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Several professors and students will give their personal reflections on the inauguration of President Barack Obama during a program in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library following the inauguration on Tuesday. Are you going to the inauguration? Share your comments and photographs with Window on Wake Forest.

Research on the “evolutionary warfare” between bats and moths conducted by biology graduate student Aaron Corcoran, working with Professor of Biology Bill Conner, is featured in this month’s ScienceNews magazine.

Dr. Frank Torti, the chief cancer researcher at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will become acting head of the Food and Drug Administration during the presidential transition period.

Law Professors Christine Coughlin and Kate Mewhinney will lead the next alumni Lifelong Learning program on Feb. 28. They will discuss the importance of planning ahead for successful aging.

In the midst of the current economic slowdown, “have universities prepared graduates for the soul-searching that follows failure?” No, writes President Nathan O. Hatch. But “the good news is that students, like those at Wake Forest, … want to connect to something larger. They want to do good, and do well, as they lead an examined and purposeful life.”