Peace Haven
Buck Cochran ('82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.
Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability
Teams ‘hit the bricks’ for cancer
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.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
A good cell
The video game CellCraft, developed by a team of scientists, middle-schoolers and software developers based at Wake Forest, has been played more than 2.5 million times worldwide.
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Green means go
Wake Forest is working to find alternative transportation solutions that are more environmentally sustainable, like car-sharing and shuttle services. Participation in the Zipcar program is rising, and fewer freshmen purchased parking permits this year.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Professor promotes community learning
Music professor Susan Borwick jettisoned some elements of the more traditional classroom setting and chose instead to turn the Winston-Salem community into a liberal arts learning environment to breathe new life into her course on American music.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students help other students save
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Camp teaches young radio reporters
Middle-school students learned how to be radio reporters and then put their new skills to the test by conducting real interviews during WFDD’s first Radio Camp. Listen to their interviews with basketball center Ty Walker, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan and more.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Reynolda House named a Southern gem
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of three North Carolina houses included in the new book, “Great Houses of the South,” which features many of the South’s most notable historic houses dating from 1700 to 1940.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Camp teaches children all sports, and to be good sports
The All Sports Camp, held on campus every summer for the last 50 years, teaches children about all sports, and to be good sports, under the guidance of director Max Floyd.
Categories: Athletics, Community Impact
Provost Tiefenthaler: The true value of a college education
In response to the June 30 Winston-Salem Journal article “Learn. Earn. Is it a deal?” Provost Jill Tiefenthaler offers Wake Forest’s perspective on the value of a college degree. “Our mission at Wake Forest is to educate the whole person and prepare graduates to apply their knowledge, interests and experiences throughout well-considered lives.”
Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements