Aging Re-Imagined symposium begins March 17

The symposium “Aging Re-Imagined” brings leading scholars, artists, medical professionals and researchers together at Wake Forest who will share insights on four key ideas that inform how we age, and how we think and feel about aging: Mobility, Mind (including memory), Mortality, and Meaning.

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Chairs, dance and Parkinson’s Disease

Chairs, dance and Parkinson’s Disease will come together Sunday, Sept. 14, in Dancing with Parkinson’s: Choreography for the Seated Position at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Led by Wake Forest dance professor Christiana Soriano, and performed by the participants of her Dancing with […]


Proposals funded: Beavers, Carroll, Soriano

Congratulations to Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Intentional Weight Reduction and Physical and Cognitive Function” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency). Congratulations to David Carroll, professor […]


Professor uses dance to explore Parkinson’s

The smiles that emerged during a weeklong dance class were rewarding to Assistant Professor of Dance Christina Soriano. But the smiles were more than just an emotional pay off. They also offered hope of measuring real gains in mobility and balance for the people with Parkinson’s […]


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