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A second successful TEDxWakeForestU
February 25, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Provost, Speakers, Staff, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
A successful second TEDxWakeForestU turns an experiment into a spring semester tradition. What did attendees think of this year’s event? Read their ideas captured through social media.
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TEDxWakeForestU: Defining our future
February 20, 2013 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Provost, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
What will define our future? Will it be our ability to share through social media, our quest to use Google to escape memorization or the impact our consumer society will have on the environment? The highly successful TEDxWakeForestU returns to Wake Forest on Feb. 23 to tackle these topics.
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Student Storyteller: Life lessons from the City of Joy
February 5, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
Danielle Gallant, a senior sociology major, traveled to India to lead a group of 10 students volunteering in the University’s City of Joy program. She shares her reasons for going and what she learned from working with the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
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Design thinking
December 17, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
In the quest to build a better mousetrap, the usual approach would include schematics, engineering and experimentation – generally following the scientific method. But if you put on your “design thinking” cap, you might ponder these questions: What attracts mice? Is catching them the solution?
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Dinner and an ethical dilemma
November 19, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Students in Pat Lord’s Bio 367 Virology class helped create a new program designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills about bioethics outside the classroom. And it all started with dinner … and a movie.
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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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The student-athlete balance
October 12, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Recognition, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Established in 2005, the Dean’s Cup recognizes the Wake Forest athletic team with the highest grade point average each academic year. Recently, men’s track and field/cross country and women’s golf celebrated a three-peat. Each team has captured three consecutive titles.
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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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Hit The Bricks turns 10
October 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Staff, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
When Hit the Bricks began in 2002, it raised about $3,000 and had only a handful of teams participate. Last year, the competition raised more than $26,000 and had 89 teams enroll. This year, a new record of 93 teams ran laps to support the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive.
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Computers in the middle
September 4, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When Wake Forest computer science professors and students introduce new ways to teach computer science to middle school students, the teachers at Hanes Magnet School can’t wait to experiment with technology.
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