Senior Orations
Categories: Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
President Hatch: The virtue and vice of ambition
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?Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Wake Forest graduates 1,600 students
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.Bill Leonard: The power of ‘un-naming’
Divinity school dean Bill Leonard, in his sermon to graduates at the Baccalaureate service in Wait Chapel May 16, encouraged them to "un-name" racism and evil and embrace "names like gentle, merciful, pure in heart and peacemaker."Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
New approach to career development
Wake Forest is reimagining its career-development program to focus on pairing students’ values with their professional paths, part of the University’s broader strategic priority of vocational and character development.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Seniors leave behind lasting projects that will continue to have an impact on campus and beyond
Some seniors, in the spirit of Pro Humanitate, have left legacies at Wake Forest that will last long after the last tasseled cap falls on Hearn Plaza. Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Despite near-fatal accident, Amber Kirby graduates with her class
Kirby, a third-year student in the Wake Forest University School of Law, had gone home to Mount Olive, N.C. — about halfway between Raleigh and Wilmington — for fall break. She and a childhood friend were on a back road in Duplin County. Just out for a drive.
Categories: Experiential Learning
What’s on your bucket list?
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Teaching middle-schoolers to love cell science
If the nation's ability to remain an economic power rests in the hands of today's middle-school students, then the future looks bright.
A new tool developed at Wake Forest — a video game called CellCraft — will be featured May 12 at the White House in the inaugural celebration of National Lab Day.Professor Pat Roberts retires after teaching students the importance of words
Despite numerous run-ins with cars over the years, Pat Roberts still has a passion for running and cycling. Now that she’s retired from the School of Law, she may be trading her road bike for a mountain bike and heading to the wilds of Southern Utah to explore the sandstone and red-rock desert where her daughter gives guided mountain bike tours.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements