WFU awards and recognitions briefs
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.Commencement story ideas from Wake Forest
Frederick J. Ryan Jr., publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post, will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address on Monday, May 20. The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. on Hearn Plaza.Categories: Happening at Wake
Seeking better detection for chronic malaria
In people with chronic malaria, certain metabolic systems in the blood change to support a long-term host-parasite relationship, a finding that is key to eventually developing better detection, treatment and eradication of the disease, according to research published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight.Categories: Research & Discovery
Jonathan L. Walton named Dean of WFU School of Divinity
Wake Forest University has appointed Jonathan L. Walton as Dean of the School of Divinity. Walton is currently at Harvard, where he serves as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the University’s Memorial Church. He is also Professor of Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Jane Aiken named Dean of WFU School of Law
Wake Forest University has chosen Jane Aiken to become the next Dean of the School of Law. Aiken comes to Wake Forest from Georgetown Law, where she has been a professor and administrator since 2007 and currently serves as the Blume Professor of Law.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
WFU’s Christina Soriano named Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow
Wake Forest Associate Provost for the Arts Christina Soriano has been named a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. Soriano is one of eight change-makers from across the nation who will begin a year-long fellowship at the Kennedy Center Arts Summit on Monday, April 29.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
USAID awards an additional $2.14 million to WFU rainforest research center
Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) has received $2.14 million in additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), supporting the expansion of the research center’s study of mercury pollution and reforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Bettina Love to speak on ‘Abolitionist Teaching’
Bettina Love, award-winning author and associate professor of educational theory and practice at the University of Georgia, will speak at Wake Forest University on Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in Pugh Auditorium. Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Steven Pinker to speak at WFU’s Second Annual Noesis Lecture
Renowned psychologist Steven Pinker will speak at Wake Forest University’s Eudaimonia Institute Second Annual Noesis Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.Categories: Happening at Wake
Hold the mustard: What makes spiders fussy eaters?
It might be one of nature’s most agile and calculating hunters, but the wolf spider won’t harm an insect that literally leaves a bad taste in its mouth, according to new research by a team of Wake Forest University sensory neuroscientists, including C.J. "Jake" Saunders.