Silicon built an industry and named a valley. But like athletes who have reached their performance thresholds, silicon and other semiconductors are nearing their limits. Enter "insulators," a different class of materials like diamonds that, with the addition of the right mineral impurities or "defects," will be far more adept at handling the data- and image-processing demands of the Information Age. How to better harness the power of insulators for tomorrow's technology is the focus of the 13th International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials (ICDIM96) July 15- 19 at Wake Forest University.
P.C. Barwick Jr., an attorney with Wallace Morris Barwick & Rochelle in Kinston, was among 13 Wake Forest University law alumni admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Durham resident Roy O. Rodwell Jr. and his daughters, Nancy and Rebecca Rodwell, have pledged $250,000 to endow the Roy O. Rodwell Sr. Scholarship Fund at Wake Forest University.
The nation's economy had a good first quarter, said Gary L. Shoesmith, director of the Center for Economic Studies at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management, but the good times may be borrowed from the future.
Renovation and construction projects are underway at Wake Forest University this summer that will update classroom and residence buildings and create new athletic facilities.