Congratulations to Joseph McCalmon, Ashley Peake and Samuel Schwartz! They have been named 2021 Barry S. Goldwater Scholars for the 2021-22 academic year. Goldwater Scholars have impressive academic and research credentials that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in these fields….
Assistant Teaching Professor, Microbiology The Department of Biology at Wake Forest University invites applicants for an Assistant Teaching Professor position to begin July 1, 2021. The successful candidate will teach an upper-level general microbiology course with two laboratory sections each semester. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in microbiology or a related discipline. We seek candidates…
POSITION FILLED Biology Core Preparator The Department of Biology at Wake Forest University invites applicants for a part-time staff position at the rank of Biology Core Preparator. The Core Preparator prepares Biology core teaching laboratories for instruction under supervision of the Core Labs Coordinator and Assistant Core Labs Coordinator. Sets up, maintains, and removes experimental…
While most Wake Forest students went home after learning that classes would be taught remotely for the remainder of the semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Davis Feldman headed to New York to work in a hospital built for coronavirus patients. During the six-week stint, he lived with other volunteers in a New Jersey hotel…
Ethan Green (’19), an army second lieutenant and doctoral candidate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, is working on the effort to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19, the only active-duty military member on the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) team in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is working on harvesting…
Birds 101: Wake Forest students head to Florida to find birds follows the story of Dr. David J. Anderson and Riley Herriman (’22), Wake Forest’s Communications & External Relations’ student photographer, over the Spring Break 2020 course BIO 255, Bird Taxonomy, trip to Florida. Dr. Anderson has been teaching this course since 1996. Our department…
Dr. William Conner and his co-researcher Dr. Nicholas Dowdy have found that certain members of the Tiger moth family do not duck and dive from predatory bats with the same vigor as their counterparts. Strikingly, we observed that moths with weak or no chemical defences often dive away to escape bat attacks. However, moths with…
Dr. Pat Lord discusses the Coronavirus with USA Today in the article “Everything you need to know about coronavirus, the deadly illness alarming the world” published on January 29, 2020. The coronavirus (which has nothing to do with Corona beer) is a word that has become all too common in today’s society due to an…
The Museum of Anthropology’s new exhibit ‘Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World‘ will be open through May 15, 2020. Stop by to learn about diseases and epidemics showcased in this exhibit by Dr. Pat Lord’s first-year seminar students! Admission is free. The Museum is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30…
In a new study published October 21, 2019, in the Integrative Organismal Biology peer-reviewed journal, WFU researcher Noah Bressman reported for the first time the water conditions that could drive snakeheads onto land. Snakeheads move more quickly and erratically than once believed. The fish we studied moved super quickly on rough surfaces such as grass,…
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