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Preparing for life after college
April 3, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
In a recent Washington Post guest column, Andy Chan, the vice president of the Office of Personal and Career Development, and Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, the Dean of Wake Forest College, advocate for personal and career development to be a central part of the liberal arts experience.
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Ergen to speak at commencement
April 3, 2012 | Alumni, Commencement, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories, University Announcement
Charlie Ergen, the chairman of satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corporation and EchoStar Communications Corporation, will deliver the commencement address on May 21. Jonathan T.M. Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, will deliver the baccalaureate address.
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Borrow Me Pretty
April 2, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
A conversation on a summer’s night at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., doesn’t always change the course of your life. But for Caroline Hales (’13), that chance conversation led to the founding of her business, Borrow Me Pretty.
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Combating issues with collaboration
April 2, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories
Two School of Medicine students used role playing to illustrate the health disparities of rural residents and won the first Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity Bowl. The competition encouraged collaboration among fields of study as a way to solve complex health disparity problems.
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Lyons named Truman Scholar
March 30, 2012 | Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest junior J’Taime Lyons of Whitakers, N.C., is among a distinguished group of undergraduate students nationwide who have been named 2012 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
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Student Storyteller: Fashion and the liberal arts
March 30, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest helped junior Chakayla Taylor find her voice around her passion for fashion. “I have been encouraged to remain outside the box,” she says.
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Fun and fellowship at ‘Camp Hatch’
March 29, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Events, President, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized, Wake Forest College
Neither wind, nor rain, nor the threat of lightning dampened the spirits of 30 students at Camp Hatch 2012. Students camped out on the front lawn of the President’s home while enjoying food, games, and the chance to interact with Hatch and his wife, Julie.
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Wake ‘n Shake 2012
March 27, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
More than 1,000 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the seventh annual Wake ‘n Shake Dance Marathon. The event raises money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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From College to Careers
March 27, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
About 40 students are enrolled in “Options in the World of Work,” a half-semester course that began just after spring break. It’s the second in a series of four “College to Career” courses designed to better prepare students for life and work after college.
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Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame.
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