Anthropology major Annelise Witcher offers a welcoming smile as passers-by stroll through row after row of posters on easels. At her feet are several 3D models of objects from the Lam Museum of Anthropology. She and her mentor Andrew Gurstelle, the museum's director, created these in part to increase accessibility for museum visitors. “Go ahead,…
Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Six Wake Forest students are featured in this spring scholarship roundup from the Wake Forest Scholars Program.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning
Wake Forest junior Elena Singer-Freeman and sophomore Cassi Hung have been named 2024 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars.
Every four years since 1963, a small group of students has traveled to New York City, with University funds, to purchase art for Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. This year they purchased nine works.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
The University is well-represented at this year's RiverRun International Film Festival. Films with Wake Forest ties include a narrative feature, a feature-length documentary, and eight narrative and documentary shorts.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Wake Forest junior and Mullen/Carswell Scholar Shelby Horth has been named a 2023 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. She is one of 413 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2023-24 academic year
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Philosophy and Piano Performance major Alice Hauser has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at England’s Oxford University beginning in the fall of 2023. She was among 32 Americans chosen by the Rhodes Trust on Nov. 12.
Three Wake Forest students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning
When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Wake Forest students Landon Bradshaw (left in the photo above) and John Billos (on the right) have been named 2022 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. The two are among 417 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2022-23 academic year.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning