A fascination with physics put Claire McLellan, a junior from Winchester, Va., on a path to win a Goldwater Scholarship. McLellan was recently selected as one of 275 students from around the country to earn the scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Bill McKibben, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, "End of Nature," was the first to address global warming, will talk Tuesday at Reynolda Gardens and Wait Chapel. Wake Forest's new Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability is sponsoring the visit.Categories: Happening at Wake
Kelsey Zalimeni made a dress out of discarded fast-food paper as part of an exhibit of "green" art at the START gallery. Zalimeni is a recipient of the Karyn Dingledine Scholarship in Art and is pictured with (from left) Trustee Tom and Karyn Dingledine and her mother, Lori. [Video]Categories: Arts & Culture, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Dennis Godfrey is a rising senior on Wake Forest's football team, and he is also from Sanford, which had parts of it torn apart by a tornado. So Godfrey organized a relief drive on campus to collect items he plans to drive home. [Video]
Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Are we any closer to finding strategies for combining sustainable principles with everyday decision-making? Starting with simple changes is the first step to tackling more complex challenges.Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability
Wake Forest's one-year master’s of arts in management, which requires no previous work experience and aims to help students apply their liberal arts and sciences “passion” to business, is on the leading edge of a national movement.Categories: University Announcements
Senior football player Dennis Godfrey, a native of Sanford, N.C., has helped mobilize the campus to collect food and clothing to donate to the state's tornado victims. Items can be donated at 5 p.m. today in front of Wait Chapel. Godfrey and friends will deliver the items Friday. Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
Longtime mathematics professor Ellen Kirkman has received an award for outstanding service from the Mathematical Association of America. She received the MAA's Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award for her long service to Wake Forest and to the MAA.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Mentorship, Research & Discovery