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Microbiology Search 2017

by August 4, 2017

Microbiology Search 2017

The Biology Department located in Winston Hall and Building 60 at Wake Downtown provides excellent teaching and research space.

The Department of Biology at Wake Forest University invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level who are broadly trained in microbiology and who will complement Read more »

BBC features Nick Dowdy’s work

by April 21, 2016

The BBC recently featured Ph.D. candidate Nick Dowdy‘s work on moths in Central America.  He has some very interesting scientific findings on the unique defensive behavior of a particular Ecuadorian moth.  When threatened, it “uses an explosion of a sticky, wool-like material to defend itself.”  This has never been seen before in Read more »

Woodpecker Drumming Signals: Wimp or Warrior

by March 8, 2016
Fuxjager, Schuppe, Petersen in field study

The Wake Forest University News Service recently published this news story written by Bonnie Davis on the research work of Dr. Matt Fuxjager.
“Partners will actually coordinate or cooperate with how they fight depending on who they are fighting. They size up their opponent and decide whether they need to work Read more »

Muday, Pan, Ranjbar Win National Teaching Tools Competition

by February 24, 2016

Professor Gloria Muday, and students Bethany Pan, and Par Ranjbar recently won a national contest sponsored by the American Society of Plant Biologists to develop teaching tools that can be used in K-12 and college level biology which teaches about the effects of climate change, drought, and water deficit on Read more »

Silman and Messinger featured on series “Now What”

by December 10, 2015

The documentary series “Now What” with Ryan Duffy, features the work of Max Messinger (BS 2013, MS 2015) and Professor Miles Silman in the Amazon.  The piece follows Messinger’s work with drones in monitoring illicit gold mining in the Amazon and the scale of negative environmental impact these illegal activities have had. Read more »

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