Humans vs. Zombies
A zombie invasion of Z. Smith Reynolds library has been caught on video as a popular college role-playing game finds its way to Wake Forest.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning
A zombie invasion of Z. Smith Reynolds library has been caught on video as a popular college role-playing game finds its way to Wake Forest.Each of us can make a difference
CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien delivered the keynote address for the 12th annual Wake Forest/Winston-Salem State Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. O’Brien told stories of the early days of her career, when she faced overt racial prejudice — comparing her experiences to today's often more subtle forms of racism. Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Lovefeast draws thousands
More than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members filled Wait Chapel, passing to each other the light from beeswax candles — a tradition that the earliest Moravians used at the Christmas lovefeast. Watch the audio slideshow of Lovefeast.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake
Turkeypalooza 2011
North Carolina has one of the highest rates of food hardship in the country. To ease the hunger and share the holiday, students cooked and delivered over 200 Thanksgiving meals to members of the Winston-Salem community.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
‘Rake’ Forest
On Saturday, Nov. 12, when they could have been resting and catching up on much-needed sleep, about 120 Wake Forest students volunteered their day to participate in "Rake" Forest, working in neighborhoods around campus.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Ethics in research
This summer, incoming first-year students to Wake Forest University completed an academic project involving writings by Dr. James Jones on bioethics, medical research, and ethics. Now Jones, the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, comes to campus all week for the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society’s conference.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Project Pumpkin circus fun
The 23rd annual Project Pumpkin Halloween festival provided an afternoon of Halloween fun for more than 1,000 Winston-Salem area children. The event was organized by students and sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Class of the finest: Retiring faculty
Nine professors -- in art, counseling, divinity, economics, history, religion, journalism, classical languages and East Asian languages -- are retiring this year, after leaving an indelible mark on generations of students dating back to the 1970s.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Campus Life, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students explore work at Wake Forest
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class took a closer look at the work of Wake Forest staff and faculty this semester as part of their study of the history of work in America. Read and listen as staff members describe working at Wake Forest.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Then and now
From first-year student to graduating senior — students from religion professor Lynn Neal's first-year seminar class look back on how they've changed in four years.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, University Announcements