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Myths and monsters

November 22, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

In Tina Boyer’s first-year seminar class, students meet dragons, giants and other mythological creatures.

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Mixing it up

November 1, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Junior Brandon Turner’s research integrates multiple fields and comes under the mentoring eye of Jacque Fetrow, dean of the college. He received the 2010-2011 American Physical Society Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors.

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Building a stronger classroom

September 22, 2010  |   Faculty, Graduate School, Staff, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

The Teaching and Learning Center, under the direction of Catherine Ross, provides workshops and other resources designed to help Wake Forest faculty keep pace with students and the changing ways they learn.

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The real India

September 10, 2010  |   Faculty, International, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Communication professor Ananda Mitra and his wife led a trip to India this summer for 11 Wake Forest students, allowing them to learn about the country from an insider’s point of view.

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Green fruit, deep roots

September 10, 2010  |   Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Biology Professor Gloria K. Muday’s research could lead to better roots and a stronger crop of summer-ripe tomatoes.

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Professor promotes community learning

August 29, 2010  |   Community, Faculty, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Music professor Susan Borwick jettisoned some elements of the more traditional classroom setting and chose instead to turn the Winston-Salem community into a liberal arts learning environment to breathe new life into her course on American music.

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A senior mentor

August 24, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Decades of working with undergraduates in his chemistry research has earned chemistry professor Ron Noftle national recognition.

University ranks 12th in teaching quality

August 16, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”

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Senior joins professor to study microfinance projects

May 26, 2010  |   International, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College

Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.

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Rewarding research: Student’s chemistry work helps advance solar-cell technology

May 24, 2010  |   Graduate School, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College, Working Together

The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.

Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.