Chasing away the exam blues
Kites, balloons, food and decorations. Sounds like a party, and, in a sense, it is — Wake the Library is a semiannual tradition that heralds the start of exam-week frenzy. Kites, balloons, food and decorations. Sounds like a party, and, in a sense, it is — Wake the Library is a semiannual tradition that heralds the start of exam-week frenzy.Painting in the Louvre
Imagine standing in the footprints of Mary Cassatt and Paul Cézanne, copying the masters in the Musée du Louvre to improve your artistic talents. Junior Amanda Bowers doesn’t have to imagine. She has been living the experience. Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Preparing for severe weather
In light of recent tornadoes across the South, the University encourages students, staff and faculty to review information on the Wake Alert website relating to tornadoes and other types of severe weather.Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
Ten seniors named WF Fellows
Ten seniors have been named Wake Forest Fellows and will work in the President’s Office, Information Systems, University Advancement and in other offices for the next year.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Inspiring exercise in seniors
A research study by Wake Forest health and exercise science professors led to the development of a national award-winning exercise program to help seniors increase lower body strength at a local retirement community.Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Living the American Dream
“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.The lessons of Vietnam literature
Students in Kathleen McClancy's seminar class are completing their semester-long study of how books and films depicting the Vietnam War created the Vietnam mystique and the sway the war still holds over Americans, 36 years after the war ended. Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Physics major wins Goldwater honor
A fascination with physics put Claire McLellan, a junior from Winchester, Va., on a path to win a Goldwater Scholarship. McLellan was recently selected as one of 275 students from around the country to earn the scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.Climate change pioneer to speak
Bill McKibben, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, "End of Nature," was the first to address global warming, will talk Tuesday at Reynolda Gardens and Wait Chapel. Wake Forest's new Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability is sponsoring the visit.Categories: Happening at Wake
Fast-food dress highlights exhibit
Kelsey Zalimeni made a dress out of discarded fast-food paper as part of an exhibit of "green" art at the START gallery. Zalimeni is a recipient of the Karyn Dingledine Scholarship in Art and is pictured with (from left) Trustee Tom and Karyn Dingledine and her mother, Lori. [Video]Categories: Arts & Culture, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements