Media Advisory: Make the most of a college campus visit
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Events open the gates
A look back at events on campus last year includes a conference for higher education administrators to contemplate what success means for college graduates, writers sharing their craft, and technological and entrepreneurial innovation through a variety of speakers.Categories: Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Strength training to reduce knee pain
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Media Advisory: European teens to hold ‘around the world tour’ for local children
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Married to your major? Not at WFU
Choosing a major is a stressful decision for many college students because many believe their concentration will put them on a one-way path to a certain career. But an inside look into the summer internships of four Wake Forest students shows that when it comes to career goals, what matters most is not their majors, but their passions.Strength training to reduce knee pain
Building on the results of short-term studies showing the benefits of strength training on knee osteoarthritis (OA), professor of health and exercise science Stephen Messier will lead a five-year study to learn what level of strength training will help older adults the most.
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Expert available: Genocide 17 years later
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Genocide 17 years later
In an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, political science professor and genocide expert Sarah Lischer writes that "future concord depends on the stories we tell" about the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Ginsburg speaks to law study abroad
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be a guest lecturer during the School of Law’s Venice and Vienna Study Abroad Programs in the summer of 2012. “We are thrilled that Justice Ginsburg has so graciously agreed to once again share her expertise with our students in our study abroad programs,” said Dean Blake D. Morant.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Reaching out to Nicaraguan children
Student volunteers from Wake Forest work with NicaHope in Nicaragua to help the approximately 500 children who live and work in an area of Managua called “La Chureca” — the city dump. The outreach has built lasting connections.