http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu Tue, 15 May 2012 18:07:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Liberal Arts and Leadership: Recent findings show that a liberal arts education may be a "significant contributor to the career success of leaders in the business, government and nonprofit sectors." Mark Peltz, associate dean and director of career development at Grinnell College writes: "…Today, perhaps more than ever, our nation’s ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/05/14/inside-higher-ed-2/ Arrests in Fla. hazing death renew scrutiny of violent rite: In one of the largest hazing prosecutions ever, 13 people were charged Wednesday in the brutal hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion.…Gregory Parks, an assistant professor of law at Wake Forest University in North Carolina who ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/05/08/usa-today-5/ Face's Left Side More Attractive Than Its Right Side, Study Shows: Which is your better side? New research shows that the left side of the human face is generally more appealing to others than the right side--which may help explain why portraitists tend to paint their subjects' left profiles. For ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/23/huffington-post-science/ Preventing tween behavior problems: The key [to preventing tween behavior problems]: building a close relationship. "That way, you'll have more resources to draw upon later, especially during conflicts," says Christy M. Buchanan, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University and the mom of teens. A study by Buchanan ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/20/cnn-living-2/ Two-Headed Trout Spur Scrutiny of Mine Pollution: Dennis Lemly is a research biologist with the U.S. Forest Service and a professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He says the EPA is revisiting its decades-old selenium standards. And the dueling studies in southeast Idaho could have an impact on ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/20/northwest-public-radio/ 'May Their Memory Be for a Blessing': In January, I was honored to attend a United Nations showing of the unique documentary film, The Last Flight of Petr Ginz. The film tells the story of an artistic Czech boy who was killed at Auschwitz. It focuses on Petr's short life ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/19/u-s-department-of-state-blog/ [caption id="attachment_1909" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Heidi Robinson"][/caption] The Liberal Arts and Careers: For Wake Forest University students in the “Options in the World of Work” course on Wednesday, the topic was location. Heidi Robinson, the instructor, walked students through exercises in which they discussed how to evaluate job opportunities in different localities. ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/12/inside-higher-ed/ How to Find Happiness at Work: "Employment is good for your health," says Wake Forest University sociologist Robin Simon. "Work gives people a source of social interaction as well as [makes] a financial contribution" to their lives, she says. The added stresses and documented health effects of job losses during ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/04/03/u-s-news-world-report-money/ Admissions 101: Do you prefer college acceptances and rejections be done by Web site or envelope?: At the end of this month, college acceptance and rejection notices go out. I visited Wake Forest University last week and discovered, to my shock, that they still send theirs by mail, in a ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/03/14/the-washington-post-6/ Belated liftoff for a cinematic flight of Holocaust-era imagination: …North Carolina filmmaker Sandy Dickson happened upon a copy of "The Diary of Petr Ginz" in a Winston-Salem bookstore while waiting out her mother's hair appointment and was so compelled by the book's expressiveness that she tracked down his sister by ... http://newscenter.blogs.wfu.edu/2012/03/05/atlanta-journal-constitution-2/