The hour is late, but there is still enough time to launch a true Green Revolution to solve the world's greatest problems that all trace their causes to energy, said best-selling author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in a speech at Wake Forest Wednesday night.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability
Nearly 75 million people read a romance novel in 2008, 90 percent of them women. Harlequin, the largest publisher of romance novels, publishes 120 titles a month in 25 languages.
Scholars have recently started to examine this popular, but much maligned genre, and how it reflects the changing roles of women in society.
Categories: Research & Discovery
The CEOs of one of the country's largest utilities and one of the largest suppliers of natural gas agreed that America needs a bridge to cleaner sources of energy, but disagreed on what that bridge should be, during the opening session of Wake Forest's energy conference on Wednesday.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability
It's time again for Americans to stand up and be counted. In mid-March, census forms will be mailed or delivered to households across the country. Associate Professor of Sociology Ana Wahl, who studies housing patterns and racial integration in neighborhoods, explains the importance of the census, why fewer people may complete this year's survey, and how she uses census data in her research and teaching.
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery
Wake Forest will celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year and the "Year of the Tiger" with several events on campus on Feb. 13.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Global Wake Forest
In response to the continuing disaster in Haiti, Wake Forest is making it more convenient for faculty and staff to support relief efforts.
Categories: Community Impact, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
In Santarem, one of the poorest regions of Brazil, children go to school for only half the day; the rest of the day, many have no place to go but the streets. Wake Forest students spent two weeks over winter break helping construct a community center to give these children a safe place.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Ads for Sunday’s Super Bowl cost as much as $3 million for every 30-second spot, but the exposure is worth the expense, says marketing professor Sheri Bridges, an expert on branding and advertising.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Athletics
Some of the world's most gifted marketing students will be at the top of their game as they compete for sizable awards and prestige in the Schools of Business 2010 Marketing Summit, a premier annual case competition to be held Thursday, Feb. 4 through Saturday, Feb. 6.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Assistant Professor of History Stephen Vella died in New York on January 30 after an illness. He was 34.
Categories: Research & Discovery