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Life in the past lane
August 8, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
In July, Wake Forest was proud to host the 59th annual National Junior Classical League convention, helping to plan the event and providing faculty presentations, as well as giving the students a taste of the Demon Deacon lifestyle.
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Opening research doors
August 6, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Top Stories
This summer, Wake Forest is home to 12 scholars from Spelman College, America’s oldest historically black college for women. The scholars have teamed up with faculty in chemistry, communication, English, psychiatry and psychology to conduct research throughout the university.
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Can beliefs make us brave?
June 20, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Christian Miller, associate professor of philosophy and director of The Character Project, explores the beliefs that help us act more virtuously for the re-launch of the high profile website developed by The John Templeton Foundation called Big Questions Online.
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Making bioethics personal
May 14, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Humanities, School of Medicine, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
The undergraduate and graduate students in Comm 370 spent the spring semester pondering a bioethics case study surrounding organ transplants and patient selection while also enhancing their communications skills by learning how to perform the material as a radio play.
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The science of dance
April 27, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior chemistry major Tara Seymour (’12) has been dancing since she was 4. She never imagined she would be dancing out the process of DNA replication until the opportunity arose to participate in Movement and the Molecular, the first class where chemistry meets dance taught at Wake Forest.
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Phi Beta Kappa recognition
April 25, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On April 18, sixty-two seniors, twenty-three juniors and one alumna were inducted into Wake Forest’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — the nations oldest academic honor society.
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‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
April 23, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, “Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight,” served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events illuminating dynamic relationships between the arts and sciences.
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Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
April 20, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.
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Scholars to explore Hispanic studies
April 19, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Top Stories
The Department of Romance Languages is hosting a three-day Hispanic Transatlantic Studies symposium that will bring scholars from a variety of countries to campus to present cutting-edge research in history and the humanities.
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Encouraging environment for student writers
March 28, 2012 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers
Provost emeritus Ed Wilson assumed the posture of Janus, looking to the past and future, as he addressed the audience gathered Friday evening for the concluding event of Words Awake’s inaugural day. With characteristic clarity and elegance, Wilson wove together texts and reflections that joined the rich humus of Wake Forest’s literary traditions with the achievements of contemporary and the promise of future writers.
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