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Wake Forest Connects
June 27, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories
Politicians aren’t the only ones in Washington, D.C. emphasizing the important intersection between jobs and higher education. The Offices of Personal and Career Development and Alumni Relations hosted Wake Forest Connects, an event gathering more than 130 members of the Wake Forest community in the D.C. metro area.
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Can a video game cure cancer?
June 26, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Anqi Zou (’12) never thought she would thank video gamers for showing her the way to exciting discoveries in molecular biology. But here she is, acknowledging that the technology she uses to show the inner workings of cells was originally perfected to create realistic images on gaming screens worldwide.
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Hatch featured in Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, President, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Author and religious scholar Stephen Prothero named Wake Forest University President Nathan O. Hatch’s “The Democratization of American Christianity” one of the five best books on religion and politics in the Wall Street Journal.
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Spotlight on science
June 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A look at the top 10 Wake Forest science stories of the 2011-2012 academic year shows a broad range of topics, including thermoelectric fabric, birds in the Galapagos, exercise and diabetics, using video game technology to fight cancer, cyber security, e-textbooks, regenerative medicine and more.
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Can beliefs make us brave?
June 20, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Christian Miller, associate professor of philosophy and director of The Character Project, explores the beliefs that help us act more virtuously for the re-launch of the high profile website developed by The John Templeton Foundation called Big Questions Online.
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New insight into the Amazon
June 19, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The Western Amazon is an area of great biodiversity. But what was it like before European settlers arrived? “The pendulum swung from views that ‘people were nowhere’ to ‘people were everywhere,’ and we’ve shown they were both wrong,” said Miles Silman, director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and professor of biology.
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WFU’s Simpson wins U.S. Open
June 17, 2012 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Webb Simpson (’08) has won the U.S. Open for his first major golf title. The celebration had a Demon Deacon feel, as Simpson shared it with his wife, Dowd (’07), and thanked WFU great Arnold Palmer for providing the scholarship that allowed him to play golf at Wake Forest.
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‘Bat whisperer’ featured on National Geographic Channel
June 15, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, National, Research, Student, Top Stories
For four years, graduate student Aaron Corcoran has studied how tiger moths use sonar-jamming to evade bats. With Corcoran’s help, the event has been captured on camera for National Geographic Television’s “Untamed Americas.” The program will be shown again at 9 p.m., Saturday, June 16.
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Wake Forest celebrates Father’s Day
June 15, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
With so many assumptions and stereotypes surrounding Father’s Day, it is easy to lose touch with the meaning behind the holiday. Members of the Wake Forest community remind us why we honor our fathers.
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Schools of Business wins award
June 14, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Business, Top Stories
The Schools of Business won the Connected Campus Award at the AMX Innovation Awards ceremony. The awards recognize innovative higher education institutions and best practices of the use of technology. AMX will provide school with $50,000 worth of new technology.
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