous undergraduate student of Muday’s at Wake Forest: Dr. Mark A. Johnson (’93). This grant will help…
Birds 101: Wake Forest students head to Florida to find birds follows the story of Dr. David J. Anderson and Riley Herriman (’22), Wake Forest’s Communications & External Relations’ student photographer, over the Spring Break 2020 course BIO 255, Bird Taxonomy, trip to Florida. Dr. Anderson has been teaching this course since 1996. Our department…
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