What started as an idea for an iPad application by professors A. Daniel Johnson and Jed Macosko evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks called “BioBook.” The project will be funded by a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
How do you take a small story and make it big? Two documentary film students started with a story about a man breaking the law by handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless people, and created the award-winning film, “Civil Indigent.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus Wednesday to paint their very own desk. Wake Forest students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 11 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
More than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for Farrell Hall, a new home for the Schools of Business, on Friday at the building site across from Poteat Field, near the Polo Road entrance to campus.Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg's communications class are putting what they've learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
For as long as he can remember, senior biology major William Oelsner wanted to be a physician. Then he discovered that by joining science know-how and business savvy, he could improve lives more than one patient at a time.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
On April 4, more than 250 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children who face challenges while trying to gain access to education — such as walking to school without shoes.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
To chart a course of action for the protection of American Indian land rights, scholars, policy makers and community members will gather to consider issues such as environmental pollution and the protection of sacred sites.
President Nathan O. Hatch announced today that Jill Tiefenthaler will step down as provost to become the 13th president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her resignation as provost will be effective June 30, 2011.Categories: University Announcements
Officials at Wake Forest learned April 1 that the university is one of 12 applicants to host one of the debates to be sponsored and produced in 2012 by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Categories: University Announcements