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Making wishes come true

February 19, 2014  |   Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Student, Top Stories

When 6-year-old Ava Elsner arrived on campus Saturday afternoon, students dressed as Cinderella and Snow White greeted her and placed a sparkling crown on her head. Students sponsored a Make-A-Wish trip for Ava, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy.

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Happy Chinese New Year

February 12, 2014  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, International, Top Stories

A different animal represents each year in the Chinese zodiac calendar, and 2014 is the year of the horse. Wake Forest hosted a Chinese New Year celebration at The Barn for students, faculty, staff and the Winston-Salem community.

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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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Dining by design

January 15, 2014  |   2014 Highlights, Community, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014

For coffee, lunch, dinner or a late-night study session, North Dining Hall is the newest gathering place on campus. The two-story, 21,000 square-foot dining facility opened this week.

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Spring is the air

January 8, 2014  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, Top Stories

Take a glance at the variety of world-class theatrical and musical performances, gallery exhibitions and visiting artists series that students, faculty and staff can anticipate this spring at the Forest.

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Student Storytellers: Saturdays with math and jicama

December 19, 2013  |   Alumni, Campus Life, Community, Humanities, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Research, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Erin Hellmann (’14) and Logan Healy-Tuke (’14) founded The Ashley Explorers Saturday Academy to strengthen the reading and math skills of elementary students in Winston-Salem.

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Lovefeast: A unifying tradition

December 11, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, Student, Top Stories

Christmas decorations, music, and the smell of sweet coffee filled Wait Chapel as more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alums and friends of the University gathered to celebrate the 49th annual Lovefeast.

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Students fight hunger for children

December 5, 2013  |   Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, School of Law, Student, Top Stories

Students at the School of Business turned an assignment about food insecurity and hunger in Forsyth County into a competition that raised $20,000 to feed school children over the holiday break. They presented a check to Forsyth Backpack, a nonprofit agency founded by School of Law professor Barbara Lentz.

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Turkeypalooza: A week of Thanksgiving

November 27, 2013  |   Admissions, Alumni, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Philanthropy, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Wake Forest students cook and deliver made-from-scratch Thanksgiving dinners to local residents during Turkeypalooza, an annual event hosted by The Campus Kitchen.

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Angelou champions dignified discourse

November 7, 2013  |   Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories

Award-winning poet, author and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou encouraged a standing-room only crowd to take individual responsibility for creating a community of kindness and respect. The event marked the first 30 days of a yearlong, campus-wide “Dignity and Respect Campaign.”

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