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
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
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 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
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
Kites, balloons, food and decorations. Sounds like a party, and, in a sense, it is — Wake the Library is a semiannual tradition that heralds the start of exam-week frenzy.
Are we any closer to finding strategies for combining sustainable principles with everyday decision-making? Starting with simple changes is the first step to tackling more complex challenges.Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability
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.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Betsy Martin has wanted to be a doctor since volunteering at the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in her hometown of Shelby, N.C., when she was in high school. Now a junior at Wake Forest, Martin had the opportunity Thursday to explore a variety of medical careers during the University's first Health Care Career Expo. Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.Categories: Campus Life, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements