Five tips for navigating the Forest
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Gilbert gets the flu
“It was a dark and stormy night.” This is how Janna Raley started her mathematical economics paper. Surprised? So was her professor. But, writing the assignment in the form of a children’s book led to an article published in an academic journal.Categories: Alumni, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
Engineering at the atomic scale
Senior Brian Shoemaker is helping a national team of scientists answer a million-dollar question: Could a substance that resembles baby powder curb global carbon emissions?Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Malama i ka ‘Aina: take care of the land
In June, sophomore Jamal Garcia participated in a weeklong service project to help clean up the Gateway National Recreation Area, which was severely damaged by superstorm Sandy. Although 5,000 miles from home, Garcia has brought his love for the land to the East Coast and Wake Forest.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Spouse’s attitude affecting your job?
A School of Business professor studies how organizations that don't support family life may end up causing more turnover among employees. The secret might just be to gaining the spouse's support. Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Teaching and mentoring moments
U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching. But, the nearly magical interaction between professors and bright students is not limited to classroom, studio, stage or laboratory. Many faculty become mentors for students as they explore academic and extracurricular interests.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Options in the world of work
When Rahel Tafese spent a day job shadowing a sales representative for BioRx, she learned about treatments for immune deficiency, but more important, she made connections that will help her as she figures out her career path. Forty alumni offered an insider’s view of their work to current students as part of the new program. Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
Landscape of a leader’s brain
Wake Forest's Sean Hannah and a team of researchers have found measuring activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain can help assess that person’s potential for leadership -- which could have a big impact on how future leaders are tested and trained.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
After the Genome: Medicine, miracles, morality
Medical advances in biotechnology seem to be coming faster than the public can understand them or even discuss how society should handle ethical, legal and moral considerations. To spark the national conversation, Wake Forest has partnered with Baylor to host “After the Genome: The Language of our Biotechnological Future” April 12-13. Categories: Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Bee impressed at ACC Meeting of the Minds
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but this might not be the case for a honeybee. Just ask David Hale (’15), a sophomore biology major. Hale has been studying the relationship between brain structure and cognitive function in honeybees since his freshman year.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements