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Physics student gets NSF fellowship
April 24, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.
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‘Children of Kabul’
April 13, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.
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Power Felt gives a charge
February 22, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Research, Student, Top Stories
When graduate student Corey Hewitt (Ph.D. ’13) simply touches a small piece of Power Felt – a promising new thermoelectric device developed by a team of researchers in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials – he has converted his body heat into an electrical current.
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Genetics inspire cyber-security research
February 14, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Research, Student, Top Stories
Computer science graduate student Michael Crouse (BS ’10, MS ’12) and his faculty mentor, Associate Professor Errin Fulp, apply biological design principles to address the ever-changing and growing concern of cyber security.
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Student Storyteller: Project Nicaragua
February 7, 2012 | Graduate School, International, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
Senior Victoria Osborne writes about Project Nicaragua and her experiences helping local entrepreneurs in and around Managua improve their business skills.
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WFU documentary goes global
January 24, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Humanities, International, Top Stories
A new Documentary Film Program movie, “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz,” has caught the attention of the United Nations, which will produce a study guide and send copies of the film to its information centers in 63 countries for special screenings and educational programs.
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History and health care
November 2, 2011 | Events, Graduate School, Research, Top Stories
As part of an innovative bioethics seminar, nine Wake Forest graduate students in the Master of Arts in Bioethics Program recently performed “The Burial Society” — a case study representing the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis.
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Student named top new inventor
October 24, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
Inventors Digest magazine has named computer science graduate student Michael Crouse (BS ’10, MS ’12) one of the “Nation’s Top New Inventors.” Crouse is featured on the cover of the October issue. Also see a video feature on Crouse from WFMY.
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Peter Gilbert joins Wake Forest
September 30, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The producer and director of photography on the Oscar-nominated documentary “Hoop Dreams” adds his expertise to the Documentary Film Program — teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses.
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Guiding young filmmakers
August 1, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Student, Top Stories
Last week, a group of local middle- and high-school students got the chance to learn how to be filmmakers, thanks to a documentary short “boot camp” run by seven graduate students from Wake Forest’s Documentary Film Program.
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