January 2010 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Teaching students biodiesel production
Chemistry professor Abdu Lachgar is conducting research with the help of his undergraduate students to find a new catalyst for biodiesel production.
Categories: University Announcements
Building a class without the SAT
“Wake Forest strives to build a vibrant academic community that combines a broad range of talents, skills and interests. None of those things shows up on the SAT,” writes Provost Jill Tiefenthaler on Wake Forest’s decision to no longer require the SAT.
Categories: University Announcements
A sun-powered gift
Sustainability director Dedee DeLongpré Johnston received a gift for the campus just in time for the holidays: the newest-model solar-electric hybrid shuttle that will begin serving the campus in 2010.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
College students voice their opinions
Rebecca Matteo and students in her first-year seminar tackled a timely subject this fall: health-care reform. Worrell Professor David Coates follows the debate in Washington in a health-care blog.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Tips to get you going
Adding 30 minutes of daily physical activity should top your list of New Year’s resolutions, says professor Peter Brubaker, who offers 10 tips to get you moving toward a healthier lifestyle in 2010.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Still a beacon for hope?
Categories: Research & Discovery
Students to spend winter break volunteering in Brazil and India
Two groups of students are spending their winter break on service trips, one group in Brazil helping build a community center for children, and a second group in Calcutta, India, working with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Building cells in the classroom
A science-education computer game being developed by a Wake Forest physics professor and two alumni to teach children the inner-workings of cells is now being tested by local students.
Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
To Clone or Not to Clone?
Throughout history, major breakthroughs in medicine and science have oftentimes been met with skepticism, blatant criticism and even fear. Take, for example, the advent of the autopsies or, closer to today, artificial insemination, stem cell research, and the right to choose how we die.
Categories: University Announcements