Keri Brown

Wake Forest University’s URECA student research day is held in the fall each year during Family Weekend. It began nearly 20 years ago and has grown. This year, 140 undergraduate students and more than 120 faculty mentors participated in the event. It provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to present their recently completed and ongoing research projects in both poster format and in oral presentations.

NASA recently awarded graduate student David Carchipulla-Morales the prestigious "Future Investigators NASA Earth and Space Science Technology" grant. Only about 100 proposals were selected for the grant out of nearly a thousand applications.

Nineteen high school students shared research project results during the final LEAP symposium held at the University’s Wake Downtown. LEAP is a summer, paid, lab-based internship program for rising high school juniors and seniors.

A new psychology study shows the well-being benefits for older adults who approach challenging experiences positively.