Graduate students present projects
One hundred participate in annual research day
One hundred graduate students from the Reynolda and Bowman Gray campuses presented their research projects at the eighth annual Graduate Research Day sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on March 5. Fifteen students were recognized for the excellence of their poster presentations. Forty faculty served as judges.
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Photo gallery"It was a remarkable display of the inventiveness, hard work and exciting new frontiers being explored by our graduate programs," said Lorna G. Moore, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
In conjunction with the research presentations, Dr. Anthony Atala, W.H. Boyce Professor and director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and three students — Catherine Ward (biomedical engineering), Dawn Delo (Molecular Medicine) and David Burmeister (Physiology/Pharmacology) — gave a presentation on "Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells: Current Concepts and Future Trends."
"Their presentation showed the exciting synergy and high-level advances in our understanding that are realized when students and faculty work together on pressing health and other important, societal issues," Moore said.
Research Day was also co-sponsored by Targacept and the Office of Technology Asset Management at Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Wake Forest offers 13 PhD degrees, three (biology, chemistry and physics) on the Reynolda Campus and 10 in the biomedical sciences on the Bowman Gray Campus, including one in biomedical engineering with Virginia Tech. The Graduate School also offers a MD/PhD with the School of Medicine and a PhD/MBA with the Babcock Graduate School of Management, and a MA in Counseling/MDiv with the Divinity School.
Wake Forest also offers 18 master's programs, 14 on the Reynolda Campus, including the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, a combined MD/MS in Health Sciences Research and a master's of accountancy program through the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy. Four master's programs in the biomedical sciences are located on the Bowman Gray Campus.
Research Day Poster Presentation Contest
Analytical Category
Winner: Andrew Karode, Computer Science
Runner Up: Graham Lopez, Computer Science
Runner Up: Santiago Saldana, Computer Science
Basic Category
Winner: Poornima Sukumar, Biology
Runner Up: Zhidong Ma, Chemistry
Runner Up: Ashley Weant, Microbiology/Immunology
Integrative Category
Winner: Jennifer Mozolic, Neuroscience
Runner Up: Lindsey Hamilton, Neuroscience
Runner Up: Hetal Pandya, Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Social Category
Winner: Lori Mack, Psychology
Runner Up: Austin James, Education
Runner Up: Shannon Stark, Psychology
Translational
Winner: Darnell Josiah, Molecular Medicine
Runner Up: Amber Bonovitch, Biomedical Engineering
Runner Up: Jill Wykosky, Molecular Medicine
— Kerry M. King ('85)
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