The American Bar Association Law Student Division has announced that the School of Law’s Veteran Advocacy Law Organization is the recipient of the Judy M. Weightman Memorial Public Interest Award. The award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to underrepresented groups or public interest causes outside the law school.
Author and religious scholar Stephen Prothero named Wake Forest University President Nathan O. Hatch's "The Democratization of American Christianity" one of the five best books on religion and politics in the Wall Street Journal.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Mentorship, University Announcements
The Schools of Business won the Connected Campus Award at the AMX Innovation Awards ceremony. The awards recognize innovative higher education institutions and best practices of the use of technology. AMX will provide school with $50,000 worth of new technology.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
In recognition of Wake Forest’s sustainability efforts, ranging from sponsoring activities for 10 Days of Celebrating the Earth to reducing campus waste, the University has received a Silver rating from the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS).Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability
NASA scientists will help Aaron Willey become a better teacher. Willey, who earned her master’s of arts in education degree from Wake Forest in May, was one of 51 teachers awarded an Endeavor Fellowship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition
Seven recent Wake Forest graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships — the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government — to teach English or conduct research abroad during the next year.
A Wake Forest junior receives the school's first grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Using multimedia, Yasmin Bendaas will document a vanishing tradition in Northern Algeria as a foreign correspondent. It's a role journalists say is vanishing as well.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Grace Wandell first dreamed of becoming an international representative when she was 7 years old. Her aspiration has come true. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she will head to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this fall to earn a Masters Degree in Global Health.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Yasmin Bendaas, an anthropology major with a double minor in journalism and Middle East and South Asia studies from Winston-Salem, N.C., will use video to help her research the facial tattoos of elderly women of the Chaouia, an indigenous group and tell their stories -- an interest sparked by three family visits to Algeria during her childhood.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.