With the opening of the academic year, Wake Forest welcomes over 50 new faculty members — a group Provost Jill Tiefenthaler describes as rare in higher education, committed to focusing on teaching as well as research.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Communication professor Ananda Mitra and his wife led a trip to India this summer for 11 Wake Forest students, allowing them to learn about the country from an insider's point of view.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A new associate provost and a number of academic deans in the College, Graduate School, School of Law and Schools of Business were appointed over the summer.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Music professor Susan Borwick jettisoned some elements of the more traditional classroom setting and chose instead to turn the Winston-Salem community into a liberal arts learning environment to breathe new life into her course on American music.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
Categories: Research & Discovery
aBecause understanding character lies at the heart of human identity, philosophers, psychologists and theologians have long wrestled with how to define good character and how to improve character.
Wake Forest professors Christian Miller (philosophy), William F. Fleeson (psychology) and Michael R. Furr (psychology) have been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there this summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements