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WFU celebrates world cultures
October 1, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Featuring music, dancing and fun, the World Cultural Festival is an annual campus event highlighting differences that unite, inspire and entertain the entire community. This year, the festival was held under the “Faces of Courage” banner — a University celebration of 50 years of integration.
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Fueling a passion to teach
September 27, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Timo Thonhauser has taken on one of the toughest problems of making hydrogen cars a reality: hydrogen storage. His research is supported by the most prestigious award the National Science Foundation has to offer for young scientists, given to a select few junior faculty nationwide who excel as teacher-scholars.
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WFDD: Looking back, forward
September 26, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
Chances are, you’ve heard WFDD’s programming, but don’t know much about the local NPR affiliate’s history at Wake Forest. Find out more about that history in an Old Gold and Black profile of the radio station, how they are teaching middle school students how to listen, and about an upcoming event that looks at communication technology in the classroom.
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Grappling with the cost of debt
September 26, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
With just six weeks until the presidential election, it is rare to find political leaders from both sides of the aisle making joint appearances unless there is an organized debate – especially in a swing state such as North Carolina. But Wake Forest hosted Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles as part of its Voices of Our Time series.
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Historic Homecoming
September 26, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
For Edward Reynolds (’64), coming home to Wake Forest meant a standing ovation from more than 500 people in Brendle Recital Hall and emotional reunions with many of the students, faculty and administrators who helped him when he enrolled as the first black undergraduate student at Wake Forest 50 years ago.
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Student Storyteller: Business Abroad
September 24, 2012 | Faculty, For Parents, International, School of Business, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
This past summer Amy DeSalvo enrolled in ACC 221. What made this accounting class different than a regular semester-long class was the chance to study abroad and fulfill a degree requirement in one summer term.
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A new home for alumni
September 22, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, University Announcement
The newly renamed Alumni Hall was dedicated Thursday with a hope that it will become as hallowed as its namesake on the Old Campus. “Rather than put a single person’s name on the building, we are naming it for all alumni who love and support this University,” President Nathan O. Hatch said at the dedication.
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Gift champions wellness
September 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, University Announcement
Ben Sutton Jr. has given Wake Forest a leadership gift that will renovate and expand Reynolds Gym, creating a facility with more than 250,000 square feet of space dedicated to fitness and well-being. The facility will bring the elements of campus life, student health, academics, student recreation and NCAA Division I athletics under one roof.
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An artist comes home
September 21, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest’s Student Art Gallery (START) been showcasing works by Anderson Williams in an exhibit entitled “(Re)Generations.” This Homecoming, the 1999 graduate visits his alma mater and shares his thoughts about what it means to be an artist.
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Focus on wrongful executions
September 19, 2012 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Top Stories
One year after the execution of Troy Davis, whom many believe was innocent of shooting a police officer, several Wake Forest groups will discuss whether wrongful executions occur. Events on Sept. 20-21 include a documentary screening and a news conference at the School of Law’s Innocence & Justice Clinic.
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