Gielow receives national golf award
Brendan Gielow, who graduated in May, has received the Byron Nelson Award from the Golf Coaches Association of America, recognizing his academic record, character and integrity.
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Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.
Romance languages professor Kendall Tarte has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore how the 16th-century French Wars of Religion affected the writers and literary and visual styles of the time.
The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.
Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.
In his remarks to the graduates, President Nathan O. Hatch talked about the "virtue and vice" of ambition. "How do you relate the drive for achievement, to make a name for yourself, with the commitment to live for the common good — Wake Forest's motto Pro Humanitate?
The odds finally caught up with Wake Forest's Commencement ceremony. For the first time since 1991, rain forced University officials to move the ceremony from Hearn Plaza to Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.