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Tomorrow’s tomatoes look to the past

June 18, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: Research, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Top Stories

The key to developing drought-resistant tomatoes may be hidden in the genes of their ancestors. Rising junior Kathleen DiNapoli is on a hunt to find it.

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Meet the Class of 2014

May 14, 2014  |   Admissions, Alumni, Campus Life, Commencement, Community, Faculty, Student, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Thrive / Wellbeing, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Meet 14 graduates inspired by their experiences at Wake Forest to lead lives that matter.

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Taking a break to build communities

March 19, 2014  |   Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Uncategorized

This past week, more than 100 Wake Forest students spent their spring break hard at work in the spirit of Pro Humanitate in cities across the country. In the past five years, Wake Alternative Break (WAB) has doubled the number of service trips it offers.

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3D model measures coal ash spill

February 26, 2014  |   Community, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories, Uncategorized

With a 3D model created using aerial images from an unmanned aircraft, Wake Forest researchers have received widespread national media attention by providing a new look at the extent of coal ash contaminants recently leaked into a North Carolina river.

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Dining by design

January 15, 2014  |   2014 Highlights, Community, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014

For coffee, lunch, dinner or a late-night study session, North Dining Hall is the newest gathering place on campus. The two-story, 21,000 square-foot dining facility opened this week.

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Plotting a green career path

January 10, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, 2014 Highlights: Research, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014

A new masters program created by Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, the Environment & Sustainability (CEES) will give students and early career professionals the diverse skillset they need to carve out a place in the burgeoning global sustainable business market.

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Pool Power

December 13, 2013  |   Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Sophomore Yinger ‘Eagle’ Jin has come up with a way to turn waves in the Reynolds gym pool into electricity. The mathematical formulas he developed could one day be used to help calculate the amount of electricity that could be produced through wave energy off the North Carolina coast.

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From waste to energy

October 16, 2013  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Wake Forest researchers recently developed a sugar-based compound that makes it cheaper and easier to turn low-quality fats and oils into affordable biodiesel.

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Hunger, not a game

September 6, 2013  |   Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories

Rather than putting a Band-Aid on a wound, Wake Forest students, faculty and staff continue to take a proactive approach in preventing and eradicating hunger and bringing about systemic change.

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The changing shape of solar

August 9, 2013  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories

The Hybrid Sterling Energy Generator (HySterE) panel is one of the world’s first combined photovoltaic and thermal collection generators. Developed by researchers at Wake Forest, it could transform how we use the sun’s energy.

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