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.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Biology Professor Gloria K. Muday’s research could lead to better roots and a stronger crop of summer-ripe tomatoes.
Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
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.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
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.”
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.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
A new technique developed by several Wake Forest physics professors could slash years off the time it takes to develop drugs, bringing vital new treatments to patients much more quickly.
Categories: Research & Discovery