News from Last Week
In this Issue:
- Fall course schedule is now available
- Summer Session registration went live today
- Dining Dilemmas: To Jab or Not to Jab?
- Wake was at SXSW EDU (South by Southwest E-D-U)
- Knee osteoarthritis study insights
- This one is for the Northeast families/students 🙂
Welcome back, Daily Deacdom! I hope all our Deacs had a happy, fun, and restful Spring Break. Today started up with a lot of tornado watches and indications that today could be full of strong thunderstorms and wind. Wake Alert has been very active with notifications this morning, including a Tornado Warning for our area at 10:21 am (which thankfully passed uneventfully).
Today I am going to catch you up on some of the things that happened last week. Read what serves you, scroll past anything that doesn’t.
Fall course schedule is now available
The fall semester course schedule went live on Friday, so students can begin taking a look at the offerings for the fall and making their saved course schedules for registration at the end of the month (March 31-April 3). Students can see the courses in Workday (I always use the Find Course Schedules report to see what is on offer).
Advising begins today, so students should be in touch with their Lower Division Adviser (i.e., adviser before they declare a major) or their Major/Minor Adviser to set up a time for an in-person advising meeting. As always, the Office of the University Registrar will communicate with undergraduate students about registration appointments and all relevant dates.
Summer Session registration went live today
If your Deac is considering Summer Session, they can begin registering for classes via Workday from today until the last day to add for their specific session (e.g., Summer I or Summer II). Students can find all deadlines on the Summer Calendar and browse courses.
Summer Session is a great option for students. Some use it to focus on a class necessary for their major and they need to focus on it with laser-like precision, minus the distractions of other classes, an active social life, etc. Others retake a class they got a grade they did not like; note you can only retake if you have a C- or lower. Students also like to use Summer Session to knock out a class or two and then have a lighter load during the fall or spring semester. Whatever your Deac’s reason, Summer Session could be a helpful experience. And I am teaching one this summer – Intro to Integrated Marketing (in person), so if you have interested Communication students, send them my way!
Dining Dilemmas: To Jab or Not to Jab?
We have an upcoming event that might be interesting to students, particularly those who might be interested in going into medical fields: Dining Dilemmas, which is dinner and discussion about a current topic relevant to the health professions.
Next week’s Dining Dilemma is entitled To Jab or Not to Jab, which is related to vaccine decision-making. The format is simple: students and faculty come together for dinner in the Mag Room and, following some very brief presentations, there are student-facilitated small group discussions about the topic.
Even if your Deacs aren’t bound for a medical profession, this is still a topic that might be of interest, particularly if your Deacs one day want to have children, as they will be faced with making vaccine choices with their kids.
Student registration is through the QR code below or at this link; students must register by Friday, March 20.
Wake is at SXSW EDU (South by Southwest E-D-U)
Wake Forest was at SXSW EDU last week. SWSW EDU is a “learning festival where the learner, the practitioner, the entrepreneur, and the visionary come together in Austin, Texas to share ideas, network, and create the future of teaching and learning.”
Wake was there to share some of our innovations and learn from what other exceptional educational institutions are doing. Here’s a sample from the @wfuniversity Facebook:
“At @SXSWEDU this week, Wake Forest is inviting attendees to wake up to what’s possible.
Guided by our motto, #ProHumanitate, meaning ‘For Humanity,’ our work connects ambitious research with compassionate action. Learn more at wake.wfu.edu.
We closed the second day of @SXSWEDU by hosting our ‘Leadership for Tomorrow’ Happy Hour, bringing together educators, innovators and partners who share a commitment to developing the next generation of leaders.”
You can also see the wrap up video from the week. It’s really cool stuff. If you are not following our official Facebook or Instagram (or other social media accounts) to see great news like this, you can find all the accounts here.
Knee osteoarthritis study insights
[Full disclosure: I am part of this research study, but I think it is incredibly cool and wanted to share it.]
Dr. Steve Messier of Health and Exercise Science explains the TOPS study, which is meant to help prevent knee osteoarthritis in older adults. He talks about how diet and exercise combined help reduce the load on the knee and strengthen the muscles – and hopefully help prevent osteoarthritis. Watch the video here.
Although this is not part of the video, one of the things I have witnessed as a participant is the side benefits of this study: it has bonded the women in our group and given us an additional community to be a part of, together. You can also see the participants’ confidence grow as they get stronger on the weight machines (and get lighter on the scale).
This is amazing research and I am proud to be part of it. And proud that the faculty at Wake are working on important, real problems that can change people’s lives for the better.
This one is for the Northeast families/students 🙂
We have a lot of students from the Northeast (I was one of those, from PA). I hope all of the students who are not from the South have explored some of our regional breakfast specialties, like biscuits and gravy, grits, country ham, etc.
There are foods from other parts of the country that you can’t necessarily get here in Winston (or if you can, it doesn’t taste quite like home: see cheesteaks). So when I find a place that feels authentic and I think it might resonate with students and families, I like to share it. This time, it’s bagels.
While Winston has bagel stores, they don’t necessarily taste like the bagels I would get in Phili or New York. But now in King, NC, about a 20ish minute drive from campus, there is a new bagel place – Bagel Boss – that tastes like the real deal. And has some great extras.
I got a dozen bagels, which were delicious – and the onion and garlic versions were appropriately smelly 🙂 – but the coup de grace for me was they had authentic NY style crumb cake, which is a personal favorite of mine. It was superb. I am not a lox person, so I can’t speak to that, but they had all the expected items: various cream cheese spreads, premade salads (whitefish, tuna, etc.), the black and white cookie, rugelach, etc. So if you have/are a Deac craving a bagel or sweets that taste like home, this is an option worth trying.
And full disclosure: I did not get anything in return for sharing this recommendation. I just really loved that bagel, and especially the crumb cake 🙂
That’s all I’ve got for you today, Daily Deacdom. Have a great week!