Reynolds named law associate dean
School of Law Professor Suzanne Reynolds has been named to a three-year term as the school’s Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
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Parents with cancer worry about children
Cancer patients with children have the added pressure of worrying about their children, said Dr. Kathryn Weaver of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, author of a new study on how cancer affects parents and their children.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Students travel to Nicaragua to encourage healthy lifestyles
Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service.
With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.The perils of financial reform
As Congress scrambles to finalize financial-reform legislation before the July 4 holiday, business professor and former Federal Reserve economist Rob Bliss warns that such sweeping reform could have serious unintended consequences. Categories: Research & Discovery
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute funds research by Wake Forest professor
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that it will fund nine research grants to improve the safety of red blood cell transfusions.Categories: Research & Discovery
Professors argue against budget cuts
As pressure for federal deficit-reduction grows, professors Donald Frey and David Coates argue that cutting federal and state budgets now — in the midst of the continuing recession and high unemployment — is “madness masquerading as sense.”
Categories: Research & Discovery
Ambassadors to the world
Twelve Wake Forest students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships — the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government — to teach English or conduct research abroad during the next year.
The students, all of whom graduated in May, were awarded scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Wake Forest has had 60 Fulbright scholars since 1992, including the 12 this year and 12 in 2008.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Grant Wood returns to Reynolda House
Following a six-month conservation treatment process, American artist Grant Wood’s masterpiece, “Spring Turning,” will once again be on display at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, starting Friday. A number of special events are planned this weekend.
Categories: Arts & Culture
Linda Nielsen: Finding dad’s softer side
With Father’s Day approaching, remember that your father cares as much as your mother, but he shows it in different ways, says professor Linda Nielsen, author of “Between Fathers & Daughters,” in The Wall Street Journal.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Reinemund: How to respond to a crisis
Dean of Business Steve Reinemund joined other business leaders to discuss how corporations and board members should respond to crisis, such as the BP oil spill, during an interview with Bloomberg News. Watch the podcast.
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