Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain outlined his vision for the federal judiciary and said he would nominate judges with "a proven commitment to judicial restraint" in a speech Tuesday in Wait Chapel.

Sylvain Boko, Zachary T. Smith Associate Professor of Economics, and David Weinstein, professor of political science, have won fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Sarah Watts has been awarded a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the category of fine arts research. Her research promises to reorient scholarship on German Expressionist Lyonel Feininger and established views about the development of satirical humor, literature and art in Germany.

Steve Reinemund, former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo, has been named dean of Wake Forest's two business schools — the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management — which will be led by a single dean for the first time in school history.

More coverage at the Winston-Salem Journal Web site.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton appeared before 2,000 people in Wait Chapel Friday night for an hour-long conversation on diversity, education, energy independence and other issues with Reynolds Professor Maya Angelou.

Harry Clifton, a poet published by Wake Forest University Press, has won this year's Irish Times Poetry Now award for his collection, Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004. Learn more about the Press in "Well Versed" and listen to poetry readings by poets-in-residence Vona Groarke, Connor O'Callaghan and others.

A student exhibition at the Hanes Art Gallery will run through May 19. The show includes works works using a variety of materials. Honor student exhibitions are featured in the Mezzanine Gallery.

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