Law students take on case
Law-school students working with professor Carol Turowski and Wake Forest's Innocence and Justice Clinic are investigating the innocence claim of a former Winston-Salem man who has been convicted twice of killing his lover’s husband in South Carolina.
Dion Williams, a former Wake Forest football player, has gone from not knowing anything about cars to becoming one of the best rear-tire carriers in NASCAR. He appeared Sunday on the TV show "Undercover Boss."
The School of Law’s Pro Bono Project will host David Smith (’84) for a discussion on the importance of pro bono work as part of this week's National Pro Bono Week. Smith will speak at noon on Tuesday.
When senior Caroline Dignes designs costumes for a play, she helps create a world for actors and audience alike. Her latest project is Moliere’s “Imaginary Cuckold,” which opens this week in the Mainstage Theatre.
A group of Schools of Business students received advice on how to be an effective leader from Susan Ivey, who became one of corporate America’s most prominent female executives during her time at Reynolds American Inc.
Researchers at Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have developed an inexpensive new light source that’s cool to the touch, won’t break if dropped, and can be molded into any shape.
Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
Ten students spent fall break on a service trip to Cove Creek Farm, a residential retreat for at-risk young men and their families near Boone, N.C. Wake Forest has traditionally offered spring break service trips, but this was the first fall break service trip offered by the university.
"Single Threads Unbraided,” a celebration of the poetry, art and letters of A.R. Ammons will be held Nov. 15–16 at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
As high school students apply to college this fall, Wake Forest's Director of Admissions Martha Allman offers interviewing tips.