The WFU Reynolda Campus:  Exciting Times!:

Major recent developments in both physical infrastructure and faculty recruitment on the WFU Reynolda Campus have contributed heavily to a foundational strength for both CSBWFU and the new Interdisciplinary Graduate Track in Structural and Computational Biophysics (SCB-Track). Of the 15 CSB faculty, 9 have been recruited since 2001 by the Departments of Physics, Computer Science, and Chemistry at WFU and the WFUSM Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Jed Macosko joined the Biophysics group (Department of Physics) as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and Dr. Karen Buchmueller joined the Biological Chemistry group (Department of Chemistry) in 2005.

In August, 2003, WFU recruited a 15-member nanotechnology research team and established the new Center for Nanotechnology at Wake Forest University. The NANOTECH Center is being housed in over 6,000 ft² of newly renovated laboratory and office space at a new site adjacent to both the CSBWFU-BGTC anchor site and the WFU Reynolda Campus; NANOTECH's academic mission will be carried out in concert with the Department of Physics.

In addition to these recent developments, the Departments of Physics and Chemistry were awarded Institutional Development Grants in 2003 by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for new Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Biomolecular Imaging Facilities.

Special mention should be made of the WFU Distributed Environment for Academic Computing (DEAC) Cluster, which provides a distributed computing environment for parallel computation to all WFU (and CSBWFU) faculty, for research and teaching missions. WFU, which provides laptop computers for all graduate and undergraduate students, ranked second in The Princeton Review's list of the Top 25 Most Connected Campuses announced in October, 2003, and was the only North Carolina school ranked in the top 15. The breadth of the Computer Science curriculum was one major factor in this recognition. The WFU core network router provides access to WinstonNet and to all local universities and public school systems and to the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NC-REN). Add to these infrastructure elements the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference football championship, the 2003 Atlantic Coast Conference mens' basketball regular season championship and the 2002-2004 NCAA Division 1 field hockey championships, and the environment for research and education is truly exciting indeed!