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A memorable weekend
October 23, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Will
Under a big tent on Manchester Plaza, students and alumni wrote about the Wake Forest people who have inspired them on a book standing more than 10 feet tall. The outsized pages reflect the big dreams Wake Forest will achieve with “Wake Will: The Campaign for Wake Forest.” Relive the highlights of the weekend events.
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Big moment on campus
October 18, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories 2013-2014, University Announcement, Wake Will
“Wake Will: The Campaign for Wake Forest” represents the largest mobilization of support for the mission of Wake Forest in the institution’s 179-year history. Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will significantly increase their impact on the region, the nation and the world by investing $1 billion over the next five years to strengthen and renew their ability to carry out their respective missions.
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Empowering the voiceless
October 17, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A new kind of hands-free communication device developed by Wake Forest could help people with speech impediments and poor motor control interact with the world around them.
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First in the Forest
October 17, 2013 | Admissions, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
The first in his family to go to college, Joseph Belangia has made it his mission to mentor other first generation students so that they also find their unique place in the Forest.
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From waste to energy
October 16, 2013 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Wake Forest researchers recently developed a sugar-based compound that makes it cheaper and easier to turn low-quality fats and oils into affordable biodiesel.
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University celebrates 25th year of Project Pumpkin
October 16, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Media Advisory
In 1989, a Wake Forest freshman named Libby Bell started a Halloween festival on campus for local children. Twenty-five years later, Project Pumpkin has become a Wake Forest tradition that participating schools and agencies in Winston-Salem look forward to each year. This year, more than […]
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Career take-off and the ‘butterfly effect’
October 11, 2013 | Admissions, Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The butterfly effect states that serendipitous happenings can produce outcomes very different from the ones envisioned. Launching a career after college is often about being in the right place at the right time and being open to the unexpected and the unplanned.
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Wake Foresters “Hit the Bricks”
October 4, 2013 | Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Philanthropy, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears.
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A closer look at who’s behind bars
October 2, 2013 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized
Seventeen students gathered for a conversation about mass incarceration with civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander before she presented a public lecture to more than 1,000 people in Wait Chapel.
Media Advisory: Students, faculty and staff ‘Hit the Bricks’ for Brian Piccolo
October 2, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Media Advisory
In 2003, students at Wake Forest University started a tradition to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. The eight-hour relay race, along the brick pathways on campus, honors Piccolo, an alumnus who attended the University in the 1960s and former Chicago Bears […]
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