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Professor promotes community learning

August 29, 2010  |   Community, Faculty, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

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.

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Students help other students save

August 16, 2010  |   Community, Student

In spring 2009, Ben Comer (’11), a communication major from New Jersey, and Brett Apter (’10), a psychology major from Florida, dreamed up a new business venture as part of the University’s burgeoning entrepreneurship program. Their brainchild was mySavu, a website that facilitates connections between […]

Camp teaches young radio reporters

August 14, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Community

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.

Reynolda House named a Southern gem

August 1, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Community

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.

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Camp teaches children all sports, and to be good sports

July 22, 2010  |   Athletics, Community

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.

Provost Tiefenthaler: The true value of a college education

July 8, 2010  |   Community, Provost

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.”

Retired professor Ben Seelbinder dies

June 15, 2010  |   Community

Professor Emeritus Ben M. Seelbinder, who taught mathematics from 1959 to 1989 and was director of Institutional Research, died on June 12 in Winston-Salem. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Salemtowne retirement community.

Local students celebrate graduation

June 10, 2010  |   Community

Fifth-graders from Ashley Elementary School celebrated their graduation in a ceremony at Wake Forest on June 9; Wake Forest partners with Ashley in the International Baccalaureate program and through the University’s Institute for Public Engagement.

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Embodying Pro Humanitate

June 1, 2010  |   Admissions, Community, Graduate School, Pro Humanitate, Student, Wake Forest College

Wake Forest students have long been known for their commitment to the University’s motto, Pro Humanitate, and now an awards program has been established to formally recognize exemplary community service, whether it’s close to home or around the world.

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Taking the classroom outside

June 1, 2010  |   Community, Student, Working Together

Students in Pat Lord’s biology class this spring learned some things that they hadn’t expected. They learned how the vagaries of nature — unseasonable cold, a blast of pre-summer heat, hungry rabbits — can nearly ruin weeks of work. They learned about the energy-efficiency of […]