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Taking a break to build communities
March 19, 2014 | Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Uncategorized
This past week, more than 100 Wake Forest students spent their spring break hard at work in the spirit of Pro Humanitate in cities across the country. In the past five years, Wake Alternative Break (WAB) has doubled the number of service trips it offers.
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Basketball and books
March 14, 2014 | Community, Faculty, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Talking about sports on Thursday afternoons is helping a group of high school students become better readers. Education professor Alan Brown and graduate student Jordan Daniels (’14) started a sports and literacy group for students at Southwest Guilford High School.
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Painting robot lends surgeons a hand
February 3, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Arts & Culture, Humanities, Mentoring, National, Online, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
Would you let an artist perform life-saving surgery on you? You might someday, if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee (’16) built a robotic painting arm that could one day lend doctors a hand in practicing complex, robot-assisted surgeries without having to step foot in an operating room.
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Plotting a green career path
January 10, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: OPCD, 2014 Highlights: Research, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014
A new masters program created by Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, the Environment & Sustainability (CEES) will give students and early career professionals the diverse skillset they need to carve out a place in the burgeoning global sustainable business market.
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Student Storyteller: A Stroke of Service
December 30, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Junior Bailey Godwin reflects upon her semester abroad in New Zealand and Cambodia, where she combined her passion for neuroscience research and her dedication to Pro Humanitate.
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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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Imagining the next ‘big idea’
December 9, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
James Beshara (’08), CEO and co-founder of Crowdtilt, a social group-funding platform, came to campus to meet with student innovators and shared ideas with faculty on how to prepare students to launch start-ups after graduation.
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A legacy of peace
December 6, 2013 | Alumni, Faculty, International, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Wake Forest students, alumni, faculty and staff remember Nelson Mandela, an icon of freedom who embodied the spirit of Pro Humanitate, and reflect upon his influence on their own lives.
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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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