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The green-conscious consumer
April 22, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories
Are we any closer to finding strategies for combining sustainable principles with everyday decision-making? Starting with simple changes is the first step to tackling more complex challenges.
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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Students explore health-care careers
April 1, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized
Betsy Martin has wanted to be a doctor since volunteering at the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in her hometown of Shelby, N.C., when she was in high school. Now a junior at Wake Forest, Martin had the opportunity Thursday to explore a variety of medical careers during the University’s first Health Care Career Expo.
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Faculty, staff offer spiritual mentoring
February 20, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Top Stories
Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.
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Refuge for exam week
December 6, 2010 | Audiences, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
Z. Smith Reynolds Library provides much more than just coffee and study space in an effort to cut down on the stress level of students during exams.
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Homelessness is not faceless
November 15, 2010 | Audiences, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Junior Amy Liang, through her work with Wake Forest’s Campus Kitchen, has seen the problems of the hungry and homeless. Last summer, she conducted a research project, which included creating a documentary film, to raise awareness of the issues.
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A vast history
November 4, 2010 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Wake Forest and the Wake Forest Native American Student Association (NASA) have planned several events this November.
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Paperless debate
November 1, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, National, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest’s nationally competitive debate team moved from paper evidence files to digital this year, allowing it to become the first top-tier debate team in the country to go “open source” and share all its evidence and arguments online.
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Expressions of humanity
October 21, 2010 | Community, For Parents, International, Life on Campus, National, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
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Thoughtful about food
October 13, 2010 | Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
The Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste. One possible solution is an organic waste recycling system that works as a dehydrator.
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