The battle over mountaintop mining
Toxins found downstream of mountaintop mining sites kill fish and threaten human health, biologist Dennis Lemly said in a TIME magazine article.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Hall of Famer Jack Jensen dies
Jack Jensen (’61), a member of the Wake Forest Hall of Fame who led Guilford College to national championships in men’s golf and basketball during a career that spanned 45 years, has died.
Categories: Community Impact
April 2010 Staff News
Categories: University Announcements
April 2010 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Join the summer business ‘boot camp’
Parents: Encourage your student to go to “boot camp” this summer. The Summer Management Program provides students with valuable business skills in an intensive summer session. From being a team player to learning how to interview, this five-week “business boot camp” elevates a student’s liberal arts education to a whole new playing field, increasing their marketability in today’s highly competitive job market. Students receive 8 hours of course credit.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Making sense of new financial aid rules
Director of Financial Aid Bill Wells will be on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show on Tuesday from 11 a.m. until noon to talk about changes in student loan programs. As part of the healthcare legislation, the federal government will directly issue student loans, eliminating private lenders as middlemen.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Spike Lee: ‘Find something you love’
Spike Lee described his long journey to becoming an acclaimed filmmaker and encouraged students and others attending the Reynolda Film Festival to find something they love doing.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
A unique program: Wake Forest’s entrepreneurship program wins a national award as a model program
The threads that led to a profitable business tie Laura Bullins Lough ('07) to Wake Forest.
She credits the launch of her business, Unique Sheep, to help she received from the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Different shades of green
As colleges and universities prepare students to lead the green jobs revolution, they will take a variety of approaches to integrating sustainability into academics. One shade of green doesn’t suit every college and university, says Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, director of sustainability at Wake Forest. Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability
Professor discusses Chilean relief efforts
Political science professor Peter Siavelis, who has lived and conducted research in Chile, talks to WFDD about the aftermath of the major earthquake that hit the country in February.
Categories: Global Wake Forest