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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 […]


Links from “An Evening with Professor S. James Gates Jr.”

Delta-Phy https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/ https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/researchsecurty.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/movingneedle.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/teamup.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/removebarriers.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/passiontoaction.cfm Einsteinian Links http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/einstein3.html https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/ https://libguides.lincoln.edu/historic https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/04/archives/einstein-is-honored-by-lincoln-university.html


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 […]


Alumni Spotlight – Shane Hutson

Shane Hutson was once an undergraduate student in the Wake Forest Department of Physics. Now he’s a professor and endowed chair at a major research university. Professor George Holzwarth talks with Shane Hutson about his experience at Wake Forest and how it helped prepare him […]


Alumni Spotlight – Tim Kreutzfeldt

Former Wake physics student Tim Kreutzfeldt is now a software engineer working at Lockheed Martin in the Advanced Technology Laboratory. In this interview, Professor Jed Macosko discusses with Tim his career path and how his education helped prepare him. Prof. Macosko: How did Wake Forest […]


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