Toxic tiger moth
A battle for evolutionary dominance is raging in Arizona between the tiger moth and the echo-locating bat. New research being done by Wake Forest shows the tiger moth currently has the upper hand.
Project Pumpkin’s 25th birthday
More than 800 community children from nearly 25 local agencies arrived on campus Wednesday afternoon with costumes and matching smiles to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Project Pumpkin. At least 750 Wake Forest students volunteered, escorting trick-or-treaters around Hearn Plaza to the festive carnival booths sponsored by 70 different student organizations and academic departments.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
An attitude of gratitude
To celebrate Wake Forest’s ranking 11th in U.S. News and World Report for commitment to undergraduate teaching, Volunteer Service Corps (VSC) partnered with the Office of the Dean of the College to launch the “11 Days of Teaching Appreciation” social media campaign.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Empowering the voiceless
A new kind of hands-free communication device developed by Wake Forest could help people with speech impediments and poor motor control interact with the world around them.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
First in the Forest
The first in his family to go to college, Joseph Belangia has made it his mission to mentor other first generation students so that they also find their unique place in the Forest.
Career take-off and the ‘butterfly effect’
The butterfly effect states that serendipitous happenings can produce outcomes very different from the ones envisioned. Launching a career after college is often about being in the right place at the right time and being open to the unexpected and the unplanned.
URECA: Research Revealed
When Maggie Gigler began her academic journey at Wake Forest, she knew she wanted to major in psychology and go on to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology. With her study on borderline personality disorder, she was one of 127 students presenting at Undergraduate Research Day.
Building stronger bones one runner at a time
A first-of-a-kind study by Wake Forest researchers will address why long distance runners, particularly women, are more likely than athletes in other sports to develop osteoporosis later in life.
Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Foresters “Hit the Bricks”
More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, Transformative Giving
A closer look at who’s behind bars
Seventeen students gathered for a conversation about mass incarceration with civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander before she presented a public lecture to more than 1,000 people in Wait Chapel.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements