Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based anti-tumor drugs that animal studies have shown to be 10 times more effective than current treatments in destroying certain types of lung cancer cells.
Wake Forest University will address the growing need in higher education to help faculty better prepare their students for successful study abroad experiences at the first annual Workshop on Intercultural Skills Enhancement (WISE) Feb. 27-28.
Mellowtron, a melancholy plush robot who was returned to the factory after proving unfit for normal robot duties, will spend Valentine's Day looking for love at the Toy Fair in New York City. His creators, Jessie Vogel and Bill Smith, are young entrepreneurs who launched their company, StuffedRobot.com, as Wake Forest University students.
Leading visionaries and practitioners in the arts, humanities, sciences and business will gather March 18-20 at Wake Forest University for "Creativity: Worlds in the Making." This cutting-edge event, part symposium, part festival of the imagination, unites traditional individual and panel presentations with innovative performances, a gallery exhibition and participatory working sessions.
Youth programs that include boring or difficult tasks are more likely to develop responsibility in teenagers than those that are all fun and games, according to a study of youth programs and responsibility by a Wake Forest University psychologist.
Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of communication at Wake Forest University, can comment on the Academy Award-nominated film "Slumdog Millionaire." Mitra is the author of the book "India Through the Western Lens," which explores how Indians have been represented in more than 60 films during the past several decades.
Wake Forest University will host a series of speakers in the weeks following the Jan. 20 inauguration of Barack Obama, including former presidential advisors David Gergen and Stephen Hess. The series will examine organizational and policy challenges facing the new president.
The choice of Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery to pray at the inaugural ceremony reflects important dynamics in public religion past and present, says Bill Leonard, dean and professor of church history at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Leonard is available to talk about prayer and public piety at presidential inaugurations, and implications of the absence of a non-Christian voice at this year's event.
For African-Americans, the election of a black president is not only a historic milestone but may represent a psychological catharsis akin to South Africa's election of Nelson Mandela in 1994, says Anthony Parent, professor of history at Wake Forest University.
Presidents can put their personal stamp on a number of different Inauguration Day events, but this is especially true during the inaugural address, according to John Dinan, associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University. Dinan is available to comment on Inauguration Day events, including the inaugural address.
Two members of the Wake Forest University debate team will join students from five other universities to debate the priorities of the Obama administration at a Smithsonian Institution event the day before the presidential inauguration.
Refugees experience social injustice when they are forced to flee their homes, but Sarah Lischer, assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University, says many refugees experience further exploitation and violence in their new locations and again when they return home.
The new, diverse generation of ministers are forging new relationships, developing a new style of ministry and setting agendas that are parallel to and distinct from that of the Civil Rights-era generation of clergy, according to Bill Leonard, dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University.
Using a webcam, a microphone and the Internet, some students applying to Wake Forest University can now sit in their living rooms at home and have a "face-to-face" conversation with an admissions counselor at the university.
Terry Baker, associate professor of accounting at Wake Forest, asked graduate students in his class, "Accounting for Derivatives," to examine the 1998 collapse of the hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). As they prepare to embark on careers in finance and accounting, the students gained valuable insight into the lessons learned, and especially those not learned.
"In many ways, the Somali pirates bear a striking resemblance to those of the so-called "˜Golden Age' of pirates in the late 17th and early 18th centuries," says Eric Bowne, a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Wake Forest University who taught the class "Under the Black Flag: the Anthropology of Piracy."
William K. Smith, professor and Charles H. Babcock Chair of Botany at Wake Forest University, leads the Coastal Barrier Island Network (CBIN), an international group of scientists studying the effective management of barrier island ecosystems.
President Jimmy Carter and poet Maya Angelou will speak at the Southeast regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant, to be held at Wake Forest University April 24-25, 2009. The conference theme is "This is God's Year to Act: Responding to a Society in Crisis."
This year the election for president in North Carolina was closer than ever, with less than a percentage point between results for John McCain and Barack Obama. Wake Forest political analyst John Dinan says the Obama campaign's decision to continue to contest the state after the primaries led to his narrow lead in the state.
How important were YouTube, Facebook, blogs, wikis and Web sites in this election? Allan Louden, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, can explain how new advertising methods, mobilization, debates and the Internet contributed to the Barack Obama victory and changed forever the nature of campaigning for the presidency.
Jonathan Duchac, Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Vienna University of Business and Economics and Merrill Lynch Professor of Accountancy and director of the Enterprise Risk Management program at Wake Forest University's Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, will address the global financial crisis in a speech at 6 p.m. Oct. 30 at the United States Embassy in Vienna, Austria.
Wake Forest University is the recipient of two awards from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, marking the first time any school has won two GCEC awards in the same year.
Through a unique hands-on, interdisciplinary entrepreneurship project, more than 40 students, faculty and staff members from Wake Forest University are creating a Cuban bilingual art exhibition and educational outreach program from concept to completion that will open at the Grolier Club of New York in May 2009.
The Porn Wars Symposium will be held Oct. 25 at Wake Forest University, followed by a multimedia presentation by Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, on Oct. 30 and a symposium on free speech issues Oct. 31 at the Wake Forest School of Law. Participants in the events will examine how the proliferation of pornographic imagery reaches into the daily lives of Americans and raises free speech issues.
Researchers at Wake Forest University are using nanotechnology to search for new cancer-fighting drugs through a process that could be up to 10,000 times faster than current methods.
Wake Forest University will host a panel discussion, "Exploring Today's Financial Crisis: Business, Politics, Ethics and You," at 4 p.m. Oct. 3, at Scales Fine Arts Center's Brendle Recital Hall.
Wake Forest University faculty members are available to comment on the 2008 candidates, issues and campaign strategies. Experts are available from a wide range of areas, including political science, debate, religion, law and business, covering topics such as campaign ads, presidential debates, health care, banking, political scandal and young voters.
Robert Bliss, a former senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who teaches finance at Wake Forest University, is available to discuss the federal government's $700 billion rescue plan to acquire troubled mortgage-backed securities from lenders.
"Get some sleep," is the first piece of advice presidential debate expert Allan Louden has for presidential and vice presidential candidates preparing for upcoming debates. "These candidates have to be exhausted," says Louden, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University. "And that is when mistakes happen."
As Constitution Day approaches, Shannon Gilreath, professor for interdisciplinary studies at Wake Forest University School of Law, questions whether the U.S. Constitution deserves fidelity.
From "Welcome Back, Kotter," to "Boston Public," teachers have held prominent places in prime-time TV shows. Mary Dalton, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, explores how teachers have been portrayed on American television in her new book, "Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television."
Shielding children from sex and violence, avoiding commercials and finding extra time for other activities are among the key reasons Americans live without television, according to a new book by Marina Krcmar, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University.
Experts on election issues for 2008. Topics covered include energy, economy, immigration, health care, education policy, Supreme Court nominees, social security issues, national security, presidential debates and young voters.
Teenagers from Iceland, Tajikistan and Serbia will join high school students from 34 other countries for a U.S. Department of State-sponsored program at Wake Forest University June 28 through July 30.
The Nazca booby, a Galápagos Island seabird, emerges from its shell ready to kill its brother or sister. Wake Forest University biologists and their colleagues have linked the murderous behavior to high levels of testosterone and other male hormones found in the hatchlings.
Grandmothers raising their grandchildren orphaned by AIDS in Kenya and Tanzania are learning skills and developing economic self-reliance through a program created by Wake Forest University faculty member Mary Martin Niepold.
Beginning with the freshman class of 2009, Wake Forest University will make college entrance examinations optional for admission. Wake Forest will become the only top 30 national university with a test-optional policy.
Steve Reinemund, the former PepsiCo chief executive officer and chairman who is widely praised as one of the nation's most innovative and respected business leaders, has been named the new dean of Wake Forest University's two business schools, the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management.
Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials will host a gathering of scientists, engineers and medical researchers at a workshop that will explore both the science and the emerging business of nanomaterials used in medicine.
Susan Sharpless Smith, head of information technology at Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library, has been selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive its 2008 Instruction Section (IS) Innovation Award.
Samuel Weber, associate professor of early Christianity at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, was invited to compose original chant settings for the Pope's visit to Washington, D.C. in April. Weber says the decision to use chant melodies reflects the aesthetic and tradition at the heart of prayer life in the Roman Catholic Church.
To better understand college students' mental health issues and explore what can be done to help them handle the pressures of college life, Wake Forest University will host the conference "College of the Overwhelmed: Facing Facts, Finding Solutions" April 7. The keynote speaker will be Richard Kadison, author of "College of the Overwhelmed."
Celtic Christianity is a unique blend of Christianity with indigenous religions such as druidism, according to Linda McKinnish Bridges, professor at the Wake Forest Divinity School. The two faiths mixed easily in the early centuries, and today remnants of the druidic tradition still remain within the practice of Christianity in Ireland.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University a grant totaling $596,679 to create a network of private sector, nonprofit and local government partnerships designed to fuel innovation and launch new entrepreneurial ventures.
The Democracy Fellows Project at Wake Forest University helped students learn a new way of talking about politics without the polarized debate that turns young people off. Projects took students from campus to the broader community and helped them realize their own power to influence the democratic process.
Columnist David Brooks and former congressman Lee Hamilton are among a group of distinguished authorities who will speak at a two-day conference titled, "Why Work? Business, Professions and the Common Good," at Wake Forest University March 27-28.
In January, Wake Forest University will present "Secrets vs. Security," an opportunity for people to examine the issues of government secrets, free speech and national security.
Jack D. Fleer, professor emeritus of political science at Wake Forest University and author of "Governors Speak," says that overall, governors rate fairly well when they win the presidency.
Twelve student teachers at Wake Forest University are pioneering the use of "smartphones," pocket-sized devices that combine the features of a computer with the functions of a cell phone, in elementary school classrooms this fall. The first of its kind in the country, the program puts the devices in the hands of student teachers to find out how they can be used to track the performance of students and improve the quality of teaching.
A team of researchers from Wake Forest University, the National Institutes of Health and other institutions has discovered a previously undetected chemical process within the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin that could have far-reaching implications for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
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