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2012 Highlights: Life on Campus
January 8, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Many of the University’s long-standing campus traditions began with student inspiration — and there’s always room for new ideas. Throughout the academic year, students, faculty and staff support each other in leadership, service, fellowship and fun.
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A traditional holiday celebration
December 3, 2012 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
On December 2, more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members gathered in Wait Chapel for Wake Forest’s 48th annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candlelight Service.
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American Indian voices
November 30, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Part of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, Dr. James Jones was the first American Indian to graduate from Wake Forest and the first to attend the University’s medical school. He and two others, Lonnie Revels and Lucretia Hicks, were honored for their pivotal roles in bringing greater awareness and inclusion of American Indian students.
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Turkeypalooza feeds the hungry
November 21, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
The sixth annual Turkeypalooza brought student and faculty volunteers together during the week of November 13 to prepare and deliver more than 400 Thanksgiving meals to local organizations.
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Dinner and an ethical dilemma
November 19, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Students in Pat Lord’s Bio 367 Virology class helped create a new program designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills about bioethics outside the classroom. And it all started with dinner … and a movie.
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Performance meets liberal arts at IPLACe
November 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
The new Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe) will inspire new ideas and build new connections between the performing arts and other academic departments across the University.
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Understanding Shakespeare
November 2, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories
If all the world were a stage, and all men and women were players, then Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” would be easier to understand. At least that’s what Wake Forest theatre professors say.
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Student Storyteller: The Japanese tea ceremony and insight into modern life
October 30, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Student Storytellers, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
It was a small group that gathered on Saturday afternoon to experience a Japanese tea ceremony. What could this tranquil tradition teach us about modern day life as we sat around the tatami mats?
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Connecting food and faith
October 24, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Community, Events, Faculty, Pro Humanitate, School of Divinity, Speakers, Sustainability, Top Stories
The School of Divinity’s innovative Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative will prepare religious leaders to guide congregations and religious communities in addressing food issues such as hunger, obesity and food justice.
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Muslims as minorities
October 18, 2012 | Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Research, Speakers, Top Stories
Nearly one-third of the world’s Muslims live as minorities in 149 countries, facing diverse, complex challenges as they attempt to maintain their Islamic identity. Two professors have brought together a group of international scholars to explore why the issues confronting them are so important in today’s world.
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