Erik Lie-Nielsen, a 35-year-old doctor and faculty member at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, was killed Friday morning when he crashed during a bicycle race that was part of the Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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
Bernardo Diaz (’07) has been named one of 40 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows for 2011. Fellows are selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to prepare for careers in the United States foreign service corps.Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
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
Wake Forest has been selected to The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2010. The award is designed to recognize the depth and breadth of activities that schools employ to successfully partner with communities. Wake Forest has been honored each year since the awards began in 2006.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
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
Cheyenne Woods, a rising senior and the niece of Tiger Woods, shot a 2-under 69 to finish first in stroke-play qualifying at the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. Woods, who won the ACC championship last month, was the only player to break par. Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
Under conductor Gerard Schwarz’s direction, organist Susan Bates and the Eastern Festival Orchestra will premiere Wake Forest composer-in-residence Dan Locklair’s “Concerto for Organ and Orchestra” on Wednesday, June 29.Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Research & Discovery