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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’s Department of Physics is seeking applications for one to two Visiting Assistant Professors beginning July 2022. We seek highly qualified candidates who have a commitment to excellence in teaching. A Ph.D. in Physics or a related area is required. Standard teaching load for a Visiting Assistant Professor is three courses per semester made up of a mixture of lecture and laboratory classes. Usually these are at the introductory level, but teaching upper level courses is also possible.

Founded in 1834, the University is ranked among the top 30 national universities. The Physics Department is a Ph.D.-granting department whose mission is to perform internationally recognized research and to excel in undergraduate and graduate education.

The application package should be submitted in a single PDF that contains in the following order: 1) a letter of application, including the names and contact information of at least three references, 2) a current curriculum vitae, 3) a statement of teaching philosophy (maximum of 3 pages). Applications are accepted online at http://www.wfu.careers/. Review of applications will begin on February 28th and continue until the position is filled.

Inquiries about the application process and document submission may be addressed to wakejobs@wfu.edu. Inquiries about the faculty position or department should be directed to Daniel Kim-Shapiro, shapiro@wfu.edu.


Wake Forest University welcomes and encourages diversity and inclusivity, and seeks applicants with demonstrated success in working with diverse populations. Wake Forest University is an AA/EO employer and values an inclusive and diverse learning community and campus climate.

In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations for final candidates upon their acceptance of an offer of employment.

 

 

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The Physics Department and Wake Forest University are saddened by the recent loss of retired physics professor Richard T. Williams who passed away July 5, 2021, after a brief struggle with AML leukemia. He was 75.

Professor Williams earned a BS in physics at Wake Forest in 1968 and was the first Speas Award recipient for distinguished work in physics (the highest undergraduate award). He then earned an MA in 1971 and a PhD in physics in 1974 at Princeton.

After a successful early career at the Naval Research Laboratory, he was recruited back to Wake Forest as the Reynolds Professor of Physics. Professor Williams increased the reputation and visibility of the Wake Forest physics department by helping to establish its PhD program in the 1980s. He mentored the first physics PhD graduate and was the first endowed professor within the department.

After formally retiring from the University in 2017, Professor Williams remained active in research at the Wake Forest Nanotech Center.

A complete memorial and obituary can be found at https://www.salemfh.com/obituaries/Dr-Richard-T-Williams?obId=21659950#/obituaryInfo.

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Hamna Iqbal

Ph.D. graduate, Hamna Iqbal, wins the 2021 Gordon A. Melson Outstanding PhD Student Award.  This is a university award that recognizes performance in research productivity, quality, originality, importance, and impact in the field, along with outstanding academic record, activity in the discipline and university, and departmental citizenship.

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Professor Oana Jurchescu was awarded the 2019-20 Graduate School Student Association Faculty Excellence Award.  This award is to recognize a graduate school faculty member for his/her service to advance the graduate school program.  The recommendation letters for the award were provided by graduate students and focus on the time devoted to interaction with the students, the commitment to the educational process, and excellence in teaching/mentoring.

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Dr. Oana Jurchescu has been named the Baker Family Professor of Physics.  This Professorship begins July 1, 2021 whereupon Dr. Jurchescu will step down as the Denton Family Fellow.   Dr. Jurchescu has been a model teacher scholar since she arrived at Wake Forest in 2009.  She has won the Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, WFU Award for Excellence in Research,  Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award, and URECA Award for Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work.  She has brought in almost 10 million dollars in external grant funding to run her world-class research program in organic electronics.  The Physics department is proud of her and winning this professorship.

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Noah Meyer, a Physics Major and senior has been selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).  The NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports individuals early in their graduate training in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.  This highly significant national accomplishment places Noah amongst an elite group of fellows who have gone on to distinguished careers in STEM or STEM education.  The Physics Department proudly congratulates Noah on this wonderful accomplishment!

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Dr. Stephen R. Baker
We are excited to congratulate Dr. Stephen Baker for his recently published work!
 
Dr. Baker, Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow, recently co-authored two publications featured in the following journals:
 

Scientific Reports – In this article, Dr. Baker and his colleagues discuss the role neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have on clot structure, formation, and dissolution.

AHA Journal (Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology) – The ATVB article brings to light further understanding of how Glycoprotein VI (GPVI) interacts with fibrinogen, specifically showing the importance fibrinogen’s αC-region has in mediating this interaction.