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Learning: No longer a textbook case
April 29, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Switching from rigid, linear textbooks to technology such as iPads alone won’t boost student performance – so a team of researchers at Wake Forest has turned the classroom upside down, allowing students to tailor each course to their own learning style.
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Living the American Dream
April 27, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.
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The lessons of Vietnam literature
April 26, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in Kathleen McClancy’s seminar class are completing their semester-long study of how books and films depicting the Vietnam War created the Vietnam mystique and the sway the war still holds over Americans, 36 years after the war ended.
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Mathematics’ Kirkman wins award
April 20, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Longtime mathematics professor Ellen Kirkman has received an award for outstanding service from the Mathematical Association of America. She received the MAA’s Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award for her long service to Wake Forest and to the MAA.
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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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Join the conversation
April 12, 2011 | Athletics, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Speakers, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.
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BioBook – eText evolved
April 8, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
What started as an idea for an iPad application by professors A. Daniel Johnson and Jed Macosko evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks called “BioBook.” The project will be funded by a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.
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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Protecting American Indian land rights
April 6, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
To chart a course of action for the protection of American Indian land rights, scholars, policy makers and community members will gather to consider issues such as environmental pollution and the protection of sacred sites.
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