WFU Physics in the News!

2013

• Apr 2013: Grad Student Matthew Walb Wins First Place Poster at SEAAMP
• Apr 2013: Kristine Cantin Receives G. W. Greene Scholarship
• Apr 2013: Amanda Smelser Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Apr 2013: Dr. Canepa's scientific artwork selected for PRB frontpage
• Apr 2013: Grad Student Katelyn Goetz awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Mar 2013: Joel Grim Invited to Speak at International Conference
• Mar 2013: Article by Williams Group Selected as Phys. Rev. B Editors' Suggestion
• Mar 2013: Research Focuses on Beet Juice After Stroke
• Feb 2013: Prof. Oana Jurchescu Awarded Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• Feb 2013: Physics Alumni Dr. Yuan Li's Ph.D Thesis Highlighted in Nature Photonics
• Jan 2013: Prof. Oana Jurchescu wins the National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Jan 2013: Prof. Thonhauser Recognized in International News

2012

• Dec 2012: Dr. Canepa's research highlighted in PRL
• Nov 2012: Carroll Group's FIPEL Lighting Featured in Media
• Nov 2012: Article co-authored by Prof Salsbury featured on cover of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• Nov 2012: Chen Liu Wins Young Investigator Award
• Nov 2012: Physics Alumni Dr. Yuan Li ('12) Wins Environmental Research Award
• Oct 2012: Physics Team to Lead Search for Drug Discovery
• Oct 2012: Article by Prof. Jurchescu and grad student Jeremy Ward featured on the cover of Advanced Materials
• Oct 2012: Wake Forest to Host Stuttgart NanoDays Conference
• Sep 2012: Workshop for Middle School Teachers Organized by Prof. Cho is Featured in Media
• Sep 2012: Article in WS Journal on Tech Expo Features Beet-Root Juice
• Aug 2012: Article by Lacra Negureanu of the Salsbury Group Selected for Inaugural Contribution to Proteopedia
• Aug 2012: Prof. Thonhauser receives NSF CAREER award
• Aug 2012: Carroll Group's Power Felt Featured on CNN International
• Aug 2012: Prof. Cho Organizes the Wake@Hanes Computational Thinking Workshop for Middle School Teachers
• Jun 2012: Qi Li Wins Young Researcher Award at ICDIM 2012
• Jun 2012: Prof. Jurchescu Publishes a Book Chapter
• Jun 2012: Electronic Structure Conference at WFU
• Jun 2012: Graham Lopez Selected for Prestigious ORNL Fellowship
• Jun 2012: Power Felt Research by Carroll Group at the Nanotech Center Featured in Media
• Apr 2012: Graduate Student Katelyn Goetz Awarded NSF Fellowship
• Apr 2012: Prof. Jurchescu awarded WFU Faculty Endowment Fund Fellowship
• Apr 2012: Nick Lepley and Greg Smith Awarded Venture Seed Grant for 3d Printing
• Apr 2012: Two Physics Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• Mar 2012: Physics Graduate Students Awarded Best Analytical Posters
• Mar 2012: Physics Undergraduate Soham Banerjee Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
• Mar 2012: Article Written by the Salsbury Research Group Selected for Journal Cover
• Mar 2012: Nanotech Center Develops Power Felt
• Mar 2012: Physics Undergraduate Kristen Binz Wins APS Presentation Award
• Feb 2012: Cho Research Group Highlighted in the Media
• Jan 2012: Grad Student Jeremy Ward Wins Best Presentation at ISDRS
• Jan 2012: Paper by Prof. Cho Highlighted in JACS

2011

• Dec 2011: Physics Undergraduates Win Bronze Medal in International University Physics Competition
• Dec 2011: Dr. Carroll and the Nanotech Center are trying to develop a feasible solar collector for third world countries
• Nov 2011: Brandon Turner, senior biophysics major, wins Rhodes Scholarship
• Nov 2011: Physics Team is working toward understanding cancer
• Nov 2011: Prof. Carlson Interviewed by Press About the Public's Fascination with Numbers
• Sep 2011: Physics Department Announces the New Randall D. Ledford Scholarship II
• Sep 2011: Thonhauser group receives funding to investigate MOFs for hydrogen storage and gas separation
• Aug 2011: Published work advances flexible electronics at WFU Nanotech Center
• Aug 2011: Wake Forest University Selected as NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center
• Aug 2011: Claire McLellan wins National Society of Physics Students Leadership Award
• Aug 2011: Williams Group Awarded Grant to Further Radiation Detector Research
• Jul 2011: Graduate Student Andrea Belanger Selected for NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
• Jul 2011: Kim-Shapiro lab helps discover why stored blood deteriorates
• Jul 2011: Dr. Thonhauser interviewed by ScienceWatch, Thomson Reuters for most-cited paper
• Jun 2011: Dr. Guthold named a Wake Forest Faculty Fellow for 2011-2013
• Apr 2011: Dr. Thonhauser named a Ranlet and Frank Bell Jr. Fellow for 2011-2013
• Apr 2011: Ivan Azarov named 2011 Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Doctoral Student
• Apr 2011: Prof. Jed Macosko and colleagues awarded grant to develop interactive e-textbook, BioBook
• Apr 2011: Undergraduate Student Claire McLellan wins Goldwater Scholarship
• Feb 2011: Graduate Student Joel Grim Wins Award
• Feb 2011: Article by the Williams Research Group Selected for Journal Cover
• Feb 2011: Associate Prof. Fred Salsbury wins the Award for Excellence in Research
• Jan 2011: Prof. Thonhauser selected as 2011 - 2013 KITP Scholar

2010

• Nov 2010: WFU Team Wins Silver in University Physics Competition
• Oct 2010: Physics Undergraduates Present Research at International Conference
• Jul 2010: Physics Team works on Drug Development
• Jun 2010: Prof. Jurchescu receives the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• May 2010: Graduate Student Jason Bates Awarded Best Student Talk at Eastern Gravity Meeting
• May 2010: Prof. Macosko's CellCraft Game to be Featured at the White House
• May 2010: Physics Undergraduate Brandon Turner Awarded APS Minority Fellowship
• Apr 2010: WFU Undergraduate Physics Majors Present Research Results at SPS Meeting
• Apr 2010: Wake Forest receives patent for new fiber solar cells developed by Prof. Carroll's group at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials
• Jan 2010: Prof. Jed Macosko helps create "Cell Side Story", an animated film by students at Atkins High School.

2009

• Dec 2009: Prof Jed Macosko and two WFU graduates are developing "CellCraft" game.
• Dec 2009: Professor Kim-Shapiro's work cited in Wall Street Journal Article
• Oct 2009: Professor Kim-Shapiro Awarded Grant to Study Blood Storage
• Oct 2009: Physics Department Featured in Classroom Response Story
• Aug 2009: Graduate student Leo Ding's work featured on AIP web site
• July 2009: Prof. Carroll to appear on History Channel program
• July 2009: Welcome to Dr. Oana Jurchescu, new Assistant Professor
• May 2009: Eric Peterson awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• May 2009: Prof. Macosko, Yuri Shtridelman, and a WFU alum win MacArthur Award
• May 2009: Prof. Thonhauser receives the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• May 2009: Prof. Macosko presented with the first Hobbs Award for Faculty Entrepreneurial Achievement
• Apr 2009: Graduating Physics major Patrick Nelli wins US News All Academic Team Award
• Mar 2009: Venture Directed by Prof. Macosko Funded by NC Grant
• Mar 2009: Prof. Martin Guthold is awarded the University's 2009 Award for Excellence in Research
• Feb 2009: Prof. Kim-Shapiro named Harbert Family Distinguished Chair

2008

• Dec 2008: Reynolds Professor Fetrow named Dean of the College
• Oct 2008: Nanoscopic screening process to speed drug discovery
• Oct 2008: Research at the Nanotechnology Center has big potential
• Sep 2008: Prof. Carlson explains the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider on WXII 12 News
• Sep 2008: Professor Kim-Shapiro to be first recipient of the new Harbert Family Distinguished Chair
• July 2008: Welcome to Dr. Timo Thonhauser, new Assistant Professor
• July 2008: Prof. Carroll in TV interview July 6
• May 2008: Christine Carlisle wins prestigious American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship
• Apr. 2008: Rick Matthews Appointed WFU Associate Provost, Information Systems
• Mar. 2008: WFU Physicists Present Research at APS Meeting
• Feb. 2008: Prof. Carroll discusses nanotechnology on PBS
• Jan. 2008: Prof. Carroll featured in The Business Journal

2007

• Nov. 2007: Prof. Carroll featured speaker at the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce
• Nov., 2007: WFU researchers discover new hemoglobin function
• Sep., 2007: Prof. Fetrow selected for NIH Center for Scientific Review study section
• July, 2007: WFU Launches Two Nanotechnology Startup Companies
• April, 2007: Prof. Jed Macosko Wins Teaching Award for Entrepreneurship Class
• April, 2007: Kim-Shapiro Wins Prestigious NIH Merit Award
• April, 2007: Martin Guthold Promoted to Associate Professor.
• Mar., 2007: Physics Major Patrick Nelli is awarded a scholarship by the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation

2006

• Sept., 2006: Blood clot research by Guthold and colleagues published in Science
• June, 2006: Daniel Kim-Shapiro interviewed on WFDD Voices and Viewpoints
• June, 2006: 7th International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter
• March, 2006: Fetrow and John win Teaching Innovation Award
• February, 2006: Greg Cook wins Excellence in Research Award

2005

• November, 2005: Breakthrough in organic photovoltaics
• November, 2005: Letter to Wall Street Journal regarding Intelligent Design article
• October, 2005: Project Pumpkin Mad Scientists
• April, 2005: WFU welcomes 8th Eastern Gravity Conference
• March, 2005: Greg Cook Awarded Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellowship
• February, 2005: Martin Guthold wins Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching

2004

• September, 2004: Carroll Co-organizer of MRS Nanotube Symposium
• August, 2004: Cable elected PIRA VP
• July, 2004: Ben Harrison wins ACS Fellowship
• February, 2004: One-Dimensional Metals -- new book by Dave Carroll

2003

• November, 2003: New York Times Cites Department Research
• October, 2003: Mad scientists help host Project Pumpkin
• March, 2003: Students and faculty present papers at national meetings

2002

• April, 2002: Physics Awards and Honors: Sigma Pi Sigma, Speas, Outstanding TA.
• April, 2002: John Wilkinson and Gang Xiong win Richter Awards.
• March, 2002: Faculty and Students attend APS March Meeting in Indianapolis.
• February, 2002: WFU physicists attend Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco.
• February, 2002: Daniel Kim-Shapiro wins Excellence in Research award.