Tips to get you going

Peter Brubaker offers ten tips to get moving toward a healthier lifestyle in the new year. Adding 30 minutes of daily physical activity should top your list of New Year’s resolutions, says professor Peter Brubaker, who offers 10 tips to get you moving toward a healthier lifestyle in 2010.

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Researching video games

Several students taking a first-year seminar have created a blog that includes reviews of video games and tips for parents, and insights into video-game play that they learned from their class research.

Researchers study the shelf life of blood

The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers across the country, including Wake Forest’s Daniel Kim-Shapiro, are studying whether old, donated blood heightens the risk of serious complications in some patients receiving blood transfusions.

Categories: Research & Discovery


Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’

Communication professor Ananda Mitra: New modes of communication, such as Facebook, influence our language and social interaction. The Facebook term “unfriend” is the 2009 Word of the Year. Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, discusses how technology influences language and social interaction.

Categories: Research & Discovery


Researching the iconic images of war

Images of the American soldier have changed over time, according to professor David Lubin, who is writing a book on the imagery of World War I. Images of the American soldier — captured by photographers on battlefields from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan — have changed over time, according to professor David Lubin, who is writing a book on the imagery of World War I.

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