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Will President Obama’s new education initiative pass the test?

November 5, 2009

Education professor Scott Baker says the Obama administration's Race to the Top plan relies too heavily on standardized testing and isn't likely to produce better results in the nation's classrooms.

Will the Obama administration’s $4.3 billion Race to the Top Fund transform America’s schools? Not likely, says Associate Professor of Education Scott Baker.

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Field hockey advances in ACC tourney

November 5, 2009

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.

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Wadkins inducted into golf hall of fame

November 3, 2009

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.

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A ‘Conversation With …’ series celebrates 10 years

November 2, 2009

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Daniel Vandergriff argues in Fourth Circuit

November 2, 2009

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November 2009 Faculty Focus

November 1, 2009

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November 2009 Staff News

November 1, 2009

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Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan

November 1, 2009

Junior Katherine Morgan (with Professor of Music Teresa Radomski) used a Richter Scholarship to study 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

November 1, 2009

Physics professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro is studying how nitric oxide in blood affects the quality of stored blood and how it can be altered to make blood transfusions safer.

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

November 1, 2009

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.

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Will President Obama’s new education initiative pass the test?

Field hockey advances in ACC tourney

Wadkins inducted into golf hall of fame

A ‘Conversation With …’ series celebrates 10 years

Daniel Vandergriff argues in Fourth Circuit

November 2009 Faculty Focus

November 2009 Staff News

Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan

Improving banked blood

Medical school to coordinate NIH grant

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