Homecoming Reception 2021
The Physics Department faculty and staff invite you to our Homecoming reception and demo show on Saturday, October 30.
Professor Guthold Awarded Fellowship
Professor Martin Guthold has been awarded the Kulynych Family Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2026. This and other fellowships recognize Wake Forest’s best teacher-scholars. Congratulations, Martin!
Alumni Spotlight – Fernando Rigal
Congratulations to Wake Physics alum Fernando Rigal, who was recently awarded a fellowship within the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Fernando is now a PhD student in the Physics department of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In this interview, Fernando […]
Alumni Spotlight – Jacquelyn Sharpe
Meet Jacquelyn Sharpe, Wake Forest University class of 2019. While at Wake, Jacquelyn received a Richter scholarship and worked in the laboratory of Dr. Guthold, eventually publishing a paper in Nanomaterials. In this interview, Dr. Guthold discusses with Jacquelyn her experiences after graduating and how […]
Congratulations Emily Foley!
This summer, junior physics undergraduate student Emily Foley will be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. She will contribute to a project involving the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a cutting edge […]
Congratulations Josiah Brinson!
Josiah Brinson, junior physics student at Wake Forest, will be conducting research this summer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Sciences Division, in Washington, DC. This opportunity is made possible by the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Josiah will be working in the […]
Congratulations Jarlem Lopez Morel!
Undergraduate researcher Jarlem Lopez Morel from the Jurchescu lab has been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program fellowship to perform research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The 11 week NIST SURF Gaithersburg program will run from […]
Alumni Spotlight – Scott Smyre
Meet Scott Smyre, Wake Forest University class of 2016. Scott continued on at Wake and is now a fourth year PhD student in the neuroscience program. In this interview, Scott shares with Professor Macosko his experiences with undergraduate research and provides advice to any prospective […]
Alumni Spotlight – Adam O’Dell
Adam O’Dell graduated from Wake Forest University in 2016 and is now a research lab manager at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles. In the following interview with Professor Macosko, Adam reflects upon his experiences as a student and shares the […]
Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Wall
Meet Andrew Wall, Wake Forest University class of 2008. While at WFU, Andrew worked in biophysics with Dr. Jed Macosko and Dr. George Holzwarth and later in condensed matter laser physics with the late Dr. Richard Williams. He now works at Microsoft where he’s helping engineer […]
