Taking the classroom outside
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship
Senior joins professor to study microfinance projects
Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.Rewarding research: Student’s chemistry work helps advance solar-cell technology
The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.
Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.Fellowship and scholarship: Program supports top students through mentoring and guidance
The Wake Forest Scholars program, launched in 2003, coordinates efforts to encourage and assist students in post-graduate scholarship and fellowship competitions. As its director, Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78) guides students through the painstaking process of completing applications, writing essays and securing references. He’s also there to offer alternatives and ease anxieties—knowing that post-graduation awards are just one path to success.Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
Johnson enjoys the teacher-scholar role
Biology professor Erik Johnson, who received the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching earlier this semester, works to inspire a love of learning in his students. “The students here are truly exceptional, which makes the role of a teacher-scholar rewarding.”
Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
First-hand experience
Born in the midst of a civil war in Sudan, senior Leek Deng spent his early years living in a refugee camp in Kenya. Last summer, nine years after leaving Sudan for the United States, he returned to Africa to volunteer at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
Building cells in the classroom
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.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Researching video games
Several students taking a first-year seminar have created a blog that includes reviews of video games and tips for parents, and insights into video-game play that they learned from their class research.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Nature’s ‘trick or treat’
In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
‘The epitome of a teacher-scholar’
Categories: Mentorship, University Announcements