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		<title>Taking journalism overseas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Wake Forest junior receives the school's first grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Using multimedia, Yasmin Bendaas will document a vanishing tradition in Northern Algeria as a foreign correspondent. It's a role journalists say is vanishing as well.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/05/11/taking-journalism-overseas/</link>
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		<title>Summer study in Haiti and Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Political science major Frank de Waegh and biology major Matthew Sechler will be conducting research abroad this summer as the first recipients of the Latin American and Latino Studies program’s Chauvenet Award. ]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/05/10/summer-study-in-haiti-and-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Off to Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums -- since 1993.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/05/08/off-to-africa/</link>
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		<title>Goodwill and good health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace Wandell first dreamed of becoming an international representative when she was 7 years old. Her aspiration has come true. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she will head to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this fall to earn a Masters Degree in Global Health.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/04/30/goodwill-and-good-health/</link>
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		<title>Scholars to explore Hispanic studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/04/19/scholars-to-explore-hispanic-studies/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Children of Kabul’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/04/13/children-of-kabul%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>One Day Without Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/04/11/one-day-without-shoes/</link>
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		<title>Global issues on a local scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Political science majors Kathryne Doria (’13) and Tamara Guillen (’12) witnessed first-hand how global issues shape local communities in Winston-Salem when they took Latino Political Behavior and Public Opinion, taught by assistant professor Betina Wilkinson.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/03/22/global-issues-on-a-local-scale/</link>
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		<title>Irish poetry for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On St. Patrick’s Day, Jeff Holdridge, director of the Wake Forest University Press -- the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America -- discusses the future of Irish poetry after "The Troubles" and shares his five favorite Irish poems.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/03/16/irish-poetry-for-st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<title>Kony 2012: a student&#8217;s firsthand experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hunter DeKoninck knows firsthand the horror inflicted by Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA). DeKoninck, a senior, traveled to Northern Uganda last summer on a Richter scholarship. There, he helped rehabilitate soldiers abducted into the guerilla leader’s forces.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.wfu.edu/2012/03/09/kony-2012-a-students-firsthand-experience/</link>
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