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Student Storyteller: Vanishing Ink
October 8, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity, Wake Forest College
Inspired by the tattoos on her Algerian grandmother’s face, Yasmin Bendaas (’13) wanted to know more about how this custom began, and why it is disappearing. With the help of the Richter Scholarship and a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting fellowship, Bendaas spent the summer in Algeria researching.
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Student Storyteller: Business Abroad
September 24, 2012 | Faculty, For Parents, International, School of Business, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
This past summer Amy DeSalvo enrolled in ACC 221. What made this accounting class different than a regular semester-long class was the chance to study abroad and fulfill a degree requirement in one summer term.
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Conservation liberal-arts style
September 17, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Parents, Humanities, International, Sustainability, Top Stories
Forty years from now, the world’s rainforests may be gone and with them our chance for a stable environment. Wake Forest’s JAMAZON celebrates that creative minds from biology to music to history to English can join together to find the answers.
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Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’
September 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, “Of Paper.” The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.
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Shamans, sheikhs and shadow puppets
August 20, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories
From Buddhist shrines to the largest Muslim mosque in Southeast Asia, five Wake Forest students were completely immersed in the diverse religious and social practices that shape Indonesian culture through one of the University’s study-abroad classes.
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Future world leaders at Wake Forest
August 8, 2012 | Admissions, Events, International, Top Stories
For many, the adage that today’s teenagers will be tomorrow’s world leaders is met with trepidation. But for those who lead the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute (BFTF), it’s an opportunity.
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Exploring China
August 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, Admissions, Alumni, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Staff, Top Stories
“We wanted to introduce Wake Forest to China as we look for opportunities to create educational programs in the future,” said Linda McKinnish Bridges, associate dean of admissions. “Not only opportunities for students from China to learn about Wake Forest, but opportunities for Wake Forest students to study abroad or find careers in China.”
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Wake the Himalayas
July 26, 2012 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
High in the Himalayan mountains, nine undergraduate students enrolled in a summer course on culture and communication in India are working with local schools to improve students’ English literacy. Carrie Stokes and Kendall Hack are updating their blogs with news and photos from India. Click to follow their adventures.
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Genocide 17 years later
July 11, 2012 | Faculty, International, Scholars and Scientists, Top Stories
In an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, political science professor and genocide expert Sarah Lischer writes that “future concord depends on the stories we tell” about the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica.
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Ginsburg speaks to law study abroad
July 9, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, School of Law, Speakers, Top Stories
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be a guest lecturer during the School of Law’s Venice and Vienna Study Abroad Programs in the summer of 2012. “We are thrilled that Justice Ginsburg has so graciously agreed to once again share her expertise with our students in our study abroad programs,” said Dean Blake D. Morant.
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