Research Archive

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Building cells in the classroom

December 21, 2009  |   Research, Teacher-Scholar

A science-education computer game being developed by a Wake Forest physics professor and two alumni to teach children the inner-workings of cells is now being tested by local students.

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Researching video games

December 9, 2009  |   Research, Teacher-Scholar

Several students taking a first-year seminar have created a blog that includes reviews of video games and tips for parents, and insights into video-game play that they learned from their class research.

Researchers study the shelf life of blood

December 1, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Addressing mental-health issues around the world

November 30, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Medical researchers make breakthrough

November 24, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’

November 23, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Researching the iconic images of war

November 10, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan

November 1, 2009  |   Research

Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer.

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Improving banked blood

November 1, 2009  |   Research

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.

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Nature’s ‘trick or treat’

October 23, 2009  |   Research, Teacher-Scholar

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.