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Seven students are spending the 2011 spring semester studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, in the newly established Wake Forest Southern Cone Program. The Wake Forest faculty-led program includes home stays with host families, classes with Chilean students and travel in the region.

Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience by Fadel Zeidan, a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

A team of undergraduate students from the Schools of Business won the world championship title on April 8 at the KPMG International Case Competition in Istanbul, Turkey. Wake Forest, representing the U.S., defeated the Czech Republic, Russia and Sweden in the final round.

What started as an idea for an iPad application by professors A. Daniel Johnson and Jed Macosko evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks called “BioBook.” The project will be funded by a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.

How do you take a small story and make it big? Two documentary film students started with a story about a man breaking the law by handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless people, and created the award-winning film, “Civil Indigent.”