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Weight loss and walking help seniors
January 24, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, School of Medicine, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Walking more and losing weight can improve mobility as much as 20 percent in older, obese adults with poor cardiovascular health, according to a new Wake Forest study. The results from the five-year study of 288 participants appear Jan. 24 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Two weeks in Vietnam
January 23, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Lia Flur (’11) traveled to Vietnam with 11 other students to rebuild a school, but the trip was about more than service. Flur said her life was altered by being able to live, eat and play as part of the community.
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Business students advance to nationals
January 21, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
A team of Schools of Business undergraduate students will advance to the national level of KPMG’s International Case Study Competition after winning the regional competition Jan. 21 in Atlanta. The students will travel to New York to compete against six other teams on Feb. 4th.
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‘Choose to Reuse’
January 20, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior Frannie Speer, along with the Office of Sustainability, wants to educate campus about the bottled water industry’s effects on health, pollution and climate change. She is launching the “Choose to Reuse” campaign with a screening of “Tapped,” an award-winning documentary.
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Retired professor McPherson dies
January 20, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Professor Emerita of English Dolly A. McPherson, the first African-American full-time female faculty member when she was hired in the 1970s, has died. She was 82.
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Hands on art
January 20, 2011 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, Events, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in professor Bernadine Barnes’s History of Prints class chose the theme and prints for the Los Suenos exhibition opening today in the campus art gallery. The display tells a short story about three Spanish artists: Goya, Miro and Picasso.
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Mobility in elderly assessed with iPad
January 19, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Health care professionals have not had an easy and effective way to assess the mobility of the elderly. To solve the problem, Wake Forest professors Tony Marsh and Jack Rejeski developed the Mobility Assessment Tool, which uses video animation.
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Race relations
January 18, 2011 | Community, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Lauren Arrington, a junior from Fayetteville, Ga., has been awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Young Dreamers’ Award by the City of Winston-Salem.
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Focus on community is recognized
January 18, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized Wake Forest as an institution with a tradition of focusing on community engagement. Wake Forest was among 115 U.S. colleges and universities selected by Carnegie.
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Proehl, Overby, Proctor make N.C. Hall
January 18, 2011 | Athletics, For Alumni, Recognition, Top Stories
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame will induct seven members in 2011, including three with Wake Forest ties: football player Ricky Proehl, announcer Gene Overby and trainer Al Proctor.
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