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Pauca named Top 20 Innovator
September 18, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For Hispanic Heritage Month, NBC Latino is featuring people who have not only made incredible strides in their careers but also pioneered change in the country. Wake Forest’s Paul Pauca was honored for developing Verbal Victor, an app to help children with communication challenges.
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Talking Tech in Winston-Salem
September 18, 2012 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Daniel Kim-Shapiro, physicist and director of Wake Forest’s Translational Science Center, will offer beet juice samples after his talk at the upcoming Technology Briefing, which highlights innovative local companies and institutions. Three others with WFU ties also will present.
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Conservation liberal-arts style
September 17, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Parents, Humanities, International, Sustainability, Top Stories
Forty years from now, the world’s rainforests may be gone and with them our chance for a stable environment. Wake Forest’s JAMAZON celebrates that creative minds from biology to music to history to English can join together to find the answers.
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Academics, athletics and integrity
September 17, 2012 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, National, President, Top Stories
President Nathan Hatch is involved in decisions at the highest levels of collegiate athletics and academics today. He recently sat down to discuss the latest developments in intercollegiate sports, leadership and academics.
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Faces of Courage: Ed Reynolds
September 14, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
In September 1962, a Ghana native named Ed Reynolds (’64) became the first black full-time undergraduate to attend Wake Forest. Fifty years later, Reynolds comes come back to campus to mark the anniversary of the integration of Wake Forest as part of “Faces of Courage: Celebrating 50 Years of Integration.”
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Telling stories, building bridges
September 14, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Student, Top Stories
Refugees, ballad singers, classic car collectors and victims of forced sterilization —Wake Forest third-year documentary film students have spent the last year working on movies that show what life is like from these different perspectives.
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Congress awards gold to Palmer
September 13, 2012 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Top Stories
Wake Forest golf icon Arnold Palmer received the Congressional Gold Medal at a special ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 12. The medal is the highest civilian award in the U.S., along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Palmer received in 2004.
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U.S. News ranks WFU 13th in teaching
September 12, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching. The list highlights “schools where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
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Harris-Perry: Question yourself, political process
September 11, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her own MSNBC show and a 1994 Wake Forest graduate, encouraged students to ask, “What difference does that make?” in her address “Only Youthful Folly Can Make Democracy Real” on Sept. 10 in Wait Chapel.
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‘Love, Money and Work’
September 10, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Events, For Parents, Highlights, Life on Campus, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.
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