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‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
April 23, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, “Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight,” served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events illuminating dynamic relationships between the arts and sciences.
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Our family trees
April 20, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Sustainability, Top Stories
On April 20, the Arbor Day Foundation honored Wake Forest’s commitment to the care and preservation of its trees with a Tree Campus USA designation. To earn the honor, WFU achieved five core standards for sustainable campus forestry. Read more from Wake Forest Magazine.
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Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
April 20, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.
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Scholars to explore Hispanic studies
April 19, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Top Stories
The Department of Romance Languages is hosting a three-day Hispanic Transatlantic Studies symposium that will bring scholars from a variety of countries to campus to present cutting-edge research in history and the humanities.
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Celebrating the Earth
April 19, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Sustainability, Top Stories
From a cardboard boat race to a panel discussion on fracking to a food activism workshop, Wake Forest’s 10 days of celebrating the earth will engage the campus in thinking about sustainability issues April 19 through April 28. Read more from the Office of Sustainability.
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Wake Alert upgrades for reliability
April 18, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, University Announcement
Wake Forest’s emergency website, Wake Alert, has a new look as the University takes steps intended to bolster the site’s ability to withstand heavy traffic in the event of an emergency. Emergency preparedness information is now available on a new site, Wake Ready.
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Student Storyteller: Relating physics to the real world
April 18, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Physics major Claire McLellan (’12) understands her course of study can seem impractical and hard to connect to the outside world. On April 20, Nobel Laureate William Phillips will underscore the importance of connecting the classroom to the community in event that is free and open to the public.
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Science synchronicity
April 17, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Elementary education students and their professor, Michelle Klosterman, have partnered with a rural Yadkin County school to put hands-on science back into the school day in creative ways.
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Business students win challenge
April 16, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ “Taking People With You” Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.
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Action following Rethinking Success
April 16, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Student, Top Stories
Over three dynamic days, presidents, career office directors, liberal arts deans, and faculty from more than more than 70 colleges and universities came to Wake Forest to share ideas on how to prepare students more effectively for life and work after college.
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