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New appointments

September 16, 2009

A number of administrative appointments were made over the summer, including most recently Ladd P. Flock, who was named director of Career Services.

Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements

WFU School of Law hosts ‘Sports Update: Title IX’

September 15, 2009

Experts in law and athletics — including the School of Law’s Timothy Davis, one of the country’s best known sports law scholars — will address the impact of Title IX on athletics during a forum at the School of Law.

Categories: University Announcements

Marketing vaccines

September 15, 2009

Research by assistant professor Michelle Steward suggests that Merck may be taking the wrong approach to market the controversial Gardasil vaccine to young women.

Three years after the FDA approved the drug Gardasil as a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), only one in four women have been vaccinated; assistant professor Michelle Steward may have found a reason why.

Categories: Research & Discovery

The financial meltdown

September 15, 2009

A year after last fall's financial meltdown, professor Rob Bliss says, "The sense of (financial) panic is gone, (but) government intervention has transferred a great deal of the risks to the taxpayers."

Categories: University Announcements

Mary Dalton’s Top 10 teacher TV shows

September 14, 2009

With students and teachers back in school and a new television season beginning soon, professor Mary Dalton takes a look at her top 10 teacher TV shows and what they say about society and education.

Categories: Arts & Culture

Accounting program highly ranked

September 13, 2009

Wake Forest’s undergraduate accounting program moved up four spots to 17th in the nation in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s guide to “America’s Best Colleges.”

Categories: University Announcements

Deacons rally for 24-17 win

September 12, 2009

Senior Riley Skinner hit redshirt freshman Lovell Jackson with a long pass to set up the winning touchdown with two seconds left, as Wake Forest scored 21 unanswered points and defeated Stanford, 24-17, at BB&T Field Saturday afternoon.

Categories: Athletics, University Announcements

Field hockey falls in overtime

September 11, 2009

The fourth-ranked field hockey team fell to third-ranked Virginia in overtime 3-2 on Sunday afternoon at Virginia. Also on Sunday, the women’s golf team finished ninth at the Lady Tar Heel Invitational.

Categories: University Announcements