College of the overwhelmed
Today’s college students bring higher expectations and greater anxiety than their parents faced when they started college, says the counseling center’s Johnne Armentrout.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Dean Blake Morant remembers Sen. Edward Kennedy
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
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
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’
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
