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Chemistry major earns Beckman Scholar award

June 14, 2016  |   Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Staff, Student

KyungMin Yoo, a rising junior who is majoring in chemistry, has been selected as Wake Forest’s fifth Beckman Scholar. As part of the Beckman Scholars Program, Yoo will spend two summers working on research related to wound-healing with chemistry professor Mark Welker. She has been working in Welker’s lab for a year.

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On Father’s Day, Strong Daughters Can Thank Dad

June 3, 2016  |   Faculty, Research

Research shows the quality of the father-daughter relationship often has a greater impact than a mother-daughter relationship, says Linda Nielsen, Wake Forest University professor and author of “Between Fathers & Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship.”

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Serengeti selfies highlight research to local classroom

May 12, 2016  |   Faculty, Pro Humanitate, Research, Sustainability

Wake Forest University biologist Michael Anderson, who studies the ecology and conservation of African grassland and savannas ecosystems, will be bringing his work to life via Skype for fifth graders at Meadowlark Elementary School on May 12 and 13.

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Mighty Mealworms: Solution for food insecurity and pollution

May 11, 2016  |   Faculty, Research, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories

Biology students at Wake Forest University are using mealworms to solve two global problems – food sustainability and plastic pollution.

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Tiger moths use signals to warn bats: toxic not tasty

May 10, 2016  |   Faculty, Research, Student

Field research of free-flying bats conducted in their natural habitats by a WFU biology graduate student shows tiger moths produce ultrasonic signals to warn bats that they don’t taste good. This behavior – called acoustic aposematism – was previously proven in biology professor Bill Conner’s lab.

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Froggie went a courtin’ and waved goodbye to rival wooers

May 3, 2016  |   Faculty, Research, Top Stories

Most frogs use acoustic signals – or croaks – to communicate during mating season, but some species have also developed a wave, called a foot flag, as a signal to deter the competition. New Wake Forest research looks at the role testosterone plays in the evolutionary process of these signals.

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Conservation alliance to focus on Peruvian Amazon deforestation

April 25, 2016  |   Faculty, International, Pro Humanitate, Research, Sustainability, Top Stories, Uncategorized

CINCIA came to fruition through Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), which embodies a multitude of disciplines working together to effect positive change and sustainability.

WFU students receive Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellowships

April 18, 2016  |   Faculty, International, Media Advisory, Recognition, Research, Student

The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting has selected Sarah Fahmy and Amanda Ulrich as Wake Forest’s 2016 Pulitzer Fellows. They are the University’s fifth and sixth fellowship recipients. Fahmy, a rising senior majoring in politics and international affairs with minors in film studies and anthropology, will […]

Media Advisory: Tropical birds develop ‘superfast’ wing muscles for mating, not flying

April 12, 2016  |   Faculty, Media Advisory, Research

Release courtesy of the journal eLife. (Cambridge, UK – Tuesday, April 12, 2016) – Studies in a group of tropical birds have revealed one of the fastest limb muscles on record for any animal with a backbone. The muscle, which can move the wing at more […]

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Physics students win prestigious awards

April 7, 2016  |   Mentoring, Recognition, Research, Staff, Student, Top Stories

Undergraduate and graduate students working in Oana Jurchescu’s physics research lab earn a Goldwater Scholarship and the Materials Research Society’s Gold award.