Tonight, following the first day of classes, Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff will gather for a candlelight vigil to acknowledge and reflect on the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va.Categories: Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Within the next century, rising ocean temperatures around the Galápagos Islands are expected to make the water too warm for a key prey species, sardines, to tolerate. A new study by Wake Forest University biologists, published in PLOS One Aug. 23, uses decades of data on the diet and breeding of a tropical seabird, the Nazca booby, to understand how the future absence of sardines may affect the booby population.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
More than 1,350 first-year students moved into Wake Forest residence halls. In addition to mounds of luggage, students and their families brought excitement and anticipation for the coming year.Categories: Campus Life, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
Like any aspiring engineer, first-year student Meredith Vaughn gets excited about building something from the ground up, so Wake Forest University’s new undergraduate engineering program immediately appealed to her.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
More than 1,350 first-year students will move into Wake Forest residence halls on Wednesday, Aug. 23. This class was admitted from an applicant pool of more than 13,000. Seventy-seven percent of the class of 2021 were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Gender, racial, socioeconomic and other equity gaps in STEM-related careers are more than a “pipeline problem.” That being said, what are colleges and universities like Wake Forest doing to help close these gaps?Categories: Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Emma Butturini, a junior biology major at Wake Forest University has been working at the National Institute of Health this summer as an Amgen Scholar, conducting research under world-renowned faculty mentors.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Students can lose two months of reading skills in the summer and spend up to six weeks in the fall relearning what they lost. The new Freedom School program at Wake Forest University aims to keep children’s reading skills sharp all summer.
The following Wake Forest University students have been named to the University's Dean's List for the 2017 spring semester. Students who achieve a 3.4 grade average and no grade below a C were named to the list.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning
The Beacon Project is a three-year project, which launched in 2015 with a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The project has awarded grants to 21 researchers around the world in psychology, philosophy and theology.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery