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August 2010 Staff News

Doug Bland, an associate athletic director, is celebrating 35 years of service this month, while Zella Johnson, an administrative assistant in the biology department, is celebrating 30 years of service. More anniversaries and news in this month’s Staff News.

Newest residence hall set to open

South Residence Hall, the first campus building designed to meet LEED certification, will be home to about 200 first-year students this fall and will be dedicated on Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. Step inside for a preview.

Categories: Experiential Learning


Rogers now finds joy in giving back

Former basketball star Rodney Rogers, who was paralyzed in an accident in 2008, has started a foundation to raise money to help people facing similar medical hardships.

Categories: Athletics


Deacon seniors look ahead to season

With the start of the 2010 football season just six weeks away, seniors Russell Nenon and Josh Adams talk about the Wake Forest offense in the post-Riley Skinner era, at the annual ACC Football Kickoff event.

Categories: Athletics


Promising research breakthrough

Wake Forest physics professors Martin Guthold, left to right, Keith Bonin and Jed Macosko. A new technique developed by several Wake Forest physics professors could slash years off the time it takes to develop drugs, bringing vital new treatments to patients much more quickly.

Categories: Research & Discovery


The Character Project

Christian Miller is the lead investigator of a $3.67 million grant, the largest ever received for humanities research at Wake Forest, to study character. aBecause understanding character lies at the heart of human identity, philosophers, psychologists and theologians have long wrestled with how to define good character and how to improve character. Wake Forest professors Christian Miller (philosophy), William F. Fleeson (psychology) and Michael R. Furr (psychology) have been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.

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