The butterfly effect states that serendipitous happenings can produce outcomes very different from the ones envisioned. Launching a career after college is often about being in the right place at the right time and being open to the unexpected and the unplanned.
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Career take-off and the ‘butterfly effect’
October 11th, 2013 | Admissions, Alumni, Student, Wake Forest College
URECA: Research Revealed
October 9th, 2013 | Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student
When Maggie Gigler began her academic journey at Wake Forest, she knew she wanted to major in psychology and go on to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology. With her study on borderline personality disorder, she was one of 127 students presenting at Undergraduate Research Day.
Building stronger bones one runner at a time
October 7th, 2013 | Athletics, Graduate School, Research, School of Medicine, Student, Teacher-Scholar
A first-of-a-kind study by Wake Forest researchers will address why long distance runners, particularly women, are more likely than athletes in other sports to develop osteoporosis later in life.
Media Advisory: Museum of Anthropology continues to celebrate 50th anniversary
October 7th, 2013 | Media Advisory
Who: The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) will continue to celebrate its 50th anniversary this fall. The anniversary date of the Museum’s opening was Monday, September 23, which was the first day of classes in 1963. What: A Golden Anniversary Gala is planned to continue the 50th anniversary celebration of MOA. Patrons will enjoy a culinary tour of the […]
Wake Foresters “Hit the Bricks”
October 4th, 2013 | Events, Philanthropy, Pro Humanitate, Student
More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears.
A closer look at who’s behind bars
October 2nd, 2013 | Events, Speakers, Student
Seventeen students gathered for a conversation about mass incarceration with civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander before she presented a public lecture to more than 1,000 people in Wait Chapel.
Media Advisory: Students, faculty and staff ‘Hit the Bricks’ for Brian Piccolo
October 2nd, 2013 | Media Advisory
In 2003, students at Wake Forest University started a tradition to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. The eight-hour relay race, along the brick pathways on campus, honors Piccolo, an alumnus who attended the University in the 1960s and former Chicago Bears running back whose story is featured in the 1971 movie […]
Media Advisory: Story of My Life: Facilitating storytelling when there is a language barrier
October 1st, 2013 | Media Advisory
“Story of My Life” follows the lives of six intellectually and developmentally disabled adults. Through photography, written and spoken word, and various visual art forms, the stories of six remarkable men and women are told. “Everyone has a story,” says Phoebe Zerwick, a lecturer in the English Department at Wake Forest University. “We want to […]
Media Advisory: Michelle Alexander: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
October 1st, 2013 | Media Advisory
Civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander will speak at Wake Forest University at 6 p.m. Oct. 1 in Wait Chapel as part of the University’s Voices of Our Time series. Alexander’s New York Times best-selling book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” challenges the conventional wisdom that with the election […]
Divinity School receives $2 million for scholarships
September 27th, 2013 | Philanthropy, School of Divinity
Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a life trustee who served as a U.S. Ambassador, made a $2 million gift to support student scholarships and financial aid at the Wake Forest School of Divinity.
