Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies, is among the 2010 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. President Barack Obama will present the awards early next year. Read more.
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Gail R. O’Day, dean of the divinity school and professor of new testament and preaching, delivered the Carmichael-Walling lectures at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Read more.
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Mary Lou Voytko, a neuroscience faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, received the 3rd annual Neuroscience Teaching Award.
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Mike Tesh, associate vice president of human resources, has accepted a new position at a national company based in Raleigh and will be leaving Wake Forest in mid-December. Tesh, who came to Wake Forest in March 2007, will become senior vice president and chief […]
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If Steve Duke isn’t in his Reynolda Hall office, you might look for him in Russia, Finland or one of the other 16 countries he’s visited. Duke, who has been director of the Center for International Studies for two-and-a-half years, works with faculty, students and […]
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Scott Klein, professor and chair of English, has published an edition of Wyndham Lewis’s novel “Tarr,” with Oxford University Press, as part of the Oxford World Classics series. This is the first scholarly edition of the final 1928 text of Lewis’s novel.
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Helga Welsh, professor of political science, wrote an article, “Policy Transfer in the Unified Germany: From Imitation to Feedback Loops,” in German Studies Review (Vol. 33, no. 3, October 2010, pp. 531-548). She is also the co-editor of the Special Issue Section of the German Studies […]
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Joel Newman, School of Law professor, has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Only one-third of 1 percent of the lawyers in America are named Fellows. Newman is well known nationally and internationally as a tax scholar and lawyer. Read more.
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Cloning. Genetic testing. Stem-cell research. Medical experiments. End-of-life decisions. With new breakthroughs in science and medicine often racing ahead of ethical concerns, Wake Forest’s new Center for Bioethics, Health and Society is addressing some of the most relevant issues at the heart of biotechnology, medical […]
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Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Political Science, has published two articles: “Exile and its Impact on Shifting Perspectives on Politics, Institutions and Collective Identities”, in Spanish, in the Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Costa Rica), 125: 83-101, in October 2010; and “Massive Exile, Political Inclusion and […]
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