Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a life trustee who served as a U.S. Ambassador, made a $2 million gift to support student scholarships and financial aid at the Wake Forest School of Divinity.
Categories: Transformative Giving, University Announcements
Who knew a fish out of water could be so coordinated? Biologist Miriam Ashley-Ross is on a team of researchers who discovered several species of fish can make impressive leaps on land that shed light on evolutionary questions.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
If only we could blame drought and poverty for the famine in the Horn of Africa that would be so simple, says Sarah Lischer, associate professor of political science who studies humanitarian aid and refugees in Africa. In the Huffington Post, Lischer explains why Western aid won’t save Somalia.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there this summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Professor Peter Brunette, a well-known film historian, author and critic, died unexpectedly June 16 while attending the Taormina Film Festival in Italy. Brunette, who was 66, died of an apparent heart attack. He is survived by a sister, Rose Dean.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery