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Travels to Turkey
November 3, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories
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 last summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar.
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Benefits of beet juice
November 3, 2010 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories
Wake Forest researchers have shown for the first time that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults – a finding that could hold great potential for combating the progression of dementia.
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Rescue in the Gulf
November 1, 2010 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill left many feeling adrift about how to respond, but not Brian Yablonski (‘89). He mobilized forces to defend Florida’s coast and marine life.
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Paperless debate
November 1, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, National, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest’s nationally competitive debate team moved from paper evidence files to digital this year, allowing it to become the first top-tier debate team in the country to go “open source” and share all its evidence and arguments online.
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Scientists grow miniature liver
November 1, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories
Researchers at Wake Forest’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have grown a miniature liver using human cells. Although it is too small to work for a human, the hope is to grow larger livers or to use them for testing.
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Examining historical Muslim societies
November 1, 2010 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories
A new book by Assistant Professor of History Charles L. Wilkins offers a historical perspective that shows Muslim societies as complex and not solely focused on warmaking.
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Mixing it up
November 1, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Junior Brandon Turner’s research integrates multiple fields and comes under the mentoring eye of Jacque Fetrow, dean of the college. He received the 2010-2011 American Physical Society Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors.
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Project Pumpkin magic
October 29, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students turned Hearn Plaza into Hogwarts for this year’s Harry Potter-themed Project Pumpkin. The 22nd annual Halloween Festival brought more than 1,100 Winston-Salem area children from local agencies and organizations to campus for an afternoon of scary and not-so-scary fun.
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A top value among private schools
October 28, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Wake Forest University 21st on its 2010 list of the best values in private universities.
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Law student argues in appeals court
October 27, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Megan Curran, a third-year law student, had a chance to argue before the N.C. Court of Appeals when judges heard arguments in two cases at Worrell Professional Center, the home of the School of Law.
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