Media Advisory: Listen carefully for ‘Coach Talk’ during March Madness
March 8, 2012 | Media Advisory
Whether they are being humble in victory or attributing their team’s poor performance to fate, college basketball coaches follow predictable patterns in their post-game comments, according to associate professor of communications John Llewellyn. He studied 24 years worth of Division I men’s college […]
Media Advisory: No fair! Top-seeded NCAA tournament teams favored by switch to pod system
March 8, 2012 | Media Advisory
Since adopting the pod system in 2002, the NCAA basketball tournament organizers have, more often than not, chosen to give first-round assignments that favor top-seeded teams — helping these more popular teams advance to the second and third rounds. “Given the choice […]
Media Advisory: New ‘Building Dashboard’ helps track energy use
March 6, 2012 | Media Advisory
Counting kilowatt-hours and gallons of water used on the Wake Forest University campus has just gotten easier with the university’s adoption of the new Building Dashboard. Now, everyone on campus can help monitor energy use and see the impact of energy reduction efforts. Later […]
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University offers Super Tuesday commenters
March 6, 2012 | Media Advisory
*Note to media, clicking on each expert’s name will also take you to their expert profile with more information about his background and research. Please contact Stephanie Skordas to arrange media interviews. John Dinan An expert on state politics, […]
Media Advisory: Words Awake! celebrates Wake Forest writers and writing
March 5, 2012 | Media Advisory
More than 40 alumni who are novelists, biographers, journalists, screenwriters, poets and hip-hop artists return to Wake Forest University this month to share their experience as professional writers during a three-day celebration of writers and writing. Words Awake! will demonstrate the power of writing […]
Media Advisory: Growth capital for the family business
March 5, 2012 | Media Advisory
The Wake Forest Family Business Center—Charlotte Metro is hosting a forum on topics related to growth capital. “Types of Growth Capital for the Family Business” will be held on March 15 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Whitehead Conference Center, 5901 Sardis Rd., in […]
Media Advisory: The Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting comes to the Triad
March 2, 2012 | Media Advisory
Three Triad schools, intent on providing a global perspective to journalism education on their campuses, have teamed up to join the Campus Consortium of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports the cause of international reporting. The schools are Wake […]
Media Advisory: Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews to speak at WFU on March 7
February 28, 2012 | Media Advisory
Note to media: Jay Mathews is available for pre-interviews by phone, as are WFU admissions staff, college students with IB diplomas, and instructors/administrators from IB school systems. Washington Post education columnist and author Jay Mathews will speak in Wait Chapel on Wednesday, March 7, […]
Media Advisory: Sociologists from around the state gather to discuss N.C. economy
February 23, 2012 | Media Advisory
Sociologists from around the state will gather Friday, Feb. 24, to address the changing N.C. economy at the annual meeting of the N.C. Sociological Association. In a 9:45 a.m. keynote address, Ian Taplin, a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University who studies work and […]
Media Advisory: Founder of Interfaith Youth Core to speak March 1
February 15, 2012 | Media Advisory
Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based organization building the global interfaith youth movement, will speak at Wake Forest University March 1. Named one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009 by U.S. News & World Report, Patel will […]
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