Business students win challenge
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ "Taking People With You" Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.
Over three dynamic days, presidents, career office directors, liberal arts deans, and faculty from more than more than 70 colleges and universities came to Wake Forest to share ideas on how to prepare students more effectively for life and work after college.
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.
More than 2,000 people filled Wait Chapel to hear former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “Rethinking Success” keynote address about the state of America and the role of higher education. For junior Taylor Parsons (’13), a classical studies and philosophy double major, her advice struck a chord.
Relationships between faculty and students are a Wake Forest cornerstone. While such connections are made every day, the annual Big Campus Connect – a weeklong series of events promoting faculty-student engagement in informal settings – offers an opportunity to put down the textbooks and have fun together outside the classroom.
One might expect that Bill Zandi (’13), the son of Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, an accomplished businessman and Wharton graduate, might follow in his father's footsteps. And in many ways, he is. But Bill has also chosen a different path – to major in philosophy.
Nanomedicine, nanogreen and nanomaterials — Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials is a leader in North Carolina's growing nanoindustry and an emerging revolution.
Students at Wake Forest University learn ways the professional business network LinkedIn can help them prepare for their careers after college.