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Waddill Award recognizes exemplary teachers

September 24, 2010  |   Alumni, For Alumni, Top Stories

Two Wake Forest alumni — Amy Talley (pictured) and Melanie Huynh-Duc — have been named winners of this year’s Marcellus Waddill Excellence in Teaching Award.

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Dean appears on CNBC forum

September 23, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories

Dean of Business Steve Reinemund, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, appeared live on CNBC television as part of the coverage of the “Investing in America” town hall event with President Barrack Obama.

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Kairoff gets second NEH grant

September 23, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, Humanities, Research, Top Stories

Professor of English Claudia Kairoff and a research colleague have received a second major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to edit the works of the early 18th century British poet Anne Finch.

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Rising reputation

September 19, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories

The Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials has gained an international reputation for developing cutting-edge energy technologies. Director David Carroll leads research on solar cells, thermal electrics, battery technology and organic electronics.

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Heading South

September 19, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, International, Provost, Top Stories

Wake Forest has established a semester-long study abroad program in South America. The first group of 10 students will spend the 2011 spring semester in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile.

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Ready, set, go!

September 16, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Seniors shouldn’t wait to develop a strategy for finding a job at graduation. Ladd Flock, the director of career services, offers 10 steps that students should take this fall.

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Meet the new faculty

September 15, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Provost, Top Stories

With the opening of the academic year, Wake Forest welcomes over 50 new faculty members — a group Provost Jill Tiefenthaler describes as rare in higher education, committed to focusing on teaching as well as research.

Former registrar Margaret Perry dies

September 7, 2010  |   For Alumni, Staff

Margaret Ruthven Perry (’50), who worked in the Registrar’s Office for 50 years before retiring in 1998, died on Monday. Her funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Mrs. Perry joined the registrar’s office as an assistant registrar in 1947 and was […]

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Reflections on Concert Choir’s Italy tour

September 7, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student

Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick remembers the Concert Choir’s international performance tour to Rome, Anzio and Assisi.

Tony Bennett concert tickets available

September 7, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Student

Celebrated singer Tony Bennett will be performing in Winston-Salem this Friday, September 10, at 8 p.m. at the Stevens Center. Tickets will be available to students 30 minutes before the concert begins for only $35 each (students must show their student ID).