WFU Awards and Recognitions Briefs
The WFU Recognitions and Awards brief celebrates milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest University.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The WFU Recognitions and Awards brief celebrates milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest University.NBA All-Star Game move: A high-profile hit for Charlotte and N.C.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the league's board of governors may soon make an announcement regarding Charlotte's status as the host city for the 2017 All-Star Game. Sports economist Todd McFall, assistant teaching professor of economics at Wake Forest University, is available to comment on the likelihood of a move and its effects.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
‘Beet’ the Competition: WFU expert talks Olympics and beet juice
Daniel Kim-Shapiro, director of the Translational Science Center and a professor of physics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., has conducted groundbreaking research about the health properties of beetroot juice for more than 10 years. He can discuss how the human body converts the chemical nitrite found in beets into nitric oxide to regulate blood flow, fueling athletes for peak performance.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Trump, Clinton and evangelical voters: WFU expert
Bill Leonard, James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity and an expert on contemporary American religious life, can comment on the role evangelical voters will play in the election and what religious issues are likely to matter most at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Running Mates and Rebellion: WFU expert available for comment on National political conventions
David Coates, Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, is an expert on U.S. domestic and foreign policy and writes extensively about liberal politics and elections. He can comment on the key issues in the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions. Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Social media’s role in breaking news: WFU expert available
At the intersection of social media, reality television, mass media and how people of color use and are represented by these mediums is where you’ll find Sherri Williams, a post-doctoral fellow who teaches in the Wake Forest University Communications department.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Healing after violence: WFU expert available
Within the past weeks, the country has experienced the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, the Dallas police shootings and a mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub. Anxiety in our nation and local communities is high.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Experts offer differing views on ‘Brexit’: Disaster vs. Long-term Benefit
Two WFU professors can offer different perspectives on Brexit today: one says "disaster of monumental proportions," other says there could be "long-term benefits."Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Parenting and happiness in 22 countries
To better understand why American parents report lower levels of happiness than non-parents, Wake Forest Professor of Sociology Robin Simon and her fellow researchers looked at adults with and without children in 22 other countries.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Chemistry major earns Beckman Scholar award
KyungMin Yoo, a rising junior who is majoring in chemistry, has been selected as Wake Forest’s fifth Beckman Scholar. As part of the Beckman Scholars Program, Yoo will spend two summers working on research related to wound-healing with chemistry professor Mark Welker. She has been working in Welker’s lab for a year.