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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Using the creative arts to heal the mind
April 4, 2011 | Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Role playing, writing or drawing what one is feeling can have significant therapeutic value. Counseling professor Samuel T. Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71) is one of the country’s leading authorities on how using the creative arts — music, dance, visual art, humor, drama and writing — can help people become more in tune with their emotions and feelings.
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Reading aloud
March 30, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
As an undergraduate studying abroad at Oxford, Jessica Richard was introduced to tutorial-style grading. Now on the other side of the desk, she uses the “paper conference” as a way to help her students learn to become better writers.
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The killing field
March 29, 2011 | Admissions, For Parents, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior chemistry major Allison Faig and professors Bruce King and Patricia Dos Santos are researching how antibiotics destroy dangerous bacteria in the body — hoping their work will lead to the development of new weapons against disease.
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Talking with children after a disaster
March 17, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
As images of the devastation in Japan fill television screens, it’s important for parents to take the time to address whatever questions and fears their children may have about an earthquake or tsunami affecting their lives, says psychology professor and child-development expert Deborah L. Best (’70, MA ’72).
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Education program responds to challenging times
February 28, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
With school systems across the nation contemplating deep job cuts because of budget shortfalls, it could be a challenging year for students looking for teaching jobs, but Wake Forest’s education program is well positioned to weather the storm and help its graduates find teaching positions.
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Inspiring student involvement
February 21, 2011 | For Parents, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded “Involve—A Journal of Mathematics,” the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.
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Funky and fun
January 24, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
In Abraham Inc., Klezmer, funk and hip-hop come together in a surprising musical collaboration. Associate Professor of English Dean Franco talks about why this Secrest Artists Series performance defies cultural boundaries.
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Hands on art
January 20, 2011 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, Events, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in professor Bernadine Barnes’s History of Prints class chose the theme and prints for the Los Suenos exhibition opening today in the campus art gallery. The display tells a short story about three Spanish artists: Goya, Miro and Picasso.
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Physics for the future
December 6, 2010 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
By 2015, plastic flexible electronics is estimated to be a $30 billion market, according to Oana Jurchescu, assistant professor of physics. Jurchescu and her undergraduate students are working together on the development of these technologies in her lab.
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