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Experience inspires outreach
December 22, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Inspiration often comes in unlikely places. For Paul Loeser, a senior cross-country runner, his epiphany hit while on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Loeser was working with Athletes in Action’s Urban Project when he got the idea to replicate a program he saw there when he returned to Winston-Salem.
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Student Storytellers: Research in India
December 21, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A summer course in India brought together three students and inspired a second trip, rooted in discovering the road blocks to effective education. Read about the research conducted by the students, as well as their hopes for the future.
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Mobile marketing for the future
December 18, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Will consumers purchase the same product online that is in a store if it can be bought for a cheaper price? Future retail marketers are looking for creative ways to tap mobile technology and build customer loyalty without discounting.
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MBA program moves up in rankings
December 16, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, School of Business, Top Stories
The Schools of Business full-time MBA program is once again ranked among the Top 50 Business Schools in the U.S. by Poets&Quants. Wake Forest broke into the top 40 this year by climbing up three positions to No. 38.
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Teaching with technology
December 15, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
An interactive replacement for the traditional college-level biology textbook called BioBook™, which was developed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty, allows students and instructors to tailor traditional course materials to their own learning styles.
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Student awarded for service
December 14, 2011 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Law student Kelly Amell recently received a community service award from the Coalition for Drug Abuse Prevention in Winston-Salem. She was nominated for her volunteer work with the students at the Hanes Hosiery Community Center through the School of Law’s Youth Advocacy Group and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.
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Athletes are Santa’s Helpers
December 13, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
For the 26th straight year, Wake Forest student-athletes came together to help needy families as part of the Santa’s Helper program. This year, 172 student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff wrapped and delivered presents to 166 families with 586 children and wrapped additional presents for 47 other families with 170 children.
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Student inspiring others to tap
December 12, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Single-handedly responsible for breathing new life into the Wake Forest tap dancing community, junior Gerson Lanza is a student worth knowing. Coming to campus from Harlem, N.Y., by way of Honduras, Lanza is a history and Spanish major with a passion for tapping.
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Wake the Library
December 9, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
Studying all night during exam week used to be tiresome until Wake the Library livened things up with a now-popular tradition that energizes and motivates students through the final stretch of the semester.
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New Zealand connections
December 9, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Associate Professor of Education Ann Cunningham and Wake Forest student teachers, Laura Mayerchak and Caroline White, led a project to connect 47 first, second and third graders from Winston-Salem with students at Pt. England Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand, more than 8,000 miles away.
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