Nancy Aguillon, a Wake Forest senior, and Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services at Wake Forest, were recognized as this year’s Martin Luther King Building the Dream Award winners. The MLK Dream Award recognizes those who exemplify King’s qualities and promote diversity within the community.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
In a Ferris Bueller moment, Greg Murr's post graduate plans took a turn to Albuquerque, N.M., for graduate school, which propelled him on a course to Italy, New York City and Germany. Now Murr ('93) has returned to Wake Forest to teach printmaking as a visiting faculty member. His art is part of a faculty exhibition at the Hanes Art Gallery.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The University enhances its efforts toward creating a diverse, inclusive, and inquisitive community this month with the opening of its new Women’s Center, which will be directed by Paige Meltzer.Categories: Campus Life, University Announcements
It could be the motto that we hold so dear: Pro Humanitate. Or the enviably low student-teacher ratio of 11 to 1. Or the teacher-scholar tradition that our faculty embraces. Whatever the reason, mentoring at Wake Forest goes to a whole new level. Read some of the best stories from 2012.
Using an online computer game that simulates the spread of an infectious disease among its players, researchers learned more about what motivates people to protect themselves from infection.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
University Trustee Graham W. Denton Jr. (’67), who held numerous volunteer leadership roles with the University and the Medical Center during the last 20 years, has died.Categories: Alumni
Many of the University's long-standing campus traditions began with student inspiration -- and there's always room for new ideas. Throughout the academic year, students, faculty and staff support each other in leadership, service, fellowship and fun.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Humanistic inquiry is at the heart of Wake Forest's liberal arts tradition. Together, faculty and students bring to life scholarly and undergraduate research, campus and community programming, and interdisciplinary activities that connect the humanities with science, social science and artistic fields. Here are some of last year's highlights.Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements