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Alumni Spotlight – Michael Font

Dr. Michael Font — Wake Physics class of ’11 — is a practicing anesthesiologist in Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to that he taught biology to middle schoolers in Washington, D.C.. In this interview Professor Kim-Shapiro discusses with Dr. Font the development of his career and […]


Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Taska

Andrew Taska was once an undergraduate student in the Wake Forest Department of Physics. Now he’s a partner at one of the top patent law firms in the world. Professor Kim-Shapiro discusses with Andrew Taska about his experience at Wake Forest and how it helped […]


Alumni Spotlight – Cenji Yu

Meet Cenji Yu, medical physics PhD student at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Cenji graduated from the Wake Forest Department of Physics in 2018. Professor Salsbury discusses with Cenji his experiences as an undergraduate and how Wake prepared him for graduate studies. […]


Alumni Spotlight – Jack Janes

Meet Jack Janes, Wake Forest University class of 2015. While at Wake, Jake studied physics and worked in the laboratory of Professor Kim-Shapiro. Now he is a cloud infrastructure engineer working for Nava, a public benefit corporation. Professor Kim-Shapiro discusses with Jack his experiences working […]


Alumni Spotlight – Brandon Turner

While an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University, Dr. Brandon Turner was drawn to physics because of its ambition to explain phenomena at both the sub-atomic and cosmological scales. Now he is a fourth year resident in the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. Professor Freddie Salsbury […]


Congratulations Lindsey Gray

PhD student Lindsey Gray and Professor Dave Carroll have co-authored an Impact Article in MRS Bulletin. These are selected articles that are expected to have a high impact on materials research and society in general. The large entry cost of solar makes it unattainable for […]


Olivia Caulfield Receives Fulbright Award

Congratulations to physics undergraduate student Olivia Caulfield, who recently received the Fulbright Award! This summer Olivia will be working at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC on a project in the field of information security. She will be performing research in the laboratory […]


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