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Research Day highlights ‘big time’ research by students
October 11, 2016 | Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Undergraduate Research Day, a hallmark campus event at Wake Forest University, celebrated its 10-year milestone Friday, Oct. 7 in a new space, Z. Smith Reynolds Library’s atrium.
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Chemistry major earns Beckman Scholar award
June 14, 2016 | Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Staff, Student
KyungMin Yoo, a rising junior who is majoring in chemistry, has been selected as Wake Forest’s fifth Beckman Scholar. As part of the Beckman Scholars Program, Yoo will spend two summers working on research related to wound-healing with chemistry professor Mark Welker. She has been working in Welker’s lab for a year.
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Physics students win prestigious awards
April 7, 2016 | Mentoring, Recognition, Research, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Undergraduate and graduate students working in Oana Jurchescu’s physics research lab earn a Goldwater Scholarship and the Materials Research Society’s Gold award.
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Wake Forest one of ‘50 Colleges That Create Futures’
September 8, 2015 | Admissions, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Wake Forest University is featured in “Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom” — a new Princeton Review book highlighting the nation’s best institutions.
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Careers get real in D.C.
July 27, 2015 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories
Sixty-two undergrads with 19 different majors traveled to Washington this summer to learn the ins and outs of careers in banking, politics, real estate and more from 40 Wake Forest alumni who’ve settled in the nation’s capital.
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Beyond the comfort zone
June 18, 2015 | Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest’s emphasis on the liberal arts allows two science students to pursue research outside the comfort zone of their majors.
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Pursuit of science
June 12, 2015 | Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories
From precious metal-based pharmaceuticals to a queen bee’s mandibular pheromone, two Wake Forest students will be on the trail of new science discoveries as they are mentored in professors’ labs.
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Students awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships
April 7, 2015 | Mentoring, Research, Scholars, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest University senior Abdulmalik Obaid has earned the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which sends recipients to the University of Cambridge in England to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree.
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Changing the world with $5,000
February 6, 2015 | Campus Life, Events, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories
As part of the Leadership Project, Nancy Lublin, founder of Dress for Success and Dosomething.org, offered advice on launching startups and leading organizations with the purpose of making life better for people in need.
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WFU grads are launching careers
January 29, 2015 | For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories
With 98 percent of the Class of 2014 either employed or in graduate school, the numbers show that resources invested in career development have measurable results. But the first job after college is just one step in the journey toward a meaningful life.
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