Grand Theft Auto, Jersey Shore, Kanye West — is anyone paying attention? Students in communication professor Marina Krcmar’s class are as they analyze video games, television programming and popular music, looking at the messages most young people ignore.
The University’s new Associate Vice President for Leadership Development, Evelyn Williams, envisions a program to teach students how to build and flex their leadership muscles — preparing them for careers in any field.Categories: Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that the use of Pfizer's ChantixTM, a smoking cessation drug, is associated with a 72 percent increased risk of a serious adverse cardiovascular event, such as heart attack or arrhythmia. Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
As the Fourth of July approaches, David Coates, professor of political science and Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies, suggests the ongoing financial crisis has put the American dream of independence beyond the reach of many of our nation’s citizens.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Yuan Li, a physics graduate student who conducts research at Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, has been awarded the “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad" by the China Scholarship Council. Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Baseball Coach Tom Walter recently spoke about character, recruiting and his kidney donation to player Kevin Jordan. Read excerpts from his remarks at the 2011 Summer Leadership Conference in Virginia on June 24.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Dr. Gary Miller, an associate professor at Wake Forest, praises the efficiency of weight loss via gastric bypass –- but he’s made it his mission to find a way to get the weight loss to stick. His team's research also has found the surgery yields health benefits beyond weight loss.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Golfer Natalie Sheary has been named the ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Sheary, a religion major who graduated in May, finished tied for eighth at the NCAA Championship and posted a 4.00 GPA this spring.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Each month, information on employment numbers, retail sales and consumer prices makes headline news, but what do these reports tell us about economic recovery? As a finance and economics professor, Sherry Jarrell teaches business school students the fundamentals about economics so they can develop their own opinions about what the data mean. Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Paul Pauca's 6-year old son, Victor, suffers from a rare genetic disorder. With a little help from his students, Pauca, a computer science professor, has created "VerbalVictor," a smartphone app that not only helps his son overcome any communication challenges he faces but one that is already helping other children and their parents as well. Read more from USA Today. Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements