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 »
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Aquatic Hunger Games
Science: Holy Blocked Bat Signal!
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
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.
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“The world population continues to grow despite our finite Read more »
Saving the Orangutans
Author Kerry King recently published an article on recent grad Cassie Freund. Cassie has recently become program director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program. Cassie cites Dr. Miles Silman and Dr. Ron Dimock as her most influential mentors at Wake. Cassie talks about what it is like working in the Read more »
Diving into Biodiversity
By WILL FERGUSON Office of Communications and External Relations
Victoria Erb stood in the back of the boat with her classmates and watched three sharks cut through the crystal clear water of Belize’s Great Blue Hole. The senior biology major then did the one thing the vast majority of people in this Read more »