WFU wins ACC debate tournament
Wake Forest senior, Ruby Klein, and junior, Brianna Aaron, won the 2021 virtual Atlantic Coast Conference debate championship over the weekend.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Senior Noah Meyer awarded NSF grant for graduate studies
Wake Forest University senior Noah Meyer, who studies physics and applied mathematics, has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Through mini-grants provided by Wake Forest, area students performing community service projects
Kenya Cropps participated in Girl Scouts when she was younger and has always been service-oriented. So when the Reynolds High School junior learned about $250 community service mini-grants being offered by Wake Forest University’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement (OCCE), she didn’t hesitate to apply.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Three WFU students named 2021 Goldwater Scholars
Joseph McCalmon, Ashley Peake and Samuel Schwartz have been named 2021 Barry S. Goldwater Scholars. The three are among 410 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2021-22 academic year.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Blackhawk helicopters to land on Poteat Field, take students to Fort Bragg for training exercise
On Thursday morning, March 25, ROTC students will take part in a training exercise on the University’s Poteat Field involving two UH60 Blackhawk helicopters.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Wake Forest students to show off dance moves for cancer research
When Wake Forest senior Jack Rolle was 10, doctors discovered a malignant tumor on his pituitary gland. After it was removed, he endured more than a dozen rounds of chemotherapy and missed a year of school.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
Art for impact: Students purchase works for WFU to reflect the times
In the pandemic year, the 2021 student art-buying trip doesn't involve a plane. Instead, it has pivoted into a virtual art buying "experience."
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
WFU Hackathon to explore blockchain’s potential in tracking art objects
In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The pieces included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian spear and arrow points, knives and grinding stones.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Welcome back Deacs: WFU students return for spring semester
With colder weather ahead, Wake Forest has created a new space called “Fireside on Manchester.” The Plaza is now home to temporary ‘outdoor living rooms’ with fire pits and safely-distanced Adirondack chairs.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
A timely assignment: Wake students complete COVID-19 class project
As the total number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. exceeds 15 million and cases surge to record levels in places around the world, understanding the pandemic and its ongoing impact remains critically important.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery