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Colleges start posing mind-bending essay questions: Where’s Waldo?

2012-12-19 11:54:50

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New college application questions encourage creative thinking

2012-12-19 00:00:00

"So where is Waldo, really?" That's not the kind of question most high school seniors expect to find on their college admission applications. But it is one of the essay options that applicants to the University of Chicago face this year in their quest...

PASSINGS: Jim Flick, Jack Hood Vaughn

2012-11-07 00:00:00

Jim Flick Longtime golf instructor Jim Flick, 82, a golf instructor for more than 50 years whose clients included Tom Lehman and Jack Nicklaus, died Monday at his home in Carlsbad, Calif., of pancreatic cancer, his family said. Flick taught golf in...

Williamsburg's Bill Casto named to Glenville State College Hall of Fame

2013-05-23 09:28:00

Four alumni and one coach were inducted into the Glenville State College Curtis Elam Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony held May 18. The 2013 inductees are Bill Whetsell '46, Robert Reynolds '58, Bill Casto '67, Steve Seals '70, and Gary Ray '71.�...

Milks earns highest honors at Lynchburg

2013-05-23 06:29:37

Shelly Milks, a senior at Lynchburg College, recently was awarded two of the top honors at Lynchburg College's annual awards banquet. Milks, a Gloucester High School graduate, won the Female Senior Award and the Female Athlete of the Year honor....

UConn Study: When Video Game Players See Enemy As Human, They Are More Aggressive

2013-05-20 14:47:00

A new study of video games found that a player's perception of enemies as human, not alien, led the player to be more verbally aggressive afterward. The study also found that men were more physically aggressive than women in behavioral tests taken after...

Wake Forest law graduate-to-be plans to run program to help educate prisoners

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tiffany Kallam learned in middle school how it feels to be judged when she overheard her guidance counselor tell a colleague that Kallam probably wouldn't amount to anything. Kallam, who grew up in Minnesota and also lived in Texas, had come to her...

Wake Forest Baptist IT director stepping down

2013-05-18 00:00:00

The chief information officer for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is stepping down, effective May 31, the center confirmed Friday. Sheila Sanders has served in that role, as well as vice president of information technology, since being hired in...

Robert Lindgren, founding dance dean at UNCSA, dies

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Robert Lindgren, the founding dean of the School of Dance at UNC School of the Arts, died Friday at his home in Winston-Salem. He was 89. The cause of death was not immediately available. Lindgren was a "titan in the dance world," Alex Ewing, a former...

Friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect released while awaiting trial for allegedly lying

2013-05-06 12:14:46

BOSTON (AP) — A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has been released from federal custody while he awaits trial for allegedly lying to federal investigators probing the April 15 bombings. Robel...

Big Ten academic committee reaches out to UM

2013-04-30 15:53:48

While the University of Maryland won't be able to reap most of the rewards of joining the Big Ten athletic conference until the move becomes official in July 2014, it will start benefiting from its academic counterpart — the Committee on...

The heart of a teacher with a love for the land

2013-04-29 07:44:02

Robert Holder is the man you would want on your side if a disaster ever happened. He has the perfect balance of intelligence paired with common sense, along with an enterprising spirit, the heart of a teacher and a father, and a mighty green thumb....

Dr. Frank M. Torti, vice president for strategic programs, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, will become the new vice president for health affairs at the UConn Health Center and the eighth dean of

2012-02-24 00:00:00

Justin Lambeth has joined The Quaker Oats Co. as chief marketing office.r He will have responsibility for brand insights, strategic communications, core innovation, shopper marketing and digital activation for Quaker's food businesses, primarily in the U.S.

2012-01-26 00:00:00