Forecasters at the United Nations last fall updated their projections for the growth of cities across the planet over the next 15 years. World Urbanization Prospects is the type of report that fuels worry about teeming masses huddled amid poverty…
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Book Review – #EdJourney
The task of educating our children faces more social and technological disruption and more uncertainty about the future than at any time in the past century. Can our schools break free of what worked in the past (but no longer…
Privacy in the Age of Cellphones
Although the paranoid among us fear a long-running government conspiracy to track our every move à la Orwell’s 1984—and to be sure, technology now makes that possible—the path to having GPS in every pocket was more uncertain, less coordinated and…
Passion for Global Health Drives Medical Student
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center website — May 15, 2013 Fourth-year medical student Tracy Cassagnol almost chose a career in journalism, but an undergraduate trip to report on farm workers in the Bahamas sparked a change of heart. “I…
Mumps and Whooping Cough: Researchers Seek New Cures for Old Foes
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—January 2013 Over the past decade, the United States has seen outbreaks of mumps and whooping cough, despite childhood immunization programs in place since the 1960s. Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) researchers are…
Seed Money Launches Successful Arthritis Research Program
Wake Forest School of Medicine website—December 2012 Research funding from the National Institutes of Health and from foundations is extremely competitive. Only about one in 10 grant applications advances beyond the initial peer review process to be considered for…
Wake Forest School of Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative – 2011 Annual Report
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Knowledge is Power
Biomedical informatics offers powerful new tools Wake Forest Baptist Health — Insight magazine, October – December 2011 Smartphones and tablets, using applications like Facebook, Twitter and Google, are rapidly changing daily life by keeping people connected and informed wherever they…
Partnering for Success
Winston-Salem Monthly – January 2011 When Meg Marion advises prospective business owners about investing in a franchise, she not only understands their hopes and fears, she brings firsthand experience to the conversation. In 2004, she became a franchisee of The…
IP and entertainment lawyer Yemi Adegbonmire (’05) encourages students ‘to nurture every interest’
Wake Forest University School of Law website – December 9, 2010 Most people can only dream about the experiences that Yemi Adegbonmire (’00 JD ’05) routinely enjoys as an entertainment industry lawyer. She has worked on television contracts for…