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The Lucy Robbins Fellowship Award was established in the spring of 2005 in memory of Lucy Robbins, the late wife of WFUHS faculty member Dr. Michael Robbins. The award will be given annually to a current fourth-year graduate student conducting cancer-related research and will be based on academic ability, including outstanding academic and research expertise, demonstrated leadership, outstanding interpersonal skills and a commitment to the ideals of excellence in academic research. This years award winner is Mr. Andrew Burke, a PhD Candidate... read more »

Publication of Boccaccio Geografo, a collection edited by Associate Professor of Romance Languages Roberta Morosini, was sponsored by Ente Nazionale G. Boccaccio and Wake Forest University(http://www.polistampa.com/public/static/sl_5090.htm). The volume examines fourteenth-century geography and Boccaccio’s approach in describing lands and customs surrounding the Mediterranean. The author of the Decameron was the first to write a full treatise on the rivers, lakes, and mountains of Italy and the first to study the Canary Islands, called in his time “the Fortunate Islands”. Boccaccio Geografo... read more »

A major breakthrough in how to target and destroy the most malignant and aggressive brain cancer cells has been made by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. “Treatment of patients with Glioblastoma multiforme is still a major challenge, as GBM is extremely difficult to manage,” said Waldemar Debinski, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence at Wake Forest Baptist. Hetal Pandya, a Ph.D. student in Debinski’s lab and the first author on the paper, has... read more »