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.
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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.
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Z. Smith Reynolds Library provides much more than just coffee and study space in an effort to cut down on the stress level of students during exams.
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Junior Amy Liang, through her work with Wake Forest’s Campus Kitchen, has seen the problems of the hungry and homeless. Last summer, she conducted a research project, which included creating a documentary film, to raise awareness of the issues.
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In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Wake Forest and the Wake Forest Native American Student Association (NASA) have planned several events this November.
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Wake Forest's nationally competitive debate team moved from paper evidence files to digital this year, allowing it to become the first top-tier debate team in the country to go “open source” and share all its evidence and arguments online.
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Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
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The Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste. One possible solution is an organic waste recycling system that works as a dehydrator.
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Sixty-five teams of Wake Forest students, faculty and staff competed in an all-day relay race around Hearn Plaza on Thursday to raise both money and awareness for the fight against cancer.
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