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Professor of Biology Herman Eure (left) and Randolph Childress, assistant men's basketball coach

Diversity impacts who, what we teach

Increasing diversity has changed who, what and how faculty teach, writes Professor of Biology Herman Eure (Ph.D ’74).

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Celebrating a milestone: Professor Emeritus Herman Preseren turns 100

Family, friends and the Demon Deacon celebrate retired professor Herman Preseren’s 100th birthday.

'Libraries, it turns out, are filled with stacks of books — and of memories,' writes Jane Freeman Crosthwaite.

Checking out the ghosts in ZSR library

Is that the ghost of A.C. Reid? ZSR library is filled with more than books, writes Jane Freeman Crosthwaite (’59).

Toby Hale has mentored countless students over the last 40 years.

Godspeed, Dean Toby A. Hale

When Dean Toby A. Hale retires this summer, Wake Forest will lose a significant piece of its heart and soul.

Barbee Myers Oakes ('80, MA '81)

Constant & True

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw Though neither of my parents attended college, their belief in this principle fashioned both my infinite thirst for knowledge and the confidence that I could overcome formidable odds [...]

Errin Fulp

Creative People

Challenge: Protect computer networks from cyberattacks Solution: Mimic nature to deploy “digital ants” to seek out threats and alert human security experts Co-researchers: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and students, including Michael Crouse (’10, MS ’12), named one of the nation’s top new inventors in 2011 by Inventors Digest magazine “We looked at multiple types of [...]

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High Impact

ON A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN SPRING, Joel Stitzel drives from downtown Winston-Salem to the Wake Forest School of Medicine campus in his late-model Toyota. He means to upgrade to something newer, with side-impact airbags, because he understands the value of this relatively recent safety feature better than most. He’s meeting with a group of doctors, [...]

Rogan Kersh

Rogan Returns

When Wake Forest appointed Rogan Kersh (’86) as the University’s new provost and professor of political science on Jan. 26, it was a happy homecoming for the former Reynolds Scholar and his professors. Kersh assumed his duties as chief academic officer, with responsibility for administering the academic programs and plans of the Reynolda Campus, in [...]

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Remembering Walter Harrelson

Walter J. Harrelson, who laid the foundation for Wake Forest’s divinity school in the mid-1990s, has died.

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Summer’s hottest books

From a riveting account of World War I to the uplifting story of Martha Mason (’60), alumni professors share their favorite can’t-put-down summer books.