KyungMin Yoo, a rising junior who is majoring in chemistry, has been selected as Wake Forest’s fifth Beckman Scholar. As part of the Beckman Scholars Program, Yoo will spend two summers working on research related to wound-healing with chemistry professor Mark Welker. She has been working in Welker’s lab for a year.
Wake Forest University is holding a brief interfaith gathering today at noon in Davis Chapel to honor the victims and families affected by the mass shooting in Orlando. Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
Biology students at Wake Forest University are using mealworms to solve two global problems – food sustainability and plastic pollution.
Field research of free-flying bats conducted in their natural habitats by a WFU biology graduate student shows tiger moths produce ultrasonic signals to warn bats that they don’t taste good. This behavior – called acoustic aposematism – was previously proven in biology professor Bill Conner's lab.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
When Alex Gibson took a first-year seminar, it inspired him to start an educational outreach program for prison inmates. After graduation, he will continue to combine teaching and service with a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia. He is among nine Wake Forest seniors and recent graduates awarded Fulbright grants for 2016-17. Categories: Experiential Learning
Today Wake Forest University introduced a new and improved online newsroom (news.wfu.edu) to deliver newsworthy content in a visually-compelling, mobile-responsive and easy-to-navigate design.Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Kathryn Webster ('17) came to Wake Forest to study math and statistics, which is difficult when you’re sighted let alone blind. Her professor and a college administrator helped her by adapting technology to create a way for her to read and write the visual code necessary to study higher level statistics. That’s pretty important considering she wants to be an actuarial scientist.Categories: Experiential Learning
Wake Forest freshman Dennis Uspensky's victory in a third-set tiebreaker at No. 6 singles lifted the seventh-ranked Demon Deacon men's tennis team to its first-ever ACC Tournament title.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
On April 21, the University honored this year's outstanding entrepreneurs. Ricky Van Veen, who founded CollegeHumor.com during his freshman year at Wake Forest, received the Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award. A faculty member and six students were also recognized.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
WFU juniors have won two of the most prestigious scholarships for graduate study in the country: the Truman Scholarship and the Beinecke Scholarship.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning