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Painting in the Louvre
April 29, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Imagine standing in the footprints of Mary Cassatt and Paul Cézanne, copying the masters in the Musée du Louvre to improve your artistic talents. Junior Amanda Bowers doesn’t have to imagine. She has been living the experience.
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Preparing for severe weather
April 28, 2011 | Community, Top Stories, University Announcement
In light of recent tornadoes across the South, the University encourages students, staff and faculty to review information on the Wake Alert website relating to tornadoes and other types of severe weather.
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Ten seniors named WF Fellows
April 28, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Ten seniors have been named Wake Forest Fellows and will work in the President’s Office, Information Systems, University Advancement and in other offices for the next year.
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Inspiring exercise in seniors
April 27, 2011 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A research study by Wake Forest health and exercise science professors led to the development of a national award-winning exercise program to help seniors increase lower body strength at a local retirement community.
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Living the American Dream
April 27, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.
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The lessons of Vietnam literature
April 26, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in Kathleen McClancy’s seminar class are completing their semester-long study of how books and films depicting the Vietnam War created the Vietnam mystique and the sway the war still holds over Americans, 36 years after the war ended.
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Physics major wins Goldwater honor
April 25, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A fascination with physics put Claire McLellan, a junior from Winchester, Va., on a path to win a Goldwater Scholarship. McLellan was recently selected as one of 275 students from around the country to earn the scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Climate change pioneer to speak
April 25, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
Bill McKibben, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, “End of Nature,” was the first to address global warming, will talk Tuesday at Reynolda Gardens and Wait Chapel. Wake Forest’s new Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability is sponsoring the visit.
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Fast-food dress highlights exhibit
April 22, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Kelsey Zalimeni made a dress out of discarded fast-food paper as part of an exhibit of “green” art at the START gallery. Zalimeni is a recipient of the Karyn Dingledine Scholarship in Art and is pictured with (from left) Trustee Tom and Karyn Dingledine and her mother, Lori. [Video]
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Player leads tornado relief drive
April 22, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Dennis Godfrey is a rising senior on Wake Forest’s football team, and he is also from Sanford, which had parts of it torn apart by a tornado. So Godfrey organized a relief drive on campus to collect items he plans to drive home. [Video]
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