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Building on classroom learning
April 12, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
How do you increase attendance at an international film festival for the most difficult demographic to attract — young adults? Ask junior communication major Mandi Yohn. She took on the challenge when she accepted an internship position with RiverRun International Film Festival.
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Join the conversation
April 12, 2011 | Athletics, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Speakers, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.
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Inside scoop from D.C. journalists
April 12, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Speakers, Top Stories
Two prominent Washington D.C. journalists, Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff, will speak at Wake Forest at 6 p.m. April 13 in Wait Chapel as part of the University’s Voices of Our Time series.
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Abroad in South America
April 11, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories
Seven students are spending the 2011 spring semester studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, in the newly established Wake Forest Southern Cone Program. The Wake Forest faculty-led program includes home stays with host families, classes with Chilean students and travel in the region.
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Meditation can reduce pain
April 11, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Research, School of Medicine, Top Stories
Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience by Fadel Zeidan, a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Students win world championship
April 10, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
A team of undergraduate students from the Schools of Business won the world championship title on April 8 at the KPMG International Case Competition in Istanbul, Turkey. Wake Forest, representing the U.S., defeated the Czech Republic, Russia and Sweden in the final round.
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BioBook – eText evolved
April 8, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
What started as an idea for an iPad application by professors A. Daniel Johnson and Jed Macosko evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks called “BioBook.” The project will be funded by a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.
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Team wins ‘Student Emmy’ for documentary
April 8, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, National, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
How do you take a small story and make it big? Two documentary film students started with a story about a man breaking the law by handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless people, and created the award-winning film, “Civil Indigent.”
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Providing desks for local students
April 8, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus Wednesday to paint their very own desk. Wake Forest students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 11 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.
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Breaking ground on Farrell Hall
April 8, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, President, School of Business, Top Stories
More than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for Farrell Hall, a new home for the Schools of Business, on Friday at the building site across from Poteat Field, near the Polo Road entrance to campus.
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