Almost every university has a mentoring program — independent initiatives hosted by campus life or student development. Wake Forest is one of the first higher education institutions in the nation to adopt a campus-wide model.
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Student co-authors radiology study
May 15th, 2012 | Research, School of Medicine, Student, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest senior Roman Nelson co-authored a study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center that was published in the Journal of American College of Radiology.
Making bioethics personal
May 14th, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Humanities, School of Medicine, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College
The undergraduate and graduate students in Comm 370 spent the spring semester pondering a bioethics case study surrounding organ transplants and patient selection while also enhancing their communications skills by learning how to perform the material as a radio play.
Taking journalism overseas
May 11th, 2012 | International, Recognition, Research, Student, Wake Forest College
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.
Summer study in Haiti and Mexico
May 10th, 2012 | Admissions, International, Student, Wake Forest College
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.
Stress relief during exam week
May 9th, 2012 | Events, Student
This semester’s exam week Wake the Library features beach-themed decorations to provide inspiration amid hours of serious final exam studying.
Mentors guide students beyond the books
May 9th, 2012 | Mentoring, Staff, Student
Wake Forest University students and alumni usually have stories to tell about the close relationships they develop with faculty and staff members during their time on campus. Is it our low teacher-student ratio? Our devotion to Pro Humanitate? Decide for yourself as you look beyond the books.
Off to Africa
May 8th, 2012 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, International, Pro Humanitate, Student
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.
Music, movies and meaning
May 4th, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, Student, Wake Forest College
Music professor and concert pianist Pamela Howland uses film clips and movie soundtracks to teach students classical music conventions. Her mission? For Brahms and Beethoven to join Beyonce on iPod playlists.
Moving pictures: ‘From Self to Other’
May 3rd, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Events, Student, Wake Forest College
START, Wake Forest’s student art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of projection and monitor-based works produced by professor Joel Tauber’s video art students. Works from four different classes will be on display.