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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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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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Mastering business, quickly
April 21, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Business, Top Stories
Wake Forest’s one-year master’s of arts in management, which requires no previous work experience and aims to help students apply their liberal arts and sciences “passion” to business, is on the leading edge of a national movement.
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Godfrey leads tornado relief drive
April 21, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior football player Dennis Godfrey, a native of Sanford, N.C., has helped mobilize the campus to collect food and clothing to donate to the state’s tornado victims. Items can be donated at 5 p.m. today in front of Wait Chapel. Godfrey and friends will deliver the items Friday.
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Mathematics’ Kirkman wins award
April 20, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Longtime mathematics professor Ellen Kirkman has received an award for outstanding service from the Mathematical Association of America. She received the MAA’s Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award for her long service to Wake Forest and to the MAA.
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