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Former Deacon wins PGA tourney
August 22, 2011 | Alumni, Athletics, Top Stories
Former Wake Forest All-American Webb Simpson shot a bogey-free final round 67 at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday to claim his first PGA Tour victory. Simpson shot rounds of 66-65-64-67 to finish at 18-under par.
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Retail marketing center launched
August 22, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Top Stories
The Schools of Business announced the unveiling of its new Center for Value Delivery Innovation, a first-of-its-kind retail marketing collaboration, at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Executive Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Aug. 20.
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Social media and safety
August 18, 2011 | Community, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
The Wake Forest police department has taken the lead in combining social media and safety — developing a public safety mobility app and using Twitter to reach the community. The department’s efforts have been recognized by the International Association for Chiefs of Police.
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Teachers win $20,000 Waddill Award
August 17, 2011 | For Alumni, Top Stories, University Announcement, Wake Forest College
Two teachers — an elementary school teacher in Kernersville and a high school math teacher in Clemmons — have been named winners of Wake Forest University’s 2011 Marcellus Waddill Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Mentoring in Vietnam
August 16, 2011 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Soccer player Doug Ryan spent his summer in Vietnam, mentoring rising ninth graders on a variety of academic subjects and life skills. He also helped teach them four sports through the Coach for College program. Read more and see a slideshow from his service trip.
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Peace through education
August 15, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories
Wake Foresters Phillips and Leslie McLean Bragg have teamed with James Lubo Mijak, a Lost Boy of Sudan, around the goal of building permanent primary schools in southern Sudan. Once a dream, the Raising Sudan project is becoming a reality.
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Need for police reforms
August 15, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories
Jurors recently convicted five police officers accused of civil rights violations and obstruction of justice in New Orleans. Law professor Kami Simmons writes in the Huffington Post that the situation exposed institutional deficiencies that encourage police misconduct and corruption.
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Child abuse in birds
August 12, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild. The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are abused when they are young often grow up to be abusers.
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Tracing the roots of ‘The Dream’
August 11, 2011 | Faculty, National, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest student William Murphy (’13) and Associate Professor of Communication John Llewellyn recently discovered that the most significant American speech in recent history was based on a teenage dream – one Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first envisioned and articulated as a 15-year-old schoolboy in the Jim Crow South.
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Childress named assistant to AD
August 10, 2011 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
ACC basketball legend Randolph Childress has returned to Wake Forest as an assistant to the director of athletics, focusing on compliance, fundraising and the mentoring of student athletes.
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