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‘Love, Money and Work’
September 10, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Events, For Parents, Highlights, Life on Campus, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.
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Events open the gates
July 23, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Scholars and Scientists, Speakers, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A look back at events on campus last year includes a conference for higher education administrators to contemplate what success means for college graduates, writers sharing their craft, and technological and entrepreneurial innovation through a variety of speakers.
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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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We have something very special here
April 11, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
More than 2,000 people filled Wait Chapel to hear former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “Rethinking Success” keynote address about the state of America and the role of higher education. For junior Taylor Parsons (’13), a classical studies and philosophy double major, her advice struck a chord.
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Ergen to speak at commencement
April 3, 2012 | Alumni, Commencement, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories, University Announcement
Charlie Ergen, the chairman of satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corporation and EchoStar Communications Corporation, will deliver the commencement address on May 21. Jonathan T.M. Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, will deliver the baccalaureate address.
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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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Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame.
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Son seeks father, finds literary and artistic avant-garde
March 26, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers
Words Awake!, the three-day symposium showcasing Wake Forest’s literary legacy, launched with a spectacular start Friday evening when Tom Hayes (’79) premiered his documentary film, “Editor Uncut,” about his father, Harold Hayes (’48), who as editor of Esquire (1963-1973) marshaled the talent that established the magazine as the disquieting mirror of its age.
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Student Storyteller: Art and chemistry
March 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
As I listened to Roald Hoffmann’s introduction, I was mesmerized by his ability to excel in chemistry, poetry and philosophy. In Hoffmann’s hour-long address as part of the Oakley R. Vail Lecture Series, I learned how these different fields, and really any fields, can intertwine.
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Reynolda Film Festival 2012
March 19, 2012 | Community, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
The student-run festival includes a free week-long series of film screenings and workshops and ends on March 23 with a keynote address by Morgan Spurlock, the director of “Super Size Me.”
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