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URECA student research day is held in the fall each year during Family Weekend. It began nearly 20 years ago and has grown ever since. This year, 140 undergraduate students and more than 120 faculty mentors participated in the event. It provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to present their recently completed and ongoing research projects in both poster format and in oral presentations.

Students present their findings to peers, faculty members, staff and family members.   

Topics ranged from mathematical models to get a better understanding of multiple capillary layers in the human retina to study eye diseases, to exploring the use of a specific type of carbon dot for the detection and removal of PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

The undergraduate research experience through URECA often extends beyond family weekend. Some students continue to work with a faculty mentor, go to conferences and present research with their mentors or end up as co-authors on research papers. 

Since 2008, URECA has funded more than 800 summer scholars.

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We 💛 Wake Forest families! #GoDeacs

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Family Weekend is here. Let the fun begin! #GoDeacs

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Physics graduate student David Carchipulla-Morales (Ph.D. ’23) has been awarded the prestigious Future Investigators NASA Earth and Space Science Technology grant for his research work on energy and water exchange in tropical forests. Only about 100 proposals were selected for the grant out of nearly 1,000 applications. @wakeengineering assistant professor Lauren Lowman was named the principal investigator for the research project and will provide advising and mentorship.

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Young leaders from six Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon will head back home with a new vision and resources to tackle pressing environmental and social issues in their communities.

During their visit to Wake Forest this month, the Indigenous leader delegation spent several days on campus meeting with students, staff and faculty, sharing their stories and exchanging ideas with local indigenous leaders.

The program is called Connecting Cultures. The initiative is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of State, Wake Forest’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA), and the University’s Center for Energy, the Environment and Sustainability (CEES), with additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and several other private funders.

Programming focused on topics impacting Indigenous communities in Peru, including conservation and territory management; tribal education; gender equality; community surveillance systems; and sustainable economic activities.

An accompanying art exhibit – “MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction?” at the University’s Lam Museum of Anthropology – opened during the delegation’s visit to campus. Indigenous leaders spoke with the crowd about mining in their territory and gave a slide presentation of what they are seeing in their communities.

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A little goat yoga to end the week! 🐐