Oakes named Chief Diversity Officer at UNLV
Chief Diversity Officer and Assistant Provost Barbee Oakes will become Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on Sept. 1.Categories: University Announcements
Chief Diversity Officer and Assistant Provost Barbee Oakes will become Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on Sept. 1.Synthetic horns may save rhinos if they are not like the real thing
Research suggests that the market structure of the synthetic horn sector and the type of synthetic horns produced matter greatly in rhino conservation efforts.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Board of Trustees increasingly reflects changes in student, alumni population
Wake Forest University’s most diverse class of Trustees took office for terms beginning July 1, 2017. The governing group more closely reflects the current makeup of the University’s students, faculty and alumni. Categories: University Announcements
Pair female engineering students for projects, and they flourish
Female first-year students earn a higher grade when paired with at least one other female for group projects in introductory college engineering classes, according to new research by a Wake Forest University professor.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Anna Julia Cooper Center launches Freedom School for local children
Students can lose two months of reading skills in the summer and spend up to six weeks in the fall relearning what they lost. The new Freedom School program at Wake Forest University aims to keep children’s reading skills sharp all summer.Students named to WFU’s spring 2017 Dean’s List
The following Wake Forest University students have been named to the University's Dean's List for the 2017 spring semester. Students who achieve a 3.4 grade average and no grade below a C were named to the list.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning
Father’s Day: WFU expert available on ‘Dadvertising,’ divorce & more
Wake Forest education professor Linda Nielsen is an ideal expert source for Father’s Day stories. For more than 25 years, Nielsen has taught “Fathers and Daughters,” the only known college class in the country devoted exclusively to dad-daughter relationships.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
How to be good: Finding a beacon for moral growth
The Beacon Project is a three-year project, which launched in 2015 with a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The project has awarded grants to 21 researchers around the world in psychology, philosophy and theology.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
WFU awards and recognitions briefs
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
WFU students named to Kemper Scholars Program
Wake Forest University students Jenny Hannah and Harry Young IV, both rising sophomores, have been selected from a group of national finalists to become two of 16 in this year’s incoming class of the Kemper Scholars Program.