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Using the creative arts to heal the mind
April 4, 2011 | Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Role playing, writing or drawing what one is feeling can have significant therapeutic value. Counseling professor Samuel T. Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71) is one of the country’s leading authorities on how using the creative arts — music, dance, visual art, humor, drama and writing — can help people become more in tune with their emotions and feelings.
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Laughing and learning
March 31, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On April Fools’ Day, Cindy Gendrich’s students may have an advantage when planning practical jokes. In the theater professor’s first-year seminar, “Why Do People Laugh?” they have serious discussions about what causes giggles and guffaws.
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Reading aloud
March 30, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
As an undergraduate studying abroad at Oxford, Jessica Richard was introduced to tutorial-style grading. Now on the other side of the desk, she uses the “paper conference” as a way to help her students learn to become better writers.
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Sustainable food: surprising benefits
March 29, 2011 | Community, Faculty, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
With concern for healthier eating, community gardens are experiencing unprecedented growth. Experts offer insights into the benefits of sharing the work and the food.
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Professor, graduate earn service awards
March 28, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, School of Divinity, Top Stories
Wake Forest Professor of Church History Bill Leonard and Divinity School graduate Rev. Yvonne Hines (MDiv. ’04) each received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service at The Chronicle’s 26th annual Community Service Awards on March 19.
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Professor’s works to benefit collection
March 28, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
The late Bob Knott dedicated much of his time during his long career teaching art at Wake Forest to helping students build the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. Some of his artwork will be sold during this Friday’s Gallery Hop in downtown Winston-Salem to continue his passion for the Student Union collection.
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The curse of corruption in Africa
March 25, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, International, Speakers, Top Stories
Nuhu Yaqub, the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, will discuss how corruption in Africa has limited economic and political development in a continent rich with natural resources during a lecture on Monday. It’s part of a new series, “Winston-Salem and the World Scene,” sponsored by Wake Forest and other local colleges and universities.
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Finding the missing pieces
March 25, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Missing pieces in the biodiversity puzzle make it impossible to accurately predict the effects of climate change on most plant species in the Amazon and other tropical areas, according to a new study by Associate Professor of Biology Miles Silman. The scarcity of data on many species raises new questions for conservation biologists.
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‘Social capital’ and college counseling
March 23, 2011 | Admissions, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories
If college counseling for underrepresented students does not become a crucial part of education reform, then reform will not bear nearly enough fruit, writes Omari Simmons, an associate professor at the School of Law.
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Retired professor Paul Gross dies
March 23, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, Top Stories
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Paul Gross, who taught from 1959 until 1987, died March 17. For nearly 20 years, Gross was the coordinator of the University’s interdisciplinary honors program.
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