Baseball Coach Tom Walter recently spoke about character, recruiting and his kidney donation to player Kevin Jordan. Read excerpts from his remarks at the 2011 Summer Leadership Conference in Virginia on June 24.
Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
In a recent U.S. News and World Report article, Director of Admissions Martha Allman and professor Ananda Mitra explore how “text-speak” or “textese” have impacted the way high school students and college applicants communicate.
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Research & Discovery
Dr. Gary Miller, an associate professor at Wake Forest, praises the efficiency of weight loss via gastric bypass –- but he’s made it his mission to find a way to get the weight loss to stick. His team's research also has found the surgery yields health benefits beyond weight loss.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Golfer Natalie Sheary has been named the ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Sheary, a religion major who graduated in May, finished tied for eighth at the NCAA Championship and posted a 4.00 GPA this spring.
Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Each month, information on employment numbers, retail sales and consumer prices makes headline news, but what do these reports tell us about economic recovery? As a finance and economics professor, Sherry Jarrell teaches business school students the fundamentals about economics so they can develop their own opinions about what the data mean.
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