Numerous studies reveal that communities with people of color have borne greater health and environmental risk burdens than society at large. The University will host a discussion on the issues surrounding environmental injustice.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Research & Discovery
Education professor Kristin Redington Bennett knows iPads can revolutionize the K-12 classroom – bringing Internet connectivity to every student and ridding desks and worktables of textbooks, notebooks and binders.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
With help from the Richter Scholarship program this summer, anthropology major Hope Scofield joined a field school program sponsored by the Balkan Heritage Foundation. In Bulgaria, she uncovered ceramic storage containers, coins and marble decorative pieces.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest researchers have shown for the first time that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults – a finding that could hold great potential for combating the progression of dementia.Categories: Research & Discovery
Researchers at Wake Forest's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have grown a miniature liver using human cells. Although it is too small to work for a human, the hope is to grow larger livers or to use them for testing.Categories: Research & Discovery
A new book by Assistant Professor of History Charles L. Wilkins offers a historical perspective that shows Muslim societies as complex and not solely focused on warmaking.Categories: Research & Discovery
Junior Brandon Turner's research integrates multiple fields and comes under the mentoring eye of Jacque Fetrow, dean of the college. He received the 2010-2011 American Physical Society Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors. 
Legal scholar Tanya Marsh examines 60 years of cemetery law and finds commercialization has replaced individual choice, family custom and religious belief in burial decisions.Categories: Research & Discovery
Researchers at Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have developed an inexpensive new light source that’s cool to the touch, won’t break if dropped, and can be molded into any shape.Categories: Research & Discovery
"Single Threads Unbraided,” a celebration of the poetry, art and letters of A.R. Ammons will be held Nov. 15–16 at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements