June 2010 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Embodying Pro Humanitate
Wake Forest students have long been known for their commitment to the University’s motto, Pro Humanitate, and now an awards program has been established to formally recognize exemplary community service, whether it’s close to home or around the world.Categories: Community Impact, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Taking the classroom outside
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship
Gielow receives national golf award
Brendan Gielow, who graduated in May, has received the Byron Nelson Award from the Golf Coaches Association of America, recognizing his academic record, character and integrity.
Categories: Athletics
Congress fails to grasp financial issues
Congress has largely ignored the underlying reasons for the financial crisis, writes professor Rob Bliss in US Banker. “The unwillingness to examine these broader causes means that lessons will be unlearned and another crisis more likely.”
Categories: University Announcements
Senior joins professor to study microfinance projects
Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.The French Wars on Religion
Romance languages professor Kendall Tarte has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore how the 16th-century French Wars of Religion affected the writers and literary and visual styles of the time. Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Rewarding research: Student’s chemistry work helps advance solar-cell technology
The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.
Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.New program fits University’s mission
The new Documentary Film Program, which will enroll its first graduate students this fall, is a perfect fit for Wake Forest’s commitment to interdisciplinary studies, mentoring and public engagement, say the program’s directors.
Categories: Arts & Culture
Invention could revolutionize solar cells
A spinoff company of Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials is trying to commercialize a new optical fiber-based solar cell that could “revolutionize the power grid,” said David Carroll, the director of the nanotech center.
Categories: Research & Discovery