From the Charlotte Observer, Feb 9, 2014 by Reid Creager
Sure, it resembles a spider on steroids. But a recently developed flying robot – soon to hover over the Peruvian cloud forest for the first time – has potential benefits for everyone.
About a year and a half ago, a small team Read more »
Several news agencies have published stories recently about unique research conducted by Max Messinger and Miles Silman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Silman’s group is making use of “flying robots” to photograph and measure data from the forest canopy. Messinger is the local expert on how to turn these Read more »
Where Science meets Art, you will find Biologists!
Biology professor Kathy Kron and the 11 students enrolled in her course Biology 105: Plants & People incorporate the study of plants and their stylized depiction in art. Students are given the chance to study excellent examples of artistic still life paintings and Read more »
The Old Gold and Black recently ran a short piece on Professor David J. Anderson. Dr. Anderson answers questions about why he is at Wake Forest, what he enjoys about teaching, and some interesting facts from his prolific research career.
Since 1982, I have been studying a population of seabirds called Read more »
An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian. It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science.
Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow Read more »