January 2010 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Tips to get you going
Adding 30 minutes of daily physical activity should top your list of New Year’s resolutions, says professor Peter Brubaker, who offers 10 tips to get you moving toward a healthier lifestyle in 2010.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Still a beacon for hope?
Categories: Research & Discovery
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
December 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Researchers study the shelf life of blood
The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers across the country, including Wake Forest’s Daniel Kim-Shapiro, are studying whether old, donated blood heightens the risk of serious complications in some patients receiving blood transfusions.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Addressing mental-health issues around the world
Professor of Counseling Donna Henderson has developed a counseling program to help some of the millions of people in developing countries who are suffering from mental-health problems.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Medical researchers make breakthrough
A research team co-led by the medical school’s Dr. Anthony Atala has demonstrated for the first time that stem cells found in amniotic fluid may be more useful than scientists originally thought.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’
The Facebook term “unfriend” is the 2009 Word of the Year. Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, discusses how technology influences language and social interaction.
Categories: Research & Discovery