Four 2011 graduates who were named Fulbright Scholars, the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government, reflect upon how their experiences at Wake Forest helped shape their lives abroad.
Categories: Alumni, Global Wake Forest
The Strings, a Wake Forest women's social society renowned in the late '60s and early '70s for its voices, will reunite at Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 15, for the first time in 40 years. They will perform in the Green Room in Reynolda Hall at 11 a.m and record a YouTube video at 11:30 a.m. outside the Magnolia Room on Saturday.
Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake
Kurt Cobain and Elliot Smith (singer-songwriters), Charles Taylor (former president of Liberia), and Jena Six defendant Robert Bailey Jr. are a few of the famous and infamous faces sharing wall space with the less notable in an exhibition at the START Gallery featuring the works of Rudy Shepherd ('98).
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt (’98) has written “Finding Thalhimers” the story of her family and their business, a well-known retail institution for 150 years. Along with her mentor, professor Mary Dalton (’83), she’ll participate in a panel discussion sponsored by the Family Business Center on Friday at Reynolda House.
Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake
Categories: Alumni, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Robin Roy Ganzert (’87, MBA ’91) is president and CEO of the American Humane Association, one of the nation’s most prestigious and oldest humanitarian charities devoted to protecting children and animals. She talks about her role and how Wake Forest prepared her for it.
Categories: Alumni, Pro Humanitate
“I believe in the power of photography to empower children,” says Maddie Brandenburger (’11), founder and director of The Snap Project. She currently lives in India where she holds an IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise.
Categories: Alumni, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Former Wake Forest golfer Bill Haas won the Tour Championship in a playoff against Hunter Mahan, giving Haas the FedEx Cup and a combined $11.44 million. Another former Deacon, Webb Simpson, finished second in the FedEx Cup standings.
Two former football players, a World Cup soccer player, the most decorated women's track athlete in school history and an All-ACC basketball guard who led the Demon Deacons to an ACC Championship comprise the 2011-12 induction class of the Wake Forest University Sports Hall of Fame.
As the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs enter their final two weeks, Webb Simpson sits atop the standings in his third year as a pro. Simpson and his wife, Dowd ('07), reflect on how Simpson got to this point, as well as their time at Wake Forest.