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Dean Blake Morant remembers Sen. Edward Kennedy

August 28, 2009

School of Law Dean Blake Morant remembers a personal connection to Senator Ted Kennedy, and U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (’78) reflects on her first year in the Senate and her late colleague’s legacy.

Categories: University Announcements

Money trouble? Talk to the kids

August 26, 2009

In these difficult economic times, it’s important to talk to your children about money and assure them that you have everything under control — but don’t make promises you can’t keep, says psychology professor Christy Buchanan in USA Today.

Categories: University Announcements

Class ring resurfaces after 52 years

August 26, 2009

After losing his law school class ring in an airport in Gander, Newfoundland, more than 50 years ago, Lloyd Rector (JD ’53) never thought he’d see it again — until someone in Gander tracked him down. Read the story from NBC News in Chicago.

Categories: Community Impact

The problem of failing ‘non banks’

August 25, 2009

New regulations for failing large financial firms that technically are not banks face a host of problems, says business professor Robert Bliss in The Economist.

Categories: University Announcements

Caging a bird

August 24, 2009

Carson Moseley (’09) and other graduates uncover a possible flu treatment.

A research team that includes four Wake Forest graduates has identified a promising approach to reducing mortality in a flu pandemic.

Categories: Research & Discovery

N.C. unemployment rate levels off

August 24, 2009

There are signs that North Carolina’s unemployment rate may have leveled off, but it could be months before the employment rate improves, says economics professor Robert Whaples.

Categories: Community Impact

New director promotes sustainability

August 23, 2009

As the new sustainability director, Dedee DeLongpre Johnston is promoting behavioral changes among students, faculty and staff to advance sustainability in all areas of the University.

Categories: Environment & Sustainability, University Announcements

Dean Emeritus Henry Stroupe dies

August 21, 2009

Henry and Elizabeth Stroupe in front of their Faculty Drive home in 2006.

Henry Stroupe (’35, MA ‘37), the founding dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and one of the last surviving faculty members to have taught on the Old Campus, died on Aug. 20 in Winston-Salem.

Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements