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Welcome back Deacs: WFU students return for spring semester
January 27, 2021 | Campus Life, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
With colder weather ahead, Wake Forest has created a new space called “Fireside on Manchester.” The Plaza is now home to temporary ‘outdoor living rooms’ with fire pits and safely-distanced Adirondack chairs.
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WFU announces plans for new School of Professional Studies led by Business School Dean
December 3, 2020 | School of Business, Top Stories, University Announcement
Wake Forest University’s Board of Trustees has approved plans to establish a School of Professional Studies in Charlotte. Pending completion of a full market analysis and business plan, the proposed school will house innovative degree and non-degree programs, including certificates and other credentials, for working professionals. Wake Forest University president Nathan O. Hatch has tapped Charles Iacovou, Dean of the School of Business, to establish the new school, Wake Forest’s first since establishing the School of Divinity, which began offering classes in 1999.
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Wake Forest University contributes to national study on housing loss
September 9, 2020 | Faculty, Mentoring, Research, School of Law, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The Future of Property Rights Program at New America, in partnership with Wake Forest University, Wake Forest University School of Law, and Winston-Salem State University has been conducting research to understand where housing loss is most acute across the nation, with a spotlight on Forsyth County to determine who is most impacted and why.
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From economic theory to a living case study of coronavirus
April 28, 2020 | Faculty, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Economics professor Megan Regan revised her syllabus to focus on a living case study of the coronavirus. Most of the assigned readings “went in the dumpster fire,” she said, as current events aligned with the broader topics she planned to teach.
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WFU students lend a virtual hand to help local school children
March 27, 2020 | Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest students will lend a virtual hand to K-12 students who unexpectedly find themselves at home during the COVID-19 pandemic trying to learn subjects that may be giving them trouble. Any parent of a child in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools who wants a tutor can request one.
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A current look into Wake Forest’s past
December 19, 2019 | Community in Progress, Faculty, School of Divinity, Student, Top Stories
During a November bus trip to Wake Forest University’s original campus, Professor Derek Hicks took 21 students to a nondescript cemetery where many of the tombstones had carvings but no names. He wanted his African American Religious Experience class to visit the cemetery because of its ties to a chapel where enslaved people who helped build the original campus once worshipped.
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Jonathan L. Walton named Dean of WFU School of Divinity
April 28, 2019 | Faculty, School of Divinity, Top Stories, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has appointed Jonathan L. Walton as Dean of the School of Divinity. Walton is currently at Harvard, where he serves as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the University’s Memorial Church. He is also Professor of Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Jane Aiken named Dean of WFU School of Law
April 24, 2019 | Faculty, School of Law, Top Stories, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has chosen Jane Aiken to become the next Dean of the School of Law. Aiken comes to Wake Forest from Georgetown Law, where she has been a professor and administrator since 2007 and currently serves as the Blume Professor of Law.
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Hold the mustard: What makes spiders fussy eaters?
April 15, 2019 | Faculty, Graduate School, Media Advisory, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, University Announcement
It might be one of nature’s most agile and calculating hunters, but the wolf spider won’t harm an insect that literally leaves a bad taste in its mouth, according to new research by a team of Wake Forest University sensory neuroscientists, including C.J. “Jake” Saunders.
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WFU names Eric Maguire vice president for enrollment
April 8, 2019 | Admissions, Top Stories, University Announcement, Wake Forest College
Eric Maguire has been named vice president for enrollment at Wake Forest. Maguire is known for his success in recruiting highly talented undergraduates, prioritizing academic excellence and increasing socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diversity.
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