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Aquatic Hunger Games

by August 31, 2015
burnette studies archerfish

The work of Ph.D. candidate Morgan Burnette and Professor Miriam Ashley-Ross was recently cited by the Wake Forest News Service in an article entitled “Aquatic Hunger Games” by Bonnie Davis.
“The sharp-shooting fish’s ability to spit water to hit food targets has been well documented, but a new study published online Read more »

David J. Anderson featured on BBC

by March 4, 2015

Professor of Biology David J. Anderson’s research into very unique questions about behavior and ecology have often been the focus of national media attention. Recently, Dr. Anderson was featured by the BBC in the series “The Natural World”. Dr. Anderson is featured in the episode entitled Galapagos: Islands of Change [web link].
Dr. Anderson’s work is Read more »

GMO: Fear, Facts, Farms and Food

by December 4, 2014

GMOS: Fear, Facts, Farms, and Food

This forum was held Wednesday November 19 at 7 PM in the Byrum Welcome
Center of Wake Forest University.
This forum provided information on GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) crops, including how, when, and why they are used.
Questions including the following were answered by a panel of experts:

 What Read more »

Science: Holy Blocked Bat Signal!

by November 6, 2014

Science magazine and the BBC independently featured the work of Aaron Corcoran and Bill Conner.  The Science article is titled: “Holy blocked bat signal! Bats jam each other’s calls”.  This article focuses on the research of Corcoran and Conner done in the southwestern United States on bat colonies and studies of bat calls. Read more »

Tomorrow’s Tomatoes Look to the Past

by October 15, 2014

The WFU News Service recently published an article featuring the work of Dr. Gloria Muday and Beckman Award winner Kathleen DiNapoli.  This article sheds light on their research into the genetics and physiology of heirloom tomatoes to locate ancestral genes that offer growth advantages.
Pull quote:
“The world population continues to grow despite our finite Read more »