Wake Forest University students and alumni usually have stories to tell about the close relationships they develop with faculty and staff members during their time on campus. Is it our low teacher-student ratio? Our devotion to Pro Humanitate? Decide for yourself as you look beyond the books.Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums -- since 1993.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Music professor and concert pianist Pamela Howland uses film clips and movie soundtracks to teach students classical music conventions. Her mission? For Brahms and Beethoven to join Beyonce on iPod playlists.
START, Wake Forest’s student art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of projection and monitor-based works produced by professor Joel Tauber's video art students. Works from four different classes will be on display.
Marshall Shaffer, a first-year student from Houston, Texas, shares his thoughts on the behind-the-scenes look he and other students in Hana Brown’s “Political Sociology” class got at preparations for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Kevin Smith, a senior from Wilson, N.C., shares his experience with M4, a group that brings together male African-American students to talk about contemporary issues.Categories: Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
On most Saturday mornings, the pool in Reynolds Gym is filled with just a few people swimming laps. But on April 28, it was filled with underwater robots built by students at Hanes Magnet School, thanks to a partnership with Wake Forest’s Society of Physics Students.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Grace Wandell first dreamed of becoming an international representative when she was 7 years old. Her aspiration has come true. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she will head to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this fall to earn a Masters Degree in Global Health.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Yasmin Bendaas, an anthropology major with a double minor in journalism and Middle East and South Asia studies from Winston-Salem, N.C., will use video to help her research the facial tattoos of elderly women of the Chaouia, an indigenous group and tell their stories -- an interest sparked by three family visits to Algeria during her childhood.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
When Mike Bevan’s father died suddenly last year, he dutifully stepped into a family leadership role. He also enrolled in “Fathers and Daughters,” the only known college class in the country devoted exclusively to dad-daughter relationships, to help his sister cope with their loss.