Student Storyteller: energy and diplomacy
This summer, junior Alex Buchholz lived in Azerbaijan and studied the relationship of energy and political outcomes in Central Asia. His research focused on the political ‘game’ newly independent states, Russia, and the United States have played over the control of oil and gas reserves.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Senior Brian Shoemaker is helping a national team of scientists answer a million-dollar question: Could a substance that resembles baby powder curb global carbon emissions?
LENS @ Wake Forest has given 38 high school students from 15 states and Puerto Rico a sneak-peek at college life, service and the opportunity to study sustainability and apply this knowledge to the community.
Law professor Tanya Marsh recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding the impact of Dodd-Frank. Her testimony was based on a report she co-authored with Joseph Norman (’12), her former student who is now an attorney in Charlotte, N.C.
Since early June, senior history major Leah Schenkel has been working with blind and visually impaired children at A Brighter Path Foundation’s Summer Enrichment Experience camp as one of 16 interns in the 2013 Summer Nonprofit Immersion Program, which is run by Wake Forest's Institute for Public Engagement.
“I’m only 10 days into this program, but I already know I’m making friends for life,” Simone Watson (MA ’14) said. “The students and faculty here are incredibly kind and supportive of each other.”
In June, sophomore Jamal Garcia participated in a weeklong service project to help clean up the Gateway National Recreation Area, which was severely damaged by superstorm Sandy. Although 5,000 miles from home, Garcia has brought his love for the land to the East Coast and Wake Forest.
Jamie Floyd has come up with a new way to teach music theory. The rising senior is using an Xbox Kinect and a visual programming language called Max to help people recognize different pitches of sound.