Gail R. O'Day, a respected New Testament scholar and currently senior associate dean at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Associate Professor Emeritus Leon P. Cook Jr., who taught accounting from 1957 until retiring in 1993, died on April 26 in Winston-Salem.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Cindy Gendrich is one of those people who can't stop herself from laughing, sometimes too loudly and at inappropriate times. A professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Gendrich has received a $24,800 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her proposal, “Why do people laugh?”, to study the complexities of humor and to develop a first-year seminar.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
A study by law professor Ahmed Taha and other researchers has found that advertisements touting the high past returns of mutual funds are misleading investors.
Categories: Research & Discovery
William Louis Poteat, seventh president of Wake Forest College from 1905-1927, is revered as a larger-than-life historical figure that championed the teaching of evolution and freedom of inquiry. But in an out-of-the-way lab in Winston Hall is evidence that Poteat, a biologist, was as interested in preserving the past as he was in charting the future.
Categories: Research & Discovery
With the UK General Election now announced for May 6, some background information on what is likely to unfold might be of general interest.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
When communication professor Ananda Mitra set out to write about the complex problems and issues generated by the widespread adoption of digital technology, he knew he had taken on a big job. So big, it led him to write 10 books simultaneously.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has formed the first of what it believes will be a long list of international partnerships aimed at accelerating the pace of developing therapies for patients, says Dr. Anthony Atala, the director of institute.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Wake Forest has received the first patent for a new solar-cell technology that can double the energy production of today’s flat cells at a fraction of the cost.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jason Parsley has received an award for distinguished teaching by a faculty member in the early stage of his or her teaching career.
Categories: Research & Discovery