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Telling stories, building bridges

September 14, 2012  |   Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Student, Top Stories

Refugees, ballad singers, classic car collectors and victims of forced sterilization —Wake Forest third-year documentary film students have spent the last year working on movies that show what life is like from these different perspectives.

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Congress awards gold to Palmer

September 13, 2012  |   Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Top Stories

Wake Forest golf icon Arnold Palmer received the Congressional Gold Medal at a special ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 12. The medal is the highest civilian award in the U.S., along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Palmer received in 2004.

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U.S. News ranks WFU 13th in teaching

September 12, 2012  |   2012 Highlights: University News, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching.  The list highlights “schools where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”

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Harris-Perry: Question yourself, political process

September 11, 2012  |   Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories

Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her own MSNBC show and a 1994 Wake Forest graduate, encouraged students to ask, “What difference does that make?” in her address “Only Youthful Folly Can Make Democracy Real” on Sept. 10 in Wait Chapel.

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‘Love, Money and Work’

September 10, 2012  |   2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Events, For Parents, Highlights, Life on Campus, Speakers, Student, Top Stories

A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.

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Conventional Politics

September 7, 2012  |   Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories

Whether working with CNN, grading speeches, participating in town hall meetings or covering this major political event for the student newspaper, Wake Forest students enjoyed their experiences at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

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Student Storyteller: Old alma mater’s sons are we

September 6, 2012  |   2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories

Senior Peter Chawaga will never forget certain things about his first football game as a Demon Deacon. The enthusiasm surrounding games prompted his nostalgia for University traditions, but the home opener against Liberty was really just a backdrop for the pride that wells up inside all Wake Foresters collectively.

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Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’

September 5, 2012  |   2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Staff, Student, Top Stories

Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, “Of Paper.” The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.

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Q&A: Maya Angelou

September 4, 2012  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories

Maya Angelou, the Reynolds Professor of American Studies, will be inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame this October. The Old Gold & Black spoke with Angelou about her inspirations, the state of race relations in America and her lesser-known time as a calypso singer.

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Computers in the middle

September 4, 2012  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

When Wake Forest computer science professors and students introduce new ways to teach computer science to middle school students, the teachers at Hanes Magnet School can’t wait to experiment with technology.

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