On April 20, the Arbor Day Foundation honored Wake Forest’s commitment to the care and preservation of its trees with a Tree Campus USA designation. To earn the honor, WFU achieved five core standards for sustainable campus forestry. Read more from Wake Forest Magazine.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ "Taking People With You" Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.
Wake Forest junior J’Taime Lyons of Whitakers, N.C., is among a distinguished group of undergraduate students nationwide who have been named 2012 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
A company founded by a Wake Forest student and professor that developed a monitoring device to reduce back pain and promote good posture received a $10,000 boost for winning the grand prize in the 13th annual Elevator Competition hosted by the Schools of Business.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the undergraduate business program No. 1 in the nation for academic quality and among the top 20 programs overall for the fourth consecutive year. Wake Forest ranked No. 8 for the percent of students with internships (92 percent).Categories: Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs offered by the Schools of Business are among the nation’s top 10 percent in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Within three months of graduation, 91 percent of the MBA class of 2011 had accepted jobs, with an average annual salary and starting bonus of $91,504.Categories: Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
As head of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Barbee Myers Oakes long has been known in the Wake Forest community for selflessly going above and beyond. Now she has received national recognition for her personal interest in and steadfast commitment to initiatives that promote pluralism and foster community.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
The Peace Corps ranks Wake Forest among the Top 25 Top Peace Corps Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities – an annual list of the schools which provide volunteers to the organization. This year, Wake Forest is ranked 20th among small colleges and universities.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Wake Forest was included in The Princeton Review’s annual list of “Best Value Colleges." The list “identifies America's top undergraduate schools offering excellent academics, generous financial aid, and/or relatively low cost of attendance.”
For the fifth year in a row, the University has received the Spirit of North Carolina Award in recognition of Wake Forester's efforts to help others in the local community.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact