Media Advisory: WFU biologists teach genetics with tomatoes in Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools
Categories: University Announcements
U.S. News ranks WFU 13th in teaching
U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching. The list highlights “schools where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Mentorship, University Announcements
Harris-Perry: Question yourself, political process
Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her own MSNBC show and a 1994 Wake Forest graduate, encouraged students to ask, “What difference does that make?” in her address “Only Youthful Folly Can Make Democracy Real” on Sept. 10 in Wait Chapel.
Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake
Media Advisory: Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) Exhibition Opens Sept. 11
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‘Love, Money and Work’
A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.Media Advisory: MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry to speak at Wake Forest
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Conventional Politics
Whether working with CNN, grading speeches, participating in town hall meetings or covering this major political event for the student newspaper, Wake Forest students enjoyed their experiences at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
Student Storyteller: Old alma mater’s sons are we
Senior Peter Chawaga will never forget certain things about his first football game as a Demon Deacon. The enthusiasm surrounding games prompted his nostalgia for University traditions, but the home opener against Liberty was really just a backdrop for the pride that wells up inside all Wake Foresters collectively.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’
Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, "Of Paper." The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Q&A: Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, the Reynolds Professor of American Studies, will be inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame this October. The Old Gold & Black spoke with Angelou about her inspirations, the state of race relations in America and her lesser-known time as a calypso singer.Categories: Research & Discovery