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Twins Combine Interests in Science, Art

by April 29, 2013

Twins combine interest in science, art
By KASHA PATEL (’12), INTERN Office of Communications and External Relations
The Blackburn twins are playing an integral role in the ongoing development of BioBook, an interactive biology e-textbook designed to improve persistence and success in college-level science courses created by an interdisciplinary research team at Read more »

Update: Grimberg 2012 TEDx Lecture

by January 28, 2013

From TED “Ideas Worth Spreading – riveting talks by remarkable people” [link]
Our own PhD. Biology graduate Brian Grimberg, now Assistant Professor of International Health at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, gave one of the 2012 TEDxCLE talks entitled “Buzzkill: How Malaria Has, and Is, Changing The World We Live Read more »

Honey Bee See . . . Honey Bee Do?

by September 12, 2012

PLOS (The Public Library of Science) is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization recently published an article focusing on the work of Reynolds Professor of Developmental Neuroscience Susan Fahrbach and graduate student researcher Scott Dobrin (PhD. 2011).  Fahrbach and her lab group have discovered that it is possible to train Read more »

Wake Forest PhD Nick Hristov Featured by NPR

by September 10, 2012

Nickolay Hristov, Professor with the UNC Center for Design Innovation and Wake Forest Biology Research Professor, does amazing research on bats. His work was featured on National Public Radio (NPR) weekly program Science Friday.  Nick received his PhD. from Wake Forest in 2008 and works closely with Professor William Conner’s Read more »

Wake Forest PhD Aaron Corcoran Featured by National Geographic

by June 15, 2012
Aaron Corcoran

Aaron Corcoran’s research on sonar jamming moths is featured in the new National Geographic Special “Untamed Americas”. The footage is featured in the episode on Deserts. It is airing Saturday, June 16, 9pm EST.
Link to the show page: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/untamed-americas/
Mexican Free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) migrate up to 1,000 miles (1609 kilometers) from Read more »

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