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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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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Science and social entrepreneurship
April 7, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For as long as he can remember, senior biology major William Oelsner wanted to be a physician. Then he discovered that by joining science know-how and business savvy, he could improve lives more than one patient at a time.
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Barefoot on the Quad
April 6, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
On April 4, more than 250 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children who face challenges while trying to gain access to education — such as walking to school without shoes.
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Protecting American Indian land rights
April 6, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
To chart a course of action for the protection of American Indian land rights, scholars, policy makers and community members will gather to consider issues such as environmental pollution and the protection of sacred sites.
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Provost will become president of Colorado College
April 5, 2011 | Provost, Top Stories, University Announcement
President Nathan O. Hatch announced today that Jill Tiefenthaler will step down as provost to become the 13th president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her resignation as provost will be effective June 30, 2011.
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Wake Forest is possible debate site
April 5, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories, University Announcement
Officials at Wake Forest learned April 1 that the university is one of 12 applicants to host one of the debates to be sponsored and produced in 2012 by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).
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Using the creative arts to heal the mind
April 4, 2011 | Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Role playing, writing or drawing what one is feeling can have significant therapeutic value. Counseling professor Samuel T. Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71) is one of the country’s leading authorities on how using the creative arts — music, dance, visual art, humor, drama and writing — can help people become more in tune with their emotions and feelings.
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