Lorna G. Moore, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and president of the North Carolina Council of Graduate Schools, helped organize North Carolina's first Graduate Education Day.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
When students moved out of residence halls for summer break, they donated 108 carpets, 20 ironing boards, 11 chairs, one ladder and hundreds of other items through the DEACS Donate program.Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Carmen I. Canales will join Wake Forest as associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer on July 1, 2011. Canales comes to Wake Forest from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
NCAA President Mark Emmert has named Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest, to the Division I Bowl Licensing Task Force. The task force will examine the licensing procedures and other issues surrounding football bowl games.Categories: University Announcements
What’s new in the Piedmont Triad Research Park and downtown Winston-Salem will be presented by a panel of speakers June 9 in an event that is part of the 2011 Technology and Innovation Series.Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
Edward Abraham, M.D., the chair of the Department of Medicine and Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been named dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine.Categories: University Announcements
Graduation can bring a big adjustment for parents as some students will be living at home again. Sam Gladding, the chair of Wake Forest's Counseling Department, recommends structure and routine to avoid problems. [Video]Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Marianne Schubert, the director of the University Counseling Center, is the consummate counselor. She draws people out while letting herself fade into the background, holds deeply felt convictions without running them up the flagpole, and solves problems without revealing any confidences.Categories: University Announcements
From Wake Forest’s baseball coach donating his kidney to a player to the creation of an iPad app to assist children with verbal challenges to the discovery that beet juice is good for the brain, here are news highlights from this academic year.Categories: Arts & Culture, Athletics, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
U.S. job growth is driven by startup companies, according to a 2010 Kauffman Foundation study. But, jobseekers who dream of joining a new company hoping it will become the next Starbucks or Google should carefully consider the risks and rewards, says Polly Black, director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship.
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