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Building a stronger classroom

September 22, 2010  |   Faculty, Graduate School, Staff, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

The Teaching and Learning Center, under the direction of Catherine Ross, provides workshops and other resources designed to help Wake Forest faculty keep pace with students and the changing ways they learn.

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Rising reputation

September 19, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories

The Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials has gained an international reputation for developing cutting-edge energy technologies. Director David Carroll leads research on solar cells, thermal electrics, battery technology and organic electronics.

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Meet the new faculty

September 15, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Provost, Top Stories

With the opening of the academic year, Wake Forest welcomes over 50 new faculty members — a group Provost Jill Tiefenthaler describes as rare in higher education, committed to focusing on teaching as well as research.

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The real India

September 10, 2010  |   Faculty, International, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Communication professor Ananda Mitra and his wife led a trip to India this summer for 11 Wake Forest students, allowing them to learn about the country from an insider’s point of view.

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Faculty assume new leadership roles

September 2, 2010  |   Faculty, Graduate School, Provost, Top Stories

A new associate provost and a number of academic deans in the College, Graduate School, School of Law and Schools of Business were appointed over the summer.

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Professor promotes community learning

August 29, 2010  |   Community, Faculty, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

Music professor Susan Borwick jettisoned some elements of the more traditional classroom setting and chose instead to turn the Winston-Salem community into a liberal arts learning environment to breathe new life into her course on American music.

A handbook for college parents

August 18, 2010  |   Exclude from Related Stories, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories

Retired business professor Helen Akinc explains in her new book, “The Praeger Handbook for College Parents,” how parents can help get their children through college.

University ranks 12th in teaching quality

August 16, 2010  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”

August 2010 Faculty Focus

August 1, 2010  |   Faculty

Susan Fahrbach’s research on bee brains; Sam Gladding teaches in Turkey; and Christian Miller, William Fleeson and Michael Furr receive a $3.67 million grant. More grants, research news and milestones in Faculty Focus. Staff News.

August 2010 Faculty Focus

August 1, 2010  |   Faculty

Biology Susan Fahrbach presented the invited keynote talk, “Plastic Bee Brains”, at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology in Toronto, Canada, in July. Business Andrea Seaton Kelton and Ya-wen Yang have received funding from PricewaterhouseCoopers for her proposal “The Effects […]