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College of the overwhelmed

Today's college students unpack high expectations and anxiety when they move into their residence-hall rooms. Today’s college students bring higher expectations and greater anxiety than their parents faced when they started college, says the counseling center’s Johnne Armentrout.

Categories: Experiential Learning


Money trouble? Talk to the kids

In these difficult economic times, it’s important to talk to your children about money and assure them that you have everything under control — but don’t make promises you can’t keep, says psychology professor Christy Buchanan in USA Today.

Class ring resurfaces after 52 years

After losing his law school class ring in an airport in Gander, Newfoundland, more than 50 years ago, Lloyd Rector (JD ’53) never thought he’d see it again — until someone in Gander tracked him down. Read the story from NBC News in Chicago.

Categories: Community Impact


Caging a bird

Carson Moseley (’09) and other graduates uncover a possible flu treatment. A research team that includes four Wake Forest graduates has identified a promising approach to reducing mortality in a flu pandemic.

Categories: Research & Discovery


N.C. unemployment rate levels off

There are signs that North Carolina’s unemployment rate may have leveled off, but it could be months before the employment rate improves, says economics professor Robert Whaples.

Categories: Community Impact


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