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National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute funds research by Wake Forest professor

June 21, 2010  |   Faculty, Research

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that it will fund nine research grants to improve the safety of red blood cell transfusions.

Linda Nielsen: Finding dad’s softer side

June 18, 2010  |   Research

With Father’s Day approaching, remember that your father cares as much as your mother, but he shows it in different ways, says professor Linda Nielsen, author of “Between Fathers & Daughters,” in The Wall Street Journal.

Emotional rollercoaster

June 9, 2010  |   Research, Scholars and Scientists

Contrary to popular belief, the ups and downs of romantic relationships have a greater effect on the mental health of young men than women, according to a new study by Professor of Sociology Robin Simon.

Research Park plans major expansion

June 8, 2010  |   Research

The Piedmont Triad Research Park has reached an agreement with a Maryland developer for an $87 million project to rehabilitate two downtown buildings into research space for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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Understanding the Middle East

June 7, 2010  |   Humanities, International, Research, Wake Forest College

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.

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The French Wars on Religion

May 25, 2010  |   Humanities, International, Research, Wake Forest College

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.

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Rewarding research: Student’s chemistry work helps advance solar-cell technology

May 24, 2010  |   Graduate School, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College, Working Together

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.

Invention could revolutionize solar cells

May 23, 2010  |   Research

A spinoff company of Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials is trying to commercialize a new optical fiber-based solar cell that could “revolutionize the power grid,” said David Carroll, the director of the nanotech center.

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Teaching middle-schoolers to love cell science

May 11, 2010  |   Graduate School, Humanities, Research, Student

If the nation’s ability to remain an economic power rests in the hands of today’s middle-school students, then the future looks bright.

A new tool developed at Wake Forest — a video game called CellCraft — will be featured May 12 at the White House in the inaugural celebration of National Lab Day.

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A passion for parks: History’s Emily Wakild receives NEH grant to study Mexican national parks

May 4, 2010  |   Humanities, International, Research, Sustainability

History professor Emily Wakild is passionate about Mexican parks.

She has spent more than a decade researching and writing about the legacy of the Mexican Revolution in the early- to late-1900s, a period in which government planners created a system of national parks to achieve both social goals and environmental conservation.