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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.

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.

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.

Ish Smith and Al-Farouq Aminu led Wake Forest to a 67-59 win over N.C. State in the Deacons’ ACC opener at Joel Coliseum Sunday night.