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The green-conscious consumer

April 22, 2011

Are we any closer to finding strategies for combining sustainable principles with everyday decision-making? Starting with simple changes is the first step to tackling more complex challenges.

Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability

Wake Forest's one-year master’s of arts in management, which requires no previous work experience and aims to help students apply their liberal arts and sciences “passion” to business, is on the leading edge of a national movement.

Categories: University Announcements

Godfrey leads tornado relief drive

April 21, 2011

Senior football player Dennis Godfrey, a native of Sanford, N.C., has helped mobilize the campus to collect food and clothing to donate to the state's tornado victims. Items can be donated at 5 p.m. today in front of Wait Chapel. Godfrey and friends will deliver the items Friday.

Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements

Why reading alone doesn’t work for learning and retaining new concepts

April 20, 2011

A typical textbook has chapters and sections that are too long, overtaxing readers’ attention. Many do little to engage students’ interest; this problem has been reported both for secondary students and at the college level.

Categories: University Announcements

Research principles support new learning concept

April 20, 2011

“How People Learn,” a watershed National Research Council study, sets out six principles of learning that can guide successes in the classroom. A new research project at Wake Forest University uses these principles to create a digital tool that allows students to choose how they learn.

Categories: University Announcements