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Student Storyteller: Forum for black male students
May 2, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Kevin Smith, a senior from Wilson, N.C., shares his experience with M4, a group that brings together male African-American students to talk about contemporary issues.
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Excellence in Entrepreneurship
May 1, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
“You have to be a true visionary. It’s something that has to come from within,” said Deepa Pakianathan (MA ’90, PhD ’93), the 2012 recipient of the Excellence in Entrepreneurship award given at the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship annual awards banquet.
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Making a splash with middle school students
April 30, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On most Saturday mornings, the pool in Reynolds Gym is filled with just a few people swimming laps. But on April 28, it was filled with underwater robots built by students at Hanes Magnet School, thanks to a partnership with Wake Forest’s Society of Physics Students.
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Goodwill and good health
April 30, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Recognition, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Grace Wandell first dreamed of becoming an international representative when she was 7 years old. Her aspiration has come true. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she will head to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this fall to earn a Masters Degree in Global Health.
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The science of dance
April 27, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior chemistry major Tara Seymour (’12) has been dancing since she was 4. She never imagined she would be dancing out the process of DNA replication until the opportunity arose to participate in Movement and the Molecular, the first class where chemistry meets dance taught at Wake Forest.
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Fathers & daughters: not a textbook case
April 26, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When Mike Bevan’s father died suddenly last year, he dutifully stepped into a family leadership role. He also enrolled in “Fathers and Daughters,” the only known college class in the country devoted exclusively to dad-daughter relationships, to help his sister cope with their loss.
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Faces of Courage kickoff
April 25, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
On April 27, 1962, trustees voted to end racial segregation at Wake Forest and the University became the first major private college in the South to integrate. Fifty years later, Wake Forest kicks off “Faces of Courage,” a yearlong celebration of the historic decision and how it has shaped the University.
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Phi Beta Kappa recognition
April 25, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On April 18, sixty-two seniors, twenty-three juniors and one alumna were inducted into Wake Forest’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — the nations oldest academic honor society.
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Physics student gets NSF fellowship
April 24, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.
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Painting desks for local students
April 23, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.
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