Students travel to Nicaragua to encourage healthy lifestyles

Students collect plants from La Chureca in Managua (the city dump) to be replanted as part of a beautification project at a local school. Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service. With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.

Ambassadors to the world

Twelve Wake Forest students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships — the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government — to teach English or conduct research abroad during the next year. The students, all of whom graduated in May, were awarded scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Wake Forest has had 60 Fulbright scholars since 1992, including the 12 this year and 12 in 2008.

Understanding the Middle East

Michaelle Browers has spent half her academic career in the Middle East. An associate professor in the political science department, she’s conducted research in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Morocco. She's fluent in Arabic, yet one of the first things she does when she prepares for a trip is to hire a language tutor. The language is complex, but so is her area of expertise. And language is the vehicle that led to two decades of study in the politics and culture of the Middle East.

Congress fails to grasp financial issues

Congress has largely ignored the underlying reasons for the financial crisis, writes professor Rob Bliss in US Banker. “The unwillingness to examine these broader causes means that lessons will be unlearned and another crisis more likely.”

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