WFU in the News: May 9-16
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Selected news clips courtesy of Wake Forest University News & CommunicationsFor Wake Forest’s Class of 2022, tomorrow is more important than yesterday
On a beautiful, sunny, spring day, more than 2,200 Wake Forest University graduates and their families filled Hearn Plaza to celebrate commencement.Categories: Happening at Wake
Traffic detours for May 16 Wake Forest commencement
Wake Forest University will be closed to through traffic for its commencement ceremony on Monday, May 16, from 5:30 a.m. until the ceremony ends at around noon. Parking passes and commencement tickets are required to enter campus.Categories: Happening at Wake
State constitutions in the spotlight as U.S. Supreme Court reconsiders Roe v. Wade
Reversing Roe v. Wade and declaring that the U.S. Constitution does not protect abortion rights would return the issue to the 50 states and put the spotlight on state constitutions.Categories: Experts
WFU student and faculty-led groups help support local refugees
While those abroad at Wake Forest’s Flow House in Vienna, Austria, were helping Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter away from their home nation, students, faculty and staff on the University’s Reynolda Campus were doing the same for refugees in Winston-Salem.Categories: University Announcements
WFU in the news: May 2-8
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Van Jones to deliver 2022 Commencement address
Van Jones, CNN host and Dream Corps founder, will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address on Monday, May 16. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University will be University's baccalaureate speaker.Categories: University Announcements
Sociology class uses 1950 Census to create work history family trees
When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
WFU in the news: April 25-May 1
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Two WFU seniors awarded NSF grants for graduate studies
Wake Forest seniors Maya Dalton and Joe McCalmon have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Categories: Awards & Recognition