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Wake Forest University program connects European and American teens

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.

Participants in the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative: Summer Institute for Youth.
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High hormone levels in seabird chicks prepare them to kill their siblings

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.

Adult Nazca booby.
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Calloway School of Business and Accountancy establishes Jack E. Wilkerson Jr. Scholarship

The Calloway School of Business and Accountancy at Wake Forest University has announced the establishment of the Jack E. Wilkerson Jr. Scholarship, which will be awarded annually to an undergraduate business major.  Wilkerson, dean of the Calloway School for the past 12 years, stepped down from the post June 30.

Jack Wilkerson
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WFU faculty member helps African grandmothers raise their grandchildren orphaned by AIDS

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.

Mary Martin Niepold (center), lecturer in journalism at Wake Forest University and founder of The Nyanya Project, is shown with Amani (left) and Zedek (right), two Tanzanian children orphaned by AIDS. They are among the millions of African orphans who are being raised by their grandmothers after losing both parents to AIDS.
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Ministers to explore sacred places through Wake Forest's Holy Land Pastoral Renewal program

A group of ministers from across the nation will travel to Galilee and Jerusalem as part of the Wake Forest University Divinity School’s Holy Land Pastoral Renewal program, July 18 – August 1.  The trip to the Holy Land is intended to nurture spirituality and reflection among the group of mid-career ministers.  The 21 ministers selected for the program represent seven Christian denominations from 13 states.


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