Dan Johnson, a biology professor at Wake Forest University, will unveil his automated tool for improving undergraduate science writing May 13-20 during the National Science Foundation’s 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase.Categories: Research & Discovery
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
In people with chronic malaria, certain metabolic systems in the blood change to support a long-term host-parasite relationship, a finding that is key to eventually developing better detection, treatment and eradication of the disease, according to research published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight.Categories: Research & Discovery
Wake Forest University has appointed Jonathan L. Walton as Dean of the School of Divinity. Walton is currently at Harvard, where he serves as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the University’s Memorial Church. He is also Professor of Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest University has chosen Jane Aiken to become the next Dean of the School of Law. Aiken comes to Wake Forest from Georgetown Law, where she has been a professor and administrator since 2007 and currently serves as the Blume Professor of Law.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest Associate Provost for the Arts Christina Soriano has been named a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. Soriano is one of eight change-makers from across the nation who will begin a year-long fellowship at the Kennedy Center Arts Summit on Monday, April 29.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) has received $2.14 million in additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), supporting the expansion of the research center’s study of mercury pollution and reforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
It might be one of nature’s most agile and calculating hunters, but the wolf spider won’t harm an insect that literally leaves a bad taste in its mouth, according to new research by a team of Wake Forest University sensory neuroscientists, including C.J. "Jake" Saunders.
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.
From “Captain Marvel” to “Shazam” to “Avengers: Endgame,” what is it about these stories that keep audiences coming back? Spoiler alert: It’s not just the special effects.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery