Former Wake Forest track & field standout and Hall of Famer Hunter Kemper qualified for his fourth consecutive trip to the Olympic Games after finishing fifth in the ITU World Triathlon Championship Series. Kemper earned the automatic bid to the London Olympics as the first American to cross the finish line.
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums -- since 1993.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
“You have to be a true visionary. It’s something that has to come from within,” said Deepa Pakianathan (MA '90, PhD '93), the 2012 recipient of the Excellence in Entrepreneurship award given at the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship annual awards banquet.Categories: Alumni, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Students at Wake Forest University learn ways the professional business network LinkedIn can help them prepare for their careers after college.Categories: Alumni, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
Charlie Ergen, the chairman of satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corporation and EchoStar Communications Corporation, will deliver the commencement address on May 21. Jonathan T.M. Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, will deliver the baccalaureate address.
Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Provost emeritus Ed Wilson assumed the posture of Janus, looking to the past and future, as he addressed the audience gathered Friday evening for the concluding event of Words Awake’s inaugural day. With characteristic clarity and elegance, Wilson wove together texts and reflections that joined the rich humus of Wake Forest’s literary traditions with the achievements of contemporary and the promise of future writers.
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame. Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Words Awake was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where more than 50 accomplished Wake Forest writers were together in one place — providing inspiration and career connections for aspiring authors.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Silk maps, B-24 bombers and avoiding anachronisms were the hot topics during Laura Elliott’s visit to Northwest Middle School in Winston-Salem. Elliott, a 1979 Wake Forest graduate who writes young adult historical novels, mixed WWII history with writing advice in conversations with 6th-, 7th- and 8th-graders as part of Words Awake! A Celebration of Wake Forest Writers and Writing on campus March 23-25.
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Words Awake!, the three-day symposium showcasing Wake Forest's literary legacy, launched with a spectacular start Friday evening when Tom Hayes (’79) premiered his documentary film, "Editor Uncut," about his father, Harold Hayes (’48), who as editor of Esquire (1963-1973) marshaled the talent that established the magazine as the disquieting mirror of its age.
Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery