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Thanks to an $876,000 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, patients at the Downtown Health Plaza (DHP) of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will have access to expanded integrated mental health services. An estimated 50 percent of...

(Melissa Harris-Perry during a WFU campus visit in 2012.) Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University politics professor and MSNBC television host, has been appointed executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute, which brings many of the...

(pictured above:   Malika Roman Isler shares a laugh at a recent campus wellness event.) Wake Forest University has named Malika Roman Isler, a 1999 alumna, as its first director of Wellbeing. A doctoral level-trained health scientist, Roman...

(pictured above:  Photo fromAfrican-American Sons & Daughters of Bethania, N.C. This vintage photo shows students at Cedar Grove School.) Priscilla Kerins had always wanted to learn more about her family tree. She and her brother, Wayne...

(pictured above: Dozens become U.S. citizens last year at Old Salem.) Old Salem Museums & Gardens will host a Naturalization Ceremony tomorrow (Friday, July 4) at 10 a.m. The Ceremony will be conducted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...

Conference draws gardening enthusiasts from across the state (pictured above:  Pearl Norman shows off the carnivorous plants she had available for sale at the vendors’ fair.) Green thumbs from across the state came to town last week for the 2014...

(pictured above: Dr. Beatrice Dingha examines a brown marmorated stinkbug.) Entomologists conducting integrated pest management (IPM) research at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University have reached a major milestone in...

(pictured above:  IFB Employee Tameka Monroe speaks with the Eye Bank’s Dean Vavra and Katie Hall. (Below) IFB Employee Demarius Bowens checks over donor registration information.) On Wednesday, March 19, blind and low-vision employees at...

(pictured above: WSSU student Nichelle Caudle with her tutee, Sabriyah Johnson.) Eight year-old Shailinn Morales has always loved to read. “Since I was a little girl, I have had a real interest in books,” said Shailinn, a second grader at Easton...

(pictured above: County Health Director Marlon Hunter addresses attendees.) Public health officials are making a push to persuade local property owners and managers to implement smoke free policies. “As landlords and property managers, you have...

To the Editor: This semester, I was asked to write a letter of advocacy for an issue that I stand behind. I believe that the production and possible labeling of genetically modified foods is an issue that affects each and every one of us, yet it...

Two of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s preeminent School of Medicine programs will move to Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in the spring. The Medical Center has announced that its nationally recognized Division of Public Health Sciences...

After successfully defending his dissertation, “Fair Value Measurements Disclosure: Mandatory Adoption, Valuation and Disclosure Effects,” Dr. Joseph D. Reid received his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Memphis and joined the faculty...

Despite the raindrops, more than 3,000 dedicated supporters attended the American Heart Association’s 2013 Tanglewood Heart and Stroke Walk on Saturday, Oct. 19, raising $490,000 for heart disease and stroke research and prevention education...

Meka Harrell is hoping to become a “driving force” in local women and children’s fashion. The Baltimore native is the proud owner of Pink Culture Inc., billed as the Triad’s first fashion truck. She opened the doors to her vibrant “Barbie pink”...

(Pictured Above: Charlotte School of Law’s Victoria Owens (left) and Z’a Williams) City native Vondell Davis believes in planning ahead. Since she was 16, Davis, the oldest of five children, has been working towards her goal of...

The right-wing majority of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners hit residents with a one-two punch this week. They dug in their heels on an asinine ordinance to allow residents to carry concealed weapons in Tanglewood Park and decided –...

The Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ),  a national advocacy organization dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing and incarcerating youth under 18 in the adult criminal justice system, released a new report last week that takes a...