October 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Ants vs. worms
Categories: Research & Discovery
New appointments
A number of administrative appointments were made over the summer, including most recently Ladd P. Flock, who was named director of Career Services.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Marketing vaccines
Three years after the FDA approved the drug Gardasil as a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), only one in four women have been vaccinated; assistant professor Michelle Steward may have found a reason why.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Memo to managers: Employees shine when they feel trusted
A recent study by business professor Holly Brower (’83) shows that managers need to be trustworthy leaders and be trusting of their employees to get their best effort, she writes.
Categories: Research & Discovery
September 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Caging a bird
A research team that includes four Wake Forest graduates has identified a promising approach to reducing mortality in a flu pandemic.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Dean Emeritus Henry Stroupe dies
Henry Stroupe (’35, MA ‘37), the founding dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and one of the last surviving faculty members to have taught on the Old Campus, died on Aug. 20 in Winston-Salem.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The ‘evils’ of socialized medicine?
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
A new foreign policy front?
Trips to Africa by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are signs that Africa is increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy, says Benin native and economics professor Sylvain Boko.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery