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.

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.

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.

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.

Senior Victoria Osborne writes about Project Nicaragua and her experiences helping local entrepreneurs in and around Managua improve their business skills.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.