University Marketing and Communications

Senior football player Dennis Godfrey, a native of Sanford, N.C., has helped mobilize the campus to collect food and clothing to donate to the state's tornado victims. Items can be donated at 5 p.m. today in front of Wait Chapel. Godfrey and friends will deliver the items Friday.

A typical textbook has chapters and sections that are too long, overtaxing readers’ attention. Many do little to engage students’ interest; this problem has been reported both for secondary students and at the college level.

“How People Learn,” a watershed National Research Council study, sets out six principles of learning that can guide successes in the classroom. A new research project at Wake Forest University uses these principles to create a digital tool that allows students to choose how they learn.

Longtime mathematics professor Ellen Kirkman has received an award for outstanding service from the Mathematical Association of America. She received the MAA's Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award for her long service to Wake Forest and to the MAA.

Creativity studies is a new area of research that is becoming increasingly influential in social, political and business realms. The Program for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship recently sponsored a conference titled "Teaching Creativity in Higher Education."