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Landscape of a leader’s brain
April 29, 2013 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, School of Business, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Wake Forest’s Sean Hannah and a team of researchers have found measuring activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain can help assess that person’s potential for leadership — which could have a big impact on how future leaders are tested and trained.
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After the Genome: Medicine, miracles, morality
April 8, 2013 | Events, Faculty, National, Provost, Research, School of Divinity, School of Medicine, Speakers, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Medical advances in biotechnology seem to be coming faster than the public can understand them or even discuss how society should handle ethical, legal and moral considerations. To spark the national conversation, Wake Forest has partnered with Baylor to host “After the Genome: The Language of our Biotechnological Future” April 12-13.
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Bee impressed at ACC Meeting of the Minds
April 3, 2013 | Campus Life, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Mentoring, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but this might not be the case for a honeybee. Just ask David Hale (’15), a sophomore biology major. Hale has been studying the relationship between brain structure and cognitive function in honeybees since his freshman year.
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Making music wins over computer science majors
March 8, 2013 | Campus Life, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A Wake Forest professor finds the key to harmonious computer science studies is to introduce students to technology with digital audio.
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Dinner and an ethical dilemma
November 19, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Students in Pat Lord’s Bio 367 Virology class helped create a new program designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills about bioethics outside the classroom. And it all started with dinner … and a movie.
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Fueling a passion to teach
September 27, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Timo Thonhauser has taken on one of the toughest problems of making hydrogen cars a reality: hydrogen storage. His research is supported by the most prestigious award the National Science Foundation has to offer for young scientists, given to a select few junior faculty nationwide who excel as teacher-scholars.
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Talking Tech in Winston-Salem
September 18, 2012 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Daniel Kim-Shapiro, physicist and director of Wake Forest’s Translational Science Center, will offer beet juice samples after his talk at the upcoming Technology Briefing, which highlights innovative local companies and institutions. Three others with WFU ties also will present.
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U.S. News ranks WFU 13th in teaching
September 12, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching. The list highlights “schools where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
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Computers in the middle
September 4, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When Wake Forest computer science professors and students introduce new ways to teach computer science to middle school students, the teachers at Hanes Magnet School can’t wait to experiment with technology.
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Hatch featured in Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, President, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Author and religious scholar Stephen Prothero named Wake Forest University President Nathan O. Hatch’s “The Democratization of American Christianity” one of the five best books on religion and politics in the Wall Street Journal.
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