Message from Provost Rogan Kersh sent by e-mail to faculty and staff: For the better part of a year now, many groups across campus — University leaders, faculty, staff and students — have been engaged in conversations about plans for an undergraduate academic presence in […]
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Congratulations to Daniel Kim-Shapiro, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Storage lesion in banked blood due to disruption of nitric oxide homeostasis” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 5R01HL098032-07 and by [subaward/subcontract from] University of Pittsburgh (WFU funding […]
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A $6 million federal grant, the largest ever awarded to Wake Forest, will enable health and exercise science researchers to further study knee osteoarthritis and successful treatment measures in community-based settings. Health and exercise science professor Steve Messier and colleagues have spent 26 of the […]
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Roberta Morosini, professor of Romance languages, received the Luigi De Lise Culture Award for 2015 in a Sept. 6 ceremony in Italy. She is in Italy this fall for a sabbatical. The award is named in honor of a playwright from Sarno, Italy, Morosini’s […]
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Barbee Oakes, one of the most recognized leaders in Wake Forest diversity and inclusion initiatives, has been promoted to a new position expanding her opportunities to advance those efforts. Recently, Oakes was appointed as Wake Forest’s first chief diversity officer. She retains her assistant provost […]
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Science faculty and the Learning Assistance Center (LAC) are collaborating this fall to help first-year students deal with exam panic through a three-part workshop, “How to prevent a panic attack on your first college science exam.” Michael Shuman, interim director, and Shelly Cardi, staff psychologist, […]
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School of Business accounting faculty Andrea Kelton and Ya-wen Yang received the 2015 Accounting Information Systems Notable Contributions to the Literature Award. The award was presented Aug. 11 during the American Accounting Association annual meeting in Chicago. The award recognizes a paper published prior to […]
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The President’s Ball will be held Sept. 25 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Coliseum. The biennial event, which began 10 years ago to celebrate the inauguration of President Nathan O. Hatch, is open to students, faculty, staff and alumni. They may bring […]
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A Community Forum on Campus Climate will be held Sept. 9 in Benson University Center, Room 401. Students, faculty and staff are invited to the forum to be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The forum will focus on the progress Wake Forest has made […]
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The American Academy of Religion (AAR) has selected Michelle Voss Roberts of the School of Divinity as one of its 2015 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion. She is associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of theology in […]
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