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From books to Nooks

January 22, 2014  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Online, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Lost in the world of e-books? The ZSR Library is helping alumni and parents navigate the shift from paper books to bytes with ZSRx, a series of online learning opportunities that offer the personal attention of a Wake Forest classroom.

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Voices for justice

January 20, 2014  |   Admissions, Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Junior Gracie Harrington and campus life leaders Marianne Magjuka, Shelley Sizemore and Matt Williams, have been named Wake Forest University’s 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award winners.

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It’s a dog’s life

January 6, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

While communication and psychology professors don’t teach “dog-speak,” they do teach students how to understand and interact with people — valuable traits that have allowed one graduate to parlay her passion for dogs into a fulfilling career.

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Student Storyteller: A Stroke of Service

December 30, 2013  |   Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Junior Bailey Godwin reflects upon her semester abroad in New Zealand and Cambodia, where she combined her passion for neuroscience research and her dedication to Pro Humanitate.

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A Year at Wake Forest

December 26, 2013  |   Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

What is life like in the Forest? In 2013, the University celebrated Demon Deacons old and new, inspired excellence, created opportunity and continued to grow the culture of philanthropy and service inherent in our motto, Pro Humanitate. See for yourself in a series of photos.

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Top 10 Wake Forest news stories of 2013

December 23, 2013  |   Alumni, Campus Life, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

The announcement that Gwen Ifill would be delivering Wake Forest’s 2013 Commencement address was the No. 10 most-viewed story of the year. Find out what other nine stories were hits .

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Take a guess or skip the question

November 18, 2013  |   Admissions, Faculty, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College

If you’re taking the SAT and you’re not positive you know the correct answer, do you skip or guess? Previous studies suggest that your strategy may be very different from that of the student sitting next to you. A faculty-student research team in economics is looking for answers.

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Still life vs. real life

November 13, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Biology professor Kathy Kron and the 11 students enrolled in Biology 105: Plants & People met at Reynolda House Museum of American Art to learn firsthand how biology is incorporated in the current exhibition, “Things Wondrous and Humble: American Still Life.”

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When writing goes to war

November 11, 2013  |   Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

English professor Sharon Raynor’s students sift through acid-free folders looking at letters that soldiers sent home during the Civil War and World War I and II. Pulling out folders. Reading the words. It’s an experience unlike looking at a digitized copy.

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Toxic tiger moth

November 8, 2013  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

A battle for evolutionary dominance is raging in Arizona between the tiger moth and the echo-locating bat. New research being done by Wake Forest shows the tiger moth currently has the upper hand.

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