Alumni News
Dr. Carla Lema Tome | Former Graduate Student and Current PostDoc
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WFU Professor Collaborates with Alumni to win MacArthur Foundation Award| Physics
 Two Wake Forest University alumni, Anthony Pecorella and Yuri Shtridelman, along with Jed Macosko, Assistant Professor of Physics at Wake Forest, have won a $25,000 award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in its 2009 Digital Media & Learning competition. More.... |
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Felicia Goodrum, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics| Degree Awarded 1998
Felicia Goodrum, an alumni of the WFU Graduate School of Arts and Scientist, and currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Immunobiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology and a member of the BIO5 Institute and Arizona Cancer Center, received the "Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers", the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. PECASE winners will receive up to a five-year research grant, and will be honored later this year at a White House ceremony. Goodrum was among 100 young researchers and engineers receiving the award. Click here to read more about her project . . . |
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Mary Barnhardt and Austin James | Teacher Education Program | Degrees Awarded May 2008 Two 2008 graduates of the Wake Forest Teacher Education Master's Program have been recognized by prestigious first-year teacher awards. Mary Barnhardt, who teaches Spanish at Reagan High School in Winston-Salem, is the Forsyth County First-Year Teacher of the Year. Austin James, who teaches mathematics at Millbrook High School in Raleigh, is the Wake County First-Year High School Teacher of the Year. Congraduations to both of our alumni! Dr. Leah McCoy
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Todd Atwood, PhD | Biomedical Enginering | Degree Awarded May 2008 Dr. Todd Atwood, who completed his PhD in May, 2008, won 3rd Place in the Young Investigator Symposium at the recent 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, in Houston, Texas. He presented part of his PhD work that studied human brain tumors implanted in rat brain, using the 7T MR and Gamma Knife devices. The Young Investigator Symposium is highly competitive - there were over 140 abstracts submitted, and 10 were selected for oral presentation at the symposium. Todd's presentation was one of the top three! Congratulations to Todd, who began his clinical residency in July in Radiation Oncology Physics at Stanford University! For a listing of the three YIS awards, please go to: http://www.aapm.org/org/history/2008YIS.asp.
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Poonam Narula, PhD | 1998 Chemistry Graduate | Dr. Ron Noftle Advisor
While at Wake Forest University, where she earned a PhD in chemistry, Poonam Narula was named “Outstanding Graduate Student” by the American Chemical Society in 1993. “The fi ve years that I was in graduate school trained me to be an independent scientist and gave me the tools and the confi dence to tackle real applied problems. It was at Wake Forest that I grew to a different level in my ability to conduct forward-looking research in chemistry,” she said. She was accepted into the MIT Sloan Fellows program and has loved every minute of it since. Poonam’s journey has been inspiring and interesting, and her story is just beginning here at MIT Sloan. Click here to read entire article. |
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Racquel Collins-Underwood, PhD | Cancer Biology | Degree Awarded May 2008 "I just wanted to drop you a note from Memphis. Things happened so quickly this past summer that I didn't get to say goodbye before I left Wake. I ended up getting a postdoc position at St Jude with a wonderful mentor, Charles Mullighan. It's been a great experience thus far, but it's been a very busy postdoc from day 1. I got into the lab on a Tuesday and started my first experiments the very next day, but it's already proven to be a worthwhile experience. Everyone has been wonderful, open, and collegial. AND...in our atrium hang flags that represent the countries from which St. Jude employees come, and I get my own flag as the first Filipino employee. What a great postdoc so far! I wasn't sure how prepared I was when I left Wake, but after getting here, I realize that I had underestimated my grad school experience. So I just wanted to say thank you for all you have done for me over the past 4 years. Thanks to you, I've achieved a dream 25 years in the making. I wish you much success in your careers, and I hope you continue to inspire students as you have inspired me. Thanks for everything!"
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Carrie Laughridge, MS | English| Degree Awarded May 2008 Congratulations to Carrie Butler Laughridge, who presented a paper entitled "The Stripping of Lucrece: the Material Body and the Politics of Reformation in Shakespeare" on September 27th at the 2008 Writing Into The Profession conference hosted by UNC-Greensboro. |
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Carla Lema Tome (PhD/MBA ’09) received the Wake Forest University Schools of Business Master of Business Administration Award for Academic Excellence during the Evening MBA Class of 2009 graduation celebration September 11, 2009. This award is given to the student who has earned the highest overall grade point average in the class.
The White House recently announced that a University of Arizona researcher has won a top national honor for her work on a potentially deadly virus that affects the majority of people on Earth.
