Faculty Honors & Announcements 2023
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...
Teacher-Scholar Legacies: Wayne Silver
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...
Special Event: Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Special WFU Biology seminar and event to be held by Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr. on Monday, April 3, 2023. Dr. Graves is the first African American evolutionary biologist in the country, and is a world-renowned advocate for evolutionary medicine. At 4 pm in Winston Hall 126 & Online, Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., N.C....
Interested in PhD or Master’s programs in Biology?
Interested in PhD or Master’s programs in Biology? Join us on November 21, 2022, at 5 PM (ET) for a virtual session to learn more about Wake Forest University’s Biology graduate programs! 🎩 You’ll get to hear about full stipend support, full tuition remission, research mentors in diverse fields, and integrative research training in a...
Proposals Funded in 2022
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...
Muday featured by Food and Environment Reporting Network
The work of Professor of Biology, Dr. Gloria Muday, and her team consisting of WFU undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs is featured in an article by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. The article focuses on how climate change, in particular higher temperatures, is threatening the world’s food supply and how research taking place is making...
Teacher-Scholar Legacies: William Conner
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...
Teacher-Scholar Legacies: Robert Browne
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...