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A place where arts and culture flourish
June 28, 2012 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Top Stories
From art exhibitions to dance-offs to film festivals to theatre productions, Wake Forest faculty and students are exercising their talents throughout the school year. Here are some highlights from 2011-2012.
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Wake Forest celebrates Father’s Day
June 15, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
With so many assumptions and stereotypes surrounding Father’s Day, it is easy to lose touch with the meaning behind the holiday. Members of the Wake Forest community remind us why we honor our fathers.
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Pro Humanitate Days a success
June 4, 2012 | Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
Hundreds of Wake Foresters volunteered in projects nationwide (and in China) as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event ran from June 1-4. Read more on Storify.
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Pro Humanitate Days
May 30, 2012 | Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
From Philadelphia to San Diego, 18 alumni clubs and hundreds of Wake Foresters will be participating in volunteer projects nationwide as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event will run from June 1-4.
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Wake Forest honored for service
May 25, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, Admissions, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest University is one of 24 schools in North Carolina to be named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
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Making a splash with middle school students
April 30, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On most Saturday mornings, the pool in Reynolds Gym is filled with just a few people swimming laps. But on April 28, it was filled with underwater robots built by students at Hanes Magnet School, thanks to a partnership with Wake Forest’s Society of Physics Students.
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Painting desks for local students
April 23, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.
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Science synchronicity
April 17, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Elementary education students and their professor, Michelle Klosterman, have partnered with a rural Yadkin County school to put hands-on science back into the school day in creative ways.
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One Day Without Shoes
April 11, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.
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Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame.
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