Students, faculty and alumni were honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program featured seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash presenting their senior orations.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has formed a veterinary regenerative center with the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Regenerative medicine is devoted to engineering replacement tissues and organs in the laboratory, or using cell therapies to restore organ and tissue function.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Walking more and losing weight can improve mobility as much as 20 percent in older, obese adults with poor cardiovascular health, according to a new Wake Forest study. The results from the five-year study of 288 participants appear Jan. 24 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
School of Medicine students, along with the Northwest Area Health Education Center, will hold the 12th annual “Share the Health” fair on Jan. 15 at Marketplace Mall. Last year, 200 student volunteers participated in the fair and served more than 650 community members.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
School of Law Professor Mark Hall, who is one of the nation’s leading scholars in health-care law and policy, was quoted about the health-care reform law this week in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national sources.Categories: University Announcements
Orthopaedic researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have been awarded a $2.24 million four-year grant from the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) to study the use of keratin gel in the regeneration of damaged peripheral nerves, those in the hands, arms and feet.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Up to 65 percent of runners sustain an overuse injury each year. Wake Forest researchers, funded by a $600,000 grant from the U. S. Army, plan to find out why.Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Identifying and diagnosing sports concussions quicker is at the heart of a collaborative effort between the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics and Toyota Motor Corp.Categories: Athletics, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Alcoholic energy drinks are under fire after reports of unsafe behaviors, especially among college students. These actions are encouraging to associate professor Mary Claire O’Brien, M.D., who conducted groundbreaking research into the dangers of the drinks.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Arsenic, a toxic compound with a reputation as a good tool for committing homicide, has a significant positive effect on the survival of patients with leukemia, according to a study led by Bayard L. Powell, M.D., a professor of hematology and oncology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements