Rethinking admissions
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Research & Discovery
Weight loss + exercise helps knees
New research by professor Steve Messier showing that weight loss combined with exercise reduces pain and improves mobility in people with knee osteoarthritis is receiving national news coverage.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Fascinated with 11/11/11?
You might think there’s some special significance behind 11/11/11. But is there really? When the calendar and its numbers align, physics professor Eric Carlson says some people try to ascribe some sort of mystical significance. But they would be wrong.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Ethics in research
This summer, incoming first-year students to Wake Forest University completed an academic project involving writings by Dr. James Jones on bioethics, medical research, and ethics. Now Jones, the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, comes to campus all week for the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society’s conference.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
An opportunity of a lifetime
Twelve Wake Forest choral students will join the Munich Symphony Orchestra and The Gloriae dei Cantores choir in performing Mozart’s 'Requiem' during Thursday's Secrest Artist Series event.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
First-year students take the stage
Wake Forest University theatre recently completed a production of John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine.” What made the fall performance surprising? Of the 23 roles available, 11 of them were filled by first-year students.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Relishing test-optional admissions
When Emily English applied to Wake Forest, she had no idea of the impact that sociology professor Joseph Soares already had made on her life. Soares' research pushed the University toward its test-optional admissions process, which has attracted many students like English. Soares now has a new book detailing the negative impact of standardized tests.History and health care
As part of an innovative bioethics seminar, nine Wake Forest graduate students in the Master of Arts in Bioethics Program recently performed “The Burial Society” — a case study representing the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis.Categories: Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Helping ease Halloween fears
To make sure Halloween festivities are full of fun, not fear, Professor of Psychology Deborah Best suggests that parents and volunteers try to experience the holiday through children’s eyes.Categories: Research & Discovery
WFU and N.C. State form partnership
Wake Forest and N.C. State have formed a partnership in the hope of advancing regenerative-medicine treatments for humans and animals. The groups will exchange students and faculty, collaborate on research projects and publications and pool resources.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements