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Support network for stressed students
May 18, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
Marianne Schubert, the director of the University Counseling Center, is the consummate counselor. She draws people out while letting herself fade into the background, holds deeply felt convictions without running them up the flagpole, and solves problems without revealing any confidences.
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Wake Forest News: Year in Review
May 18, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Athletics, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Research, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
From Wake Forest’s baseball coach donating his kidney to a player to the creation of an iPad app to assist children with verbal challenges to the discovery that beet juice is good for the brain, here are news highlights from this academic year.
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Cheyenne Woods creates own identity
May 18, 2011 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Cheyenne Woods, a junior at Wake Forest, is playing in this week’s NCAA championships in Bryan, Texas. Though she’s the niece of Tiger Woods, Cheyenne is carving out her own space in the golf world, according to USA Today.
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Startup jobs: Are they right for you?
May 18, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
U.S. job growth is driven by startup companies, according to a 2010 Kauffman Foundation study. But, jobseekers who dream of joining a new company hoping it will become the next Starbucks or Google should carefully consider the risks and rewards, says Polly Black, director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship.
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Message to grads: Be lifelong learners
May 16, 2011 | Alumni, Commencement, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Speakers, Top Stories
Monday was the start of a big week for Anna Walker and Joe Hester. Five days after graduating from Wake Forest, they’re getting married in Winston-Salem. They were among about 945 undergraduates and 700 graduate and professional students to receive diplomas during Wake Forest’s
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Class of 2011 graduates
May 16, 2011 | Commencement, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
More than 1,600 graduates and their families gathered on Hearn Plaza under cloudy skies for the 2011 Commencement Ceremony. In her speech, “For Humanity,” PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi urged graduates to keep their curiosity and stay positive. See photo galleries, videos and more.
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Baccalaureate 2011
May 16, 2011 | Commencement, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Speakers, Top Stories
Rebecca Chopp, the president of Swarthmore College, gave the sermon at the 2011 Baccalaureate Service on Sunday. View an audio slideshow and a photo gallery of the celebration.
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Class of the finest: Retiring faculty
May 16, 2011 | Commencement, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Recognition, School of Divinity, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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Students explore work at Wake Forest
May 13, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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Then and now
May 12, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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