Dr. Lowman and her PhD student David Carchipulla-Morales, along with other colleagues, recently published a new article on the importance of canopy plants in regulating temperatures and water storage in tropical forests: Read it HERE.
To Dr. William Crowe, Dr. Saami Yazdani, and Dr. Kyana Young for all being successful in having proposals funded over the summer. See more information about their project titles, here.
Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in early March 2025 as strong winds, abnormally dry conditions and low humidity combined to kindle and spread the flames. The fires followed a year of weather whiplash in the Carolinas, from a flash drought over […]
Dr. Courtney Di Vittorio, Assistant Professor of Engineering, wrote an article for The Conversation answering the question: Why is water different colors in different places? The article is a part of The Conversation’s “Curious Kids” series, which allows children to ask questions and hear from experts.
This fall, nearly 50 students in Engineering 112: Introduction to Engineering Experimentation explored Lake Katharine as a living lab for campus sustainability. For the first time, Dr. Kyle Luthy and Dr. Joshua Dickenson teamed up to teach two sections of the course, which is designed to introduce […]
Effective engineers should be effective communicators. But communication skills can also be a way to cultivate character, promote ethical development, and encourage more professional conduct. That’s the conclusion of a new award-winning paper written by collaborators from the Wake Forest Department of Engineering… Read […]
The lab, led by Dr. Lauren Lowman, examines how extreme conditions impact vegetation and water quantity It’s a cloudy day outside Wake Downtown. On the fourth floor, Wake Forest engineering professor and researcher Dr. Lauren Lowman sits surrounded by open windows and clouds. Lowman leads […]
Congratulations to Dr. Erin Henslee on being awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program National Science Foundation (NSF) award entitled: CAREER: Investigating the Cellular Electrome as a Biomarker in Red Blood Cell Physiology and Pathology. Congratulations Dr. Henslee on this tremendous accomplishment! Read more […]
Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Di Vittorio and Dr. Lauren Lowman on being a part of a newly funded National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant. This award entitled ‘Scalable Models, Fast Computation and Predictability for Spatio-temporal Ordinal Data’ is an interdisciplinary project to develop new statistical […]
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests (TMCFs), which are unique tropical ecosystems that occur in a narrow altitudinal band between 800 and 3500 meters on mountains, are important ecosystems to study and conserve due to their exceedingly high biodiversity as well as the critical roles they play […]