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Infectious mentoring
October 10, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
More than 30 of Ray Kuhn’s former students, plus their spouses or significant others, gathered in Clemmons last month to celebrate their mentor’s 70th birthday and their shared experiences as his research partners. Kuhn’s work as a mentor has grown a close-knit group that spans generations.
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Student Storyteller: Vanishing Ink
October 8, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity, Wake Forest College
Inspired by the tattoos on her Algerian grandmother’s face, Yasmin Bendaas (’13) wanted to know more about how this custom began, and why it is disappearing. With the help of the Richter Scholarship and a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting fellowship, Bendaas spent the summer in Algeria researching.
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Destination Winston-Salem
October 5, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Top Stories
In the October issue of U.S. Airways Magazine, a 98-page spread positions Winston-Salem as a hub for arts and innovation, showcasing more than two dozen local educational institutions, arts organizations, restaurants and other attractions – Wake Forest chief among them.
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URECA: supporting undergraduate research
October 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Humanities, 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Undergraduate research has been a cornerstone of Wake Forest’s commitment to academic excellence. Now the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center provides student grants and administrative support for mentored, undergraduate research and encourages high-quality programs of great impact.
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Students lobbied to perform ‘Marisol’
October 4, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories
For a post-9/11 generation, José Rivera’s play “Marisol” captures the feeling of living life with the fear that something bad could happen at any time. The play, in its final weekend, kicks-off the 2012-13 Wake Forest Theatre season.
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Hit The Bricks turns 10
October 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Staff, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
When Hit the Bricks began in 2002, it raised about $3,000 and had only a handful of teams participate. Last year, the competition raised more than $26,000 and had 89 teams enroll. This year, a new record of 93 teams ran laps to support the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive.
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Intimate connections
October 2, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest stands on 300 acres of property once owned by R.J. and Katharine Reynolds. Who were these two powerful players? Historian Michele Gillespie’s new book is the first official biography of the couple and their influence on Winston-Salem.
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Talking politics
October 2, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Student, Top Stories
For most Wake Forest undergraduate students, this will be the first time they can participate in a presidential election as voters, and they are taking it seriously. From conversations during casual, between-class walks to formal, student organized debates, students are talking politics.
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Staff assistant inspires researchers
October 2, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Staff, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When staff assistant Linda Tuttle was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined her experience would inspire her colleagues to design new treatments. But medicinal chemist Uli Bierbach and graduate students Song Ding and Xin Qiao were inspired to develop a targeted therapy that delivers a sneak attack to the disease – in the spirit of Pro Humanitate.
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Meeting the need for more counselors
October 1, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Online, Student, Top Stories
Years after two tours of duty in Iraq, veteran Lionel Finley is among the first students enrolled in Wake Forest’s online graduate degree program in counseling. He wants to use what he learns to help those struggling with PTSD.
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