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Project Pumpkin magic
October 29, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students turned Hearn Plaza into Hogwarts for this year’s Harry Potter-themed Project Pumpkin. The 22nd annual Halloween Festival brought more than 1,100 Winston-Salem area children from local agencies and organizations to campus for an afternoon of scary and not-so-scary fun.
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Law students take on case
October 26, 2010 | Community, Pro Humanitate, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Law-school students working with professor Carol Turowski and Wake Forest’s Innocence and Justice Clinic are investigating the innocence claim of a former Winston-Salem man who has been convicted twice of killing his lover’s husband in South Carolina.
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Expressions of humanity
October 21, 2010 | Community, For Parents, International, Life on Campus, National, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
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Students take fall service trip
October 21, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Ten students spent fall break on a service trip to Cove Creek Farm, a residential retreat for at-risk young men and their families near Boone, N.C. Wake Forest has traditionally offered spring break service trips, but this was the first fall break service trip offered by the university.
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Giving back to the community
October 18, 2010 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Student, Top Stories
More than 100 faculty and staff members and about 75 students have joined forces to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity this fall. Groups have been working on the house in the Smith Farm neighborhood, near Kernersville.
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Interfaith religious events planned
October 18, 2010 | Community, Top Stories
The Chaplain’s Office is sponsoring several programs this semester to promote interfaith dialogue and cooperation. Read the story on Inside WFU, Wake Forest’s new faculty and staff website.
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Peace Haven
October 6, 2010 | Alumni, Community, For Alumni, Sustainability, Top Stories
Buck Cochran (’82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.
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Teams ‘hit the bricks’ for cancer
September 30, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
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.
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A good cell
September 27, 2010 | Community, Graduate School, Humanities, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Top Stories
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.
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Green means go
September 21, 2010 | Community, Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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