The problem of failing ‘non banks’
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
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
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
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
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
Welcome Class of 2013
The ‘evils’ of socialized medicine?
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Seven steps to a greener college move-in
With students at Wake Forest and at colleges nationwide moving to campus this week, Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, Wake Forest’s director of sustainability, offers suggestions for a “greener” move-in.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
Preslar tackles another health challenge
Len Preslar Jr. has taken on another health-care challenge for the University. Last week, he was named the executive director of the health-management programs for the Schools of Business.
Categories: University Announcements
Vocation Exploration
Eight students interested in careers serving others learned the challenges of helping the poor, the wrongly accused, and recent immigrants during internships at local nonprofit organizations this summer.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements