Wake Forest University

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....

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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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....

In a just a little over a month, many high school seniors will become rising freshmen. The seniors at Penn-Griffin School for the Arts have their college plans in order and are looking to the future. Amber Jones will attend University of North...

Rhythm "STOMP" will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in War Memorial Auditorium at the Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 W. Lee St. The long-running show that began as street performance in the United Kingdom mixes percussion and movement. $54.05-$64.85,...

Ted and Mary Jo Pankau of Lake Geneva, Wisc., announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Pankau, to Trevor McEvoy, son of Rick and Shelley McEvoy of Bel Air. Pankau is a graduate of Badger High School and Wake Forest University and is a faculty...

NY Magazine has a new article titled, “All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting.” The headline caught my attention because A) it’s incredibly sensationalistic, and B) I was unaware that so many parents had such contempt for their...

Jeffrey S. Evans, a Waynesboro attorney and lifelong Franklin County resident, will run for the position of judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin and Fulton counties. “I have a broad range of experience and understanding of the law, and I...