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Making music wins over computer science majors
March 8, 2013 | Campus Life, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A Wake Forest professor finds the key to harmonious computer science studies is to introduce students to technology with digital audio.
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Performance meets liberal arts at IPLACe
November 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
The new Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe) will inspire new ideas and build new connections between the performing arts and other academic departments across the University.
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Understanding Shakespeare
November 2, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories
If all the world were a stage, and all men and women were players, then Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” would be easier to understand. At least that’s what Wake Forest theatre professors say.
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Under the ‘Big Tent’
October 29, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The “Big Tent,” a public art project conceived by Wake Forest art professor David Finn, provided a safe space for students at Mt. Tabor High School to talk openly about ethnic and cultural differences.
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Weaving education, entertainment
October 16, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Mentoring, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Jawad Wahabzada (’14) finds balancing schoolwork and the global promotion of his documentary “Children of Kabul” a challenge, but says taking courses you love and connecting with a good mentor can make a difference.
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Students lobbied to perform ‘Marisol’
October 4, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories
For a post-9/11 generation, José Rivera’s play “Marisol” captures the feeling of living life with the fear that something bad could happen at any time. The play, in its final weekend, kicks-off the 2012-13 Wake Forest Theatre season.
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Sounds like learning
September 26, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Working Together
The ring of a wind chime … the chirping of birds … the start of a car’s engine. Noises like these might blend into the background and go unnoticed for many people. But to the 10 children enrolled in 88.5 WFDD’s summer radio camp, these “natural sounds” function as the first building blocks in producing a proper radio segment.
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Conservation liberal-arts style
September 17, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Parents, Humanities, International, Sustainability, Top Stories
Forty years from now, the world’s rainforests may be gone and with them our chance for a stable environment. Wake Forest’s JAMAZON celebrates that creative minds from biology to music to history to English can join together to find the answers.
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A place where arts and culture flourish
June 28, 2012 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Top Stories
From art exhibitions to dance-offs to film festivals to theatre productions, Wake Forest faculty and students are exercising their talents throughout the school year. Here are some highlights from 2011-2012.
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Art gallery features student work
May 18, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will close the season with its annual Wake Forest Student Art Exhibition through May 21. The exhibition includes works in various media including, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, photography, sculpture and other mediums that bridge or combine these approaches.
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