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Creativity and education
April 20, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.”
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Family Business of the Year awards
April 19, 2011 | Alumni, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Top Stories
The Schools of Business Family Business Center and Business North Carolina will recognize the community contributions and achievements of four family-owned businesses — Baker Roofing, Stephenson Millwork, Salem Printing and Ruff Housing — during a special event on April 28.
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Benefits of inflation
April 19, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Rising food and gas prices make consumers worry about inflation, but Assistant Professor of Economics Sandeep Mazumder says they should be more concerned about deflation. He predicts little-to-no growth in the inflation rate for 2011-2013. [Video]
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Device can heat home, save money
April 18, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A new polymer-based solar-thermal device is the first to generate power from both heat and visible sunlight – an advance that could shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent, according to research done at Wake Forest.
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Cheyenne Woods wins ACC title
April 18, 2011 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest junior Cheyenne Woods fired a bogey-free 3-under 68 on Sunday to seal her first ACC individual championship. Woods finished the 54-hole event at 5-under par, which was seven shots better than Allie White of North Carolina.
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Songs without instruments
April 15, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For 19 years, Chi Rho, Wake Forest’s men’s a cappella group, has been entertaining the community — performing contemporary Christian, pop, rock and traditional hymns using only their voices.
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Conference addresses ‘pay for play’
April 15, 2011 | Alumni, Athletics, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
When it comes to inequities concerning race and college sports, you can talk about changing rules or paying players, but in the end, the most important reform is providing players – even the at-risk ones – with a useful education, according to experts convened at Wake Forest’s “Losing to Win” conference.
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Wake Forest to use WebEx solutions
April 15, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, University Announcement
Wake Forest will be the first university in the world to unite every member of the extended campus community with a site-wide license for Cisco WebEx Meeting Center. The tools will roll out campus-wide over the rest of the spring semester, and by the fall, WebEx tools will be fully accessible and supported.
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Sounds like imagination
April 15, 2011 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
Stowe Nelson (’08) provides the sounds behind “Eurydice,” a play directed by Brook Davis (‘90), which opens today in the Ring Theatre and runs through April 23.
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Rogers still a survivor
April 15, 2011 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
Though now in a wheelchair, former Wake Forest and NBA basketball star Rodney Rogers still has his familiar broad smile and an ability to engage an audience, as he did during an appearance on campus during the ‘Losing to Win” conference.
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