For three weeks, 23 high school students from as far away as California have been exploring challenges related to green initiatives and gaining the confidence and the tools to implement sustainable success stories at home.
Wake Forest has been selected to The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2010. The award is designed to recognize the depth and breadth of activities that schools employ to successfully partner with communities. Wake Forest has been honored each year since the awards began in 2006.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
Under conductor Gerard Schwarz’s direction, organist Susan Bates and the Eastern Festival Orchestra will premiere Wake Forest composer-in-residence Dan Locklair’s “Concerto for Organ and Orchestra” on Wednesday, June 29.Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Research & Discovery
When students moved out of residence halls for summer break, they donated 108 carpets, 20 ironing boards, 11 chairs, one ladder and hundreds of other items through the DEACS Donate program.Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
What’s new in the Piedmont Triad Research Park and downtown Winston-Salem will be presented by a panel of speakers June 9 in an event that is part of the 2011 Technology and Innovation Series.Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
Wake Forest has been named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the community. The Honor Roll was announced this month by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
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
In light of recent tornadoes across the South, the University encourages students, staff and faculty to review information on the Wake Alert website relating to tornadoes and other types of severe weather.Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
A research study by Wake Forest health and exercise science professors led to the development of a national award-winning exercise program to help seniors increase lower body strength at a local retirement community.Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.