Twelve Wake Forest choral students will join the Munich Symphony Orchestra and The Gloriae dei Cantores choir in performing Mozart’s 'Requiem' during Thursday's Secrest Artist Series event.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest University theatre recently completed a production of John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine.” What made the fall performance surprising? Of the 23 roles available, 11 of them were filled by first-year students.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
As recruiters storm campuses this fall, applicants need new ways to distinguish themselves in a challenging job market. Tracey Watson ('10) never imagined her campus sustainability internship would lead to working with the Centers for Disease Control. Categories: Environment & Sustainability, University Announcements
Even with a struggling economy, high unemployment and thousands protesting American greed, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is optimistic. In a Thursday speech in Wait Chapel, he said resources like wind and solar energy will drive this country to energy independence.Categories: Happening at Wake
The School of Law's Pro Bono Project provides free legal advice and services to community organizations. Recently, it has connected law students with youths in the juvenile-justice system and held Wills Clinics in Pembroke, N.C.Categories: Community Impact, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
When Emily English applied to Wake Forest, she had no idea of the impact that sociology professor Joseph Soares already had made on her life. Soares' research pushed the University toward its test-optional admissions process, which has attracted many students like English. Soares now has a new book detailing the negative impact of standardized tests.
Notre Dame will play Wake Forest in football on Saturday, which — based on those schools' performances in Graduation Success Rate — is the premier showdown of the college-football season. Read more from the Wall Street Journal.Categories: Athletics
Talking about race can be challenging. Art professor David Finn, with the help of both Wake Forest and local high school students, is creating a space where people can learn to celebrate their differences.
As part of an innovative bioethics seminar, nine Wake Forest graduate students in the Master of Arts in Bioethics Program recently performed “The Burial Society” — a case study representing the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis.Categories: Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Seniors Ryan McCarthy and Sarah Wheeler used their stage talents this past summer to help improve reading comprehension for children at an orphanage in Peru. Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements