With the debut of its new Nano and Quantum Technologies Laboratory (NanoteQ), Wake Forest University gains a critical edge in quantum computing research. NanoteQ includes the University’s first ISO 5-certified clean room. And that provides the tightly controlled space needed for creating and studying the silicon-based qubits that make quantum computing possible. The facility hosts…
Categories: Research & Discovery
When a multi-million-dollar masterpiece vanishes from a museum, the public calls for tougher criminal penalties and better-funded police task forces. But research from Wake Forest University suggests that some of these intuitive solutions can backfire, resulting in more art crime, not less. In their paper published in the Journal of Cultural Economics, Wake Forest Professor…
Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
When policymakers and city officials plan for climate change, they rely on economic studies showing how extreme heat impacts violent crime, public health, energy grids, and crop yields. However, a new study published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists reveals a hidden problem in that research: the temperature proxies used…
Categories: Research & Discovery
Archaeologist Terry Brock and a team of students are working to salvage artifacts from Historic Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem. Their efforts to conserve and catalog thousands of pieces of pottery and other items from Bethabara (pronounced beth-ab-uh-ruh) will shed light on the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina, which dates to the 1750s. A new…
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, Undergraduate research
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