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…
Author: Eric F. Frazier
Eric F. Frazier is an independent writer, editor, book reviewer and co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.
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 —…
Animated Biotechnology
ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals – August 25, 2009 This fall, seniors at Atkins Academic and Technology High School in Winston-Salem, NC, will learn about biotechnology and produce animated educational videos about the science through a joint project with local…
Biographers continue to mine Washington’s life
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)—February 19, 2004 George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday receives somewhat less attention since the creation of the generic Presidents Day, but he continues to inspire new books from historians and biographers. According to the most widely recognized…