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
Researching the iconic images of war
Images of the American soldier — captured by photographers on battlefields from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan — have changed over time, according to professor David Lubin, who is writing a book on the imagery of World War I.Categories: Research & Discovery
November 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan
Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer. Categories: Research & Discovery
Improving banked blood
Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.Categories: Research & Discovery
Nature’s ‘trick or treat’
In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery