Categories: Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
Professor Peter Brunette, a well-known film historian, author and critic, died unexpectedly June 16 while attending the Taormina Film Festival in Italy.
Brunette, who was 66, died of an apparent heart attack. He is survived by a sister, Rose Dean.Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
Michaelle Browers has spent half her academic career in the Middle East.
An associate professor in the political science department, she’s conducted research in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Morocco. She's fluent in Arabic, yet one of the first things she does when she prepares for a trip is to hire a language tutor. The language is complex, but so is her area of expertise. And language is the vehicle that led to two decades of study in the politics and culture of the Middle East.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Research & Discovery
Romance languages professor Kendall Tarte has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore how the 16th-century French Wars of Religion affected the writers and literary and visual styles of the time. Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.Categories: Research & Discovery