November 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
November 2009 Staff News
Categories: University Announcements
Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan
Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer. Categories: Research & Discovery
Improving banked blood
Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.Categories: Research & Discovery
Medical school to coordinate NIH grant
The School of Medicine will receive nearly $50 million from the National Institutes of Health as the coordinating center for a national study measuring the effects of lowering blood-pressure levels on cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
Categories: University Announcements
Skinner questionable for Ga. Tech game
Quarterback Riley Skinner is questionable for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech after suffering a mild concussion in the fourth quarter of Wake Forest’s 28-27 loss to Miami.
Categories: University Announcements
Wake Forest Theatre presents ‘Sonnets for an Old Century’
Senior Jennifer Malarkey, one of the actors in the Wake Forest Theatre production of “Sonnets for an Old Century,” talks about her role and her mentors in the theatre department.Categories: Arts & Culture
Deacons lose heartbreaker to Miami
Wake Forest led the entire game before Miami put together a late drive to score the winning touchdown with a minute to play for a 28-27 win at rainy BB&T Field Saturday.
Categories: Athletics, University Announcements
Tales of mystery and terror
Assistant Professor of English Melissa Jenkins (’01) is studying classic works of literature with her writing seminar students this fall to determine why we enjoy being scared.Categories: University Announcements
Ghost stories with a twist
The ghosts in Associate Professor of English John McNally’s book, “Ghosts of Chicago,” aren’t haunted by spirits, but instead “by deaths, by failed marriages, by lies they’ve told, by crimes committed.”Categories: University Announcements