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Each of us can make a difference
January 24, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien delivered the keynote address for the 12th annual Wake Forest/Winston-Salem State Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. O’Brien told stories of the early days of her career, when she faced overt racial prejudice — comparing her experiences to today’s often more subtle forms of racism.
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Lovefeast draws thousands
December 5, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Top Stories
More than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members filled Wait Chapel, passing to each other the light from beeswax candles — a tradition that the earliest Moravians used at the Christmas lovefeast. Watch the audio slideshow of Lovefeast.
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Turkeypalooza 2011
November 23, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
North Carolina has one of the highest rates of food hardship in the country. To ease the hunger and share the holiday, students cooked and delivered over 200 Thanksgiving meals to members of the Winston-Salem community.
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‘Rake’ Forest
November 22, 2011 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
On Saturday, Nov. 12, when they could have been resting and catching up on much-needed sleep, about 120 Wake Forest students volunteered their day to participate in “Rake” Forest, working in neighborhoods around campus.
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Ethics in research
November 8, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Speakers, Top Stories
This summer, incoming first-year students to Wake Forest University completed an academic project involving writings by Dr. James Jones on bioethics, medical research, and ethics. Now Jones, the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, comes to campus all week for the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society’s conference.
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Project Pumpkin circus fun
October 26, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
The 23rd annual Project Pumpkin Halloween festival provided an afternoon of Halloween fun for more than 1,000 Winston-Salem area children. The event was organized by students and sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps.
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Class of the finest: Retiring faculty
May 16, 2011 | Commencement, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Recognition, School of Divinity, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Nine professors — in art, counseling, divinity, economics, history, religion, journalism, classical languages and East Asian languages — are retiring this year, after leaving an indelible mark on generations of students dating back to the 1970s.
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Students explore work at Wake Forest
May 13, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class took a closer look at the work of Wake Forest staff and faculty this semester as part of their study of the history of work in America. Read and listen as staff members describe working at Wake Forest.
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Then and now
May 12, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
From first-year student to graduating senior — students from religion professor Lynn Neal’s first-year seminar class look back on how they’ve changed in four years.
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Chasing away the exam blues
April 29, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Kites, balloons, food and decorations. Sounds like a party, and, in a sense, it is — Wake the Library is a semiannual tradition that heralds the start of exam-week frenzy.
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