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Student Storyteller: Wake Radio
November 9, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Kory Riemensperger (’13) found a community when he joined Wake Radio as a first-year student. Now one of the largest and fastest-growing student organizations on campus, Wake Radio has given him experience he values as much as his academic achievements.
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Student Storyteller: The Japanese tea ceremony and insight into modern life
October 30, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
It was a small group that gathered on Saturday afternoon to experience a Japanese tea ceremony. What could this tranquil tradition teach us about modern day life as we sat around the tatami mats?
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Student Storyteller: Vanishing Ink
October 8, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity, Wake Forest College
Inspired by the tattoos on her Algerian grandmother’s face, Yasmin Bendaas (’13) wanted to know more about how this custom began, and why it is disappearing. With the help of the Richter Scholarship and a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting fellowship, Bendaas spent the summer in Algeria researching.
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Student Storyteller: Old alma mater’s sons are we
September 6, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Senior Peter Chawaga will never forget certain things about his first football game as a Demon Deacon. The enthusiasm surrounding games prompted his nostalgia for University traditions, but the home opener against Liberty was really just a backdrop for the pride that wells up inside all Wake Foresters collectively.
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Student Storyteller: Unconventional class
May 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Marshall Shaffer, a first-year student from Houston, Texas, shares his thoughts on the behind-the-scenes look he and other students in Hana Brown’s “Political Sociology” class got at preparations for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
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Student Storyteller: Forum for black male students
May 2, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Kevin Smith, a senior from Wilson, N.C., shares his experience with M4, a group that brings together male African-American students to talk about contemporary issues.
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Student Storyteller: Relating physics to the real world
April 18, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Physics major Claire McLellan (’12) understands her course of study can seem impractical and hard to connect to the outside world. On April 20, Nobel Laureate William Phillips will underscore the importance of connecting the classroom to the community in event that is free and open to the public.
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Student Storyteller: Art and chemistry
March 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
As I listened to Roald Hoffmann’s introduction, I was mesmerized by his ability to excel in chemistry, poetry and philosophy. In Hoffmann’s hour-long address as part of the Oakley R. Vail Lecture Series, I learned how these different fields, and really any fields, can intertwine.
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Student Storyteller: Service in Vietnam
February 13, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Kristen Bryant, a senior sociology major from Augusta, Ga., joined ten other students helping to build homes in Vietnam during a two-week international service trip.
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Student Storyteller: Service trip guides career path
January 4, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For most of senior Meredith-Leigh Pleasants’ young adult life, she was sure that she would follow the straight and narrow career path. But her journey took a right turn in the summer of 2011 after she spent three weeks in Zinkwazi, South Africa.
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