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Beating bad bacteria
July 31, 2014 | Faculty, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
Sophomore Hannah Martin and Patricia Dos Santos, an associate professor of chemistry, are tackling the problem of how to target harmful bacteria while sparing beneficial bacteria that make it possible for humans to live healthy lives.
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Tomorrow’s tomatoes look to the past
June 18, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Top Stories
The key to developing drought-resistant tomatoes may be hidden in the genes of their ancestors. Rising junior Kathleen DiNapoli is on a hunt to find it.
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Disease-seeking molecules
April 29, 2014 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
A new compound created by Wake Forest chemists could help scientists probe the secrets behind deadly forms of cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. The research is featured in the current edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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A programmer’s approach to problem solving
April 9, 2014 | Faculty, Mentoring, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
An iPhone app developed by a team of Wake Forest freshmen could one day enable patrons at campus restaurants to vote for what songs play over the speakers.
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Diving into biodiversity
March 26, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Faculty, International, Mentoring, National, Online, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
Lighthouse Reef Atoll is one of the most pristine marine environments in the Caribbean Sea due to its remote location. Students taking an Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reefs class spent their spring break exploring the Atoll’s startling array of biodiversity.
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From bench to bedside
March 24, 2014 | Campus Life, Life on Campus, National, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, School of Business, Schools, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Working Together
Move over, pink. The fight against breast cancer now wears Old Gold and Black as a team of graduate students from Wake Forest Schools of Business, Law and Medicine work together to take a promising, but underfunded, cancer therapy to market.
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Painting robot lends surgeons a hand
February 3, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Arts & Culture, Humanities, Mentoring, National, Online, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
Would you let an artist perform life-saving surgery on you? You might someday, if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee (’16) built a robotic painting arm that could one day lend doctors a hand in practicing complex, robot-assisted surgeries without having to step foot in an operating room.
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Plotting a green career path
January 10, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: OPCD, 2014 Highlights: Research, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014
A new masters program created by Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, the Environment & Sustainability (CEES) will give students and early career professionals the diverse skillset they need to carve out a place in the burgeoning global sustainable business market.
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Student Storytellers: Saturdays with math and jicama
December 19, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, Community, Humanities, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Research, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Uncategorized
Erin Hellmann (’14) and Logan Healy-Tuke (’14) founded The Ashley Explorers Saturday Academy to strengthen the reading and math skills of elementary students in Winston-Salem.
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Empowering the voiceless
October 17, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A new kind of hands-free communication device developed by Wake Forest could help people with speech impediments and poor motor control interact with the world around them.
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