Improving banked blood
Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.Categories: Research & Discovery
Senior Jennifer Malarkey, one of the actors in the Wake Forest Theatre production of “Sonnets for an Old Century,” talks about her role and her mentors in the theatre department.
Assistant Professor of English Melissa Jenkins (’01) is studying classic works of literature with her writing seminar students this fall to determine why we enjoy being scared.
The ghosts in Associate Professor of English John McNally’s book, “Ghosts of Chicago,” aren’t haunted by spirits, but instead “by deaths, by failed marriages, by lies they’ve told, by crimes committed.”
Like those creatures in horror films that rise from the dead, zombie stocks — shares of bankrupt companies that failed during the financial crisis — are still on the march.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and sociology’s Angela Hattery explains why the recession and rising unemployment are leading to an increase in “intimate partner violence.”