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. Categories: Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Research & Discovery
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.Categories: Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
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. Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
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. Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
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.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
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. Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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. Categories: Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A successful second TEDxWakeForestU turns an experiment into a spring semester tradition. What did attendees think of this year's event? Read their ideas captured through social media.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
What will define our future? Will it be our ability to share through social media, our quest to use Google to escape memorization or the impact our consumer society will have on the environment? The highly successful TEDxWakeForestU returns to Wake Forest on Feb. 23 to tackle these topics.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements