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Big moment on campus
October 18, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories 2013-2014, University Announcement, Wake Will
“Wake Will: The Campaign for Wake Forest” represents the largest mobilization of support for the mission of Wake Forest in the institution’s 179-year history. Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will significantly increase their impact on the region, the nation and the world by investing $1 billion over the next five years to strengthen and renew their ability to carry out their respective missions.
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University celebrates 25th year of Project Pumpkin
October 17, 2013 | Campus Life, Media Advisory
In 1989, a Wake Forest freshman named Libby Bell started a Halloween festival on campus for local children. Twenty-five years later, Project Pumpkin has become a Wake Forest tradition that participating schools and agencies in Winston-Salem look forward to each year. This year, more than […]
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University to Host Hunger U
October 16, 2013 | Campus Life, Media Advisory
“The United States is the most abundant food-producing country in the world, yet 52 million Americans are hungry,“ states Hunger U, a traveling bus tour that stops at universities across the country to educate students, faculty and staff about global hunger issues. The next stop […]
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University celebrates 25th year of Project Pumpkin
October 16, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Media Advisory
In 1989, a Wake Forest freshman named Libby Bell started a Halloween festival on campus for local children. Twenty-five years later, Project Pumpkin has become a Wake Forest tradition that participating schools and agencies in Winston-Salem look forward to each year. This year, more than […]
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Wake Foresters “Hit the Bricks”
October 4, 2013 | Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Philanthropy, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears.
Media Advisory: Students, faculty and staff ‘Hit the Bricks’ for Brian Piccolo
October 2, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Media Advisory
In 2003, students at Wake Forest University started a tradition to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. The eight-hour relay race, along the brick pathways on campus, honors Piccolo, an alumnus who attended the University in the 1960s and former Chicago Bears […]
Media Advisory: Story of My Life: Facilitating storytelling when there is a language barrier
October 1, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Media Advisory
“Story of My Life” follows the lives of six intellectually and developmentally disabled adults. Through photography, written and spoken word, and various visual art forms, the stories of six remarkable men and women are told. “Everyone has a story,” says Phoebe Zerwick, a lecturer in […]
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Dancing to the world beat
September 24, 2013 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories
Wearing silk saris and carrying parasols, Sonalee’s New Generation Dance Company brought “Bollywood” dance styles to campus during Wake Forest’s fifth annual World Cultural Festival. Watch video of the event.
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Hunger, not a game
September 6, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
Rather than putting a Band-Aid on a wound, Wake Forest students, faculty and staff continue to take a proactive approach in preventing and eradicating hunger and bringing about systemic change.
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Bringing classroom vibrancy to the residence halls
August 23, 2013 | Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Faculty, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Nineteen professors taking part in the new Faculty Fellows program will become familiar faces in the first-year residence halls. Each residence hall will have at least three faculty members assigned within this partnership program between the Provost’s Office and the Office of Residence Life and Housing.
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