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…
The Fire Inside
Book Review: AND SO IT GOES: KURT VONNEGUT: A LIFE by Charles J. Shields Henry Holt and Co., 2011 Many biographies include in their titles the phrase, “a life.” When it comes to Kurt Vonnegut, what a life it…
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…
The Helicopter’s Unrealized Potential
Book Review: How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare by Walter J. Boyne Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 This book is a must-read for anyone interested in flying machines and particularly for those who like military history. For everyone attending the…
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…
Parallel Paths
Peace Corps helped twins launch science careers WorldView magazine –Winter 2010-11 Identical twins Daniel Kim-Shapiro and David Shapiro-Ilan have more in common than matching DNA. Both 49-year olds are high-level research scientists. Both credit Peace Corps volunteer service 25 years…
“Swarm Intelligence” Could Transform Cyber Security
Government Technology’s Digital Communities website – September 25, 2009 In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature’s hardiest creatures – the ant. Unlike traditional security…
HPV Vaccine Study Shows Why Few Women Getting Shots
Drugs.com–September 11, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Sales of Merck’s HPV vaccine, Gardasil, declined by a third this year, and three years after the FDA approved the drug an estimated three out of four women remain unvaccinated —…