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Keeping the dream alive

January 18, 2011  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Staff, Wake Forest College

Junior Fannézha Ford and Wake Forest employee Shayla Herndon-Edmonds have received this year’s WFU/WSSU Martin Luther King Jr. Building the Dream Award. Ford and Herndon-Edmonds were recognized along with two recipients from Winston-Salem State University during a program on Jan. 17 celebrating the birthday of […]

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Focus on community is recognized

January 18, 2011  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized Wake Forest as an institution with a tradition of focusing on community engagement. Wake Forest was among 115 U.S. colleges and universities selected by Carnegie.

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Hanes, champion for arts, passes away

January 17, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories

The Wake Forest family mourns the passing of Phil Hanes, a force for developing the local and national arts scene. The Hanes family donated the President’s home to Wake Forest, and the Hanes Art Gallery in the Scales Fine Arts Center is named after Phil and his wife, Charlotte.

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Medical students plan health fair

January 12, 2011  |   Community, Events, Pro Humanitate, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories

School of Medicine students, along with the Northwest Area Health Education Center, will hold the 12th annual “Share the Health” fair on Jan. 15 at Marketplace Mall. Last year, 200 student volunteers participated in the fair and served more than 650 community members.

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Emergency responder

January 5, 2011  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Ken Hoglund, professor of religion, is a trained spotter for the National Weather Service and a ham radio operator trained to relay messages during emergencies. He will be teaching a first-year seminar on the ethical and moral questions that arise around disasters.

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Community reach

December 22, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Wake Forest has been recognized by the North Carolina Theatre Conference with the 2010 College/University Award, which recognizes efforts to spread the word about the opportunities in higher education for high school students interested in theatre.

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Student-athletes play Santa

December 15, 2010  |   Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

For the 25th straight year, Wake Forest student-athletes donated their time to deliver personalized, tagged Christmas gifts to needy children all across the city, in a program called Santa’s Helpers.

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Pro tennis event, new facility planned

December 13, 2010  |   Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories

Wake Forest and the City of Winston-Salem announced plans today to host a professional tennis event and to build a state-of-the-art tennis facility for both professional and collegiate tennis events.

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Helping families avoid foreclosure

December 10, 2010  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Law, Top Stories

Students in the School of Law’s Community Law and Business Clinic are working with Professor Steve Virgil to try to stem the tide of home foreclosures in the Triad area.

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Saving endangered flying squirrels

December 7, 2010  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Endangered Carolina Northern flying squirrels have a better chance of survival in the Appalachian Mountains, thanks to research by Professor of Biology Peter Weigl.