Expanded Deacon Shop opens at mall
The Deacon Shop at Hanes Mall has reopened after expanding its store to offer more new styles of merchandise and more space for customers to shop.
Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
August 2010 Staff News
Doug Bland, an associate athletic director, is celebrating 35 years of service this month, while Zella Johnson, an administrative assistant in the biology department, is celebrating 30 years of service. More anniversaries and news in this month’s Staff News.
Categories: University Announcements
A senior mentor
Decades of working with undergraduates in his chemistry research has earned chemistry professor Ron Noftle national recognition.Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
What do you see in the Andes?
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Secrest series features eclectic mix
From a Grammy-award winning chamber orchestra to a Norwegian jazz pianist, Wake Forest’s 2010-2011 Secrest Artists Series will feature an eclectic offering of musical genres, beginning with Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” in September.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
1,240 first-year students join the Wake Forest community
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
A handbook for college parents
Retired business professor Helen Akinc explains in her new book, “The Praeger Handbook for College Parents,” how parents can help get their children through college.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
New plan to strengthen campus life
Wake Forest is improving residential life to preserve the health and safety of students; create an engaged and inclusive community; emphasize the primacy of the academic endeavor; and encourage students to live lives of meaning and worth.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Undergraduate orientation begins today
About 1,240 first-year students are moving onto campus today. The new class is made up of 22 percent North Carolinians, 22 percent students of color and 3 percent international students.
University ranks 12th in teaching quality
Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”