Grand Theft Auto, Jersey Shore, Kanye West — is anyone paying attention? Students in communication professor Marina Krcmar’s class are as they analyze video games, television programming and popular music, looking at the messages most young people ignore.
The University’s new Associate Vice President for Leadership Development, Evelyn Williams, envisions a program to teach students how to build and flex their leadership muscles — preparing them for careers in any field.
Categories: Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
Bernardo Diaz (’07) has been named one of 40 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows for 2011. Fellows are selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to prepare for careers in the United States foreign service corps.
Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that the use of Pfizer's ChantixTM, a smoking cessation drug, is associated with a 72 percent increased risk of a serious adverse cardiovascular event, such as heart attack or arrhythmia.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest has been selected to The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2010. The award is designed to recognize the depth and breadth of activities that schools employ to successfully partner with communities. Wake Forest has been honored each year since the awards began in 2006.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate