The No Fear Battalion, an Army ROTC unit consisting of 70 cadets from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University and Salem College, led a somber yet uplifting tribute on Friday morning. In memory of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy, cadets and members of the Winston-Salem community ran the steps of Allegacy Stadium…
Categories: University Happenings
Join the No Fear Army ROTC Battalion, based at Wake Forest University, for the annual Climb to Remember, which honors the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Friday, Sept. 11, participants aim to climb one stair at Allegacy Stadium for each of the victims. Students from Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State University and…
Categories: Happening at Wake
Research underway in the lab of Rebecca Alexander, professor in Wake Forest University’s Department of Chemistry, is shedding light on a peculiar human bacteria, Mycoplasma penetrans. Alexander’s work to understand how and why this unique pathogen acts as it does could one day lead to new classes of drugs that better target illnesses associated with…
Categories: Research & Discovery
While rising sea levels, fierce storms and shoreline development eat away at wetlands along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the eroding soils dump 660,000 metric tons of carbon pollution into the ocean every year, according to new Wake Forest University research. That carbon can create a more acidic ocean, endangering oyster and clam growth…
Categories: Research & Discovery
Scholars spend decades mastering the art of discovery, but few receive guidance on how to explain their findings to the general public. To close this gap, Wake Forest University has been selected as home for Scholars and Ideas in the Public Sphere, a premier program designed to help academic researchers learn to share their work…
Categories: Happening at Wake
It took one drone, 300 million laser data points and seven teams of students on foot to map Wake Forest University’s trees. Led by Ovidiu Csillik, an assistant professor of remote sensing in the environment and sustainability studies program, the project produced a publicly accessible, interactive 3D digital map of more than 1,000 trees and…
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
For breast cancer survivors, new research shows that feelings of depression and perceptions of psychological stress make the biggest difference in whether they experience fatigue up to two years after chemotherapy started. Researchers had thought that damage to the heart caused by chemotherapy would be the main contributor to survivor fatigue. But that turned out…
Categories: Research & Discovery
Making the new Wake Forest University 30-second TV commercial started with cutting nearly 3,000 pieces of paper into campus landmarks, trees and people. Every element was designed, engineered and assembled by hand. The commercial is scheduled to air for the first time during the Sept. 3 football game and will continue to air throughout the…
Categories: Leadership & Character, University Announcements
Before you prompt AI to answer another question or perform another task, a Wake Forest computer scientist wants you to know it could expose your sensitive data. Ying Zhang, an assistant professor in Wake Forest University’s Department of Computer Science, studies security in software engineering. Her latest research, “How Your Credentials Are Leaked by LLM…
Categories: Research & Discovery
In the race to add AI capabilities to their mobile apps, developers have opened up a new security weakness that puts their own wallets at risk. A new study led by Wake Forest undergraduate student Eric Gao analyzed 444 iOS applications. It found that 282 exposed credentials needed to access the developers’ large language model…
Categories: Undergraduate research