Researchers from the health and exercise science department and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have received a major grant from the National Institute on Aging to conduct a six-year study to prevent mobility disability in older adults.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Whether their teams win or lose in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, one outcome is certain: coaches will follow predictable patterns in what they say after the game. John Llewellyn has studied those patterns for years and even has a name for it: coachtalk.
Categories: Athletics, Research & Discovery
Argumentation is a tough word for many people. It sounds like a confrontation might be involved, but argumentation is actually the term for the rational analysis of discussion, or persuasion, explains Alessandra Beasley Von Burg, director of the Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference to be held on campus March 19-21.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
The women’s basketball team will take on North Carolina A&T in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Gymnasium.
Categories: Athletics
Professor of Chemistry Robert Swofford, who joined the faculty in 1993, died on March 12 in Winston-Salem. He was 62.
Categories: Research & Discovery