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Lights, camera, censorship?
August 6, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior Lizzie Woods spent 10 weeks researching 20th century censorship and the Hollywood Production Code. Originally interested in book censorship, Woods found herself intrigued by the film and soon learned that during the 1930s, film censorship was getting stricter while books were more becoming more obscene.
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Engineering at the atomic scale
July 29, 2013 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Research, Student, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior Brian Shoemaker is helping a national team of scientists answer a million-dollar question: Could a substance that resembles baby powder curb global carbon emissions?
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Paving a brighter path
July 22, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Since early June, senior history major Leah Schenkel has been working with blind and visually impaired children at A Brighter Path Foundation’s Summer Enrichment Experience camp as one of 16 interns in the 2013 Summer Nonprofit Immersion Program, which is run by Wake Forest’s Institute for Public Engagement.
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Malama i ka ‘Aina: take care of the land
July 17, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
In June, sophomore Jamal Garcia participated in a weeklong service project to help clean up the Gateway National Recreation Area, which was severely damaged by superstorm Sandy. Although 5,000 miles from home, Garcia has brought his love for the land to the East Coast and Wake Forest.
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A new way to train your ears
July 15, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Jamie Floyd has come up with a new way to teach music theory. The rising senior is using an Xbox Kinect and a visual programming language called Max to help people recognize different pitches of sound.
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Writing and producing your undergrad experience
July 3, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When Jacqueline Sutherland, a senior political science major and incoming Student Government president, moved to Washington, D.C. this summer to intern for the Fox News weekend program, “America’s News Headquarters,” she never imagined her Wake Forest study abroad experience would translate into a national news story idea and so much more.
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Student Storyteller: Developing a Cannes-do attitude
July 1, 2013 | Admissions, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Attending the international premiere of “The Great Gatsby” was an incredible opportunity for junior Marshall Shaffer. But the lessons he learned as an intern at the Cannes Film Festival will be helpful wherever his future career takes him.
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Spotlight on science and research
June 25, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest is pushing the envelope on cutting-edge research. From a new kind of light bulb to mapping the landscape of leaders’ brains, technologies developed by Wake Forest researchers during the 2012-2013 academic year are redefining how we think about everything from ecology to economics.
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Hands-on genetic research
June 19, 2013 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Eleanor Saffian decided to pursue a career as a genetic counselor when her brother Charlie was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth. She is interning at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Down Syndrome Program in Boston this summer.
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Arts & Humanities highlights
June 14, 2013 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Arts and humanities are naturally woven into academics at Wake Forest. From a concert to promote environmental conservation and a student art buying trip to a Musicircus and an interdisciplinary symposium on biotechnology, students enjoyed opportunities to learn through a variety of lenses during the 2012-2013 academic year.
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