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Fourth-seeded Wake Forest advanced to the semifinal round of the ACC Field Hockey Championship by defeating Boston College, 4-3, on Thursday, and will play top-seeded Maryland on Friday.

Professional golfer and Wake Forest parent Lanny Wadkins (’72), who won five individual titles and was a three-time All-American at Wake Forest in the early 1970s, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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.

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.