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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sophia Lourduraj is a current third-year student at Wake Forest studying biophysics. In a discussion with Professor Freddie Salsbury she shares her own unique Wake story and tells us about her interest in the intersection between biology and physics: biophysics. Prof. Salsbury: What led you […]
The Wake Forest Physics Department fosters a tight-knit academic community centered around close collaboration between students and professors. This stimulating and supportive environment is often the birthplace for innovation. One great example is found in the story of Dr. Vikas Pandey, co-founder of Valetude Primus […]
Professor Stephen Baker recently published an article in Communications Medicine titled “Plasma from patients with pulmonary embolism show aggregates that reduce after anticoagulation”. The intriguing background story behind this study can be accessed here. . Professor Baker’s study investigates the formation of blood […]