The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Physics major Claire McLellan ('12) understands her course of study can seem impractical and hard to connect to the outside world. On April 20, Nobel Laureate William Phillips will underscore the importance of connecting the classroom to the community in event that is free and open to the public.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Elementary education students and their professor, Michelle Klosterman, have partnered with a rural Yadkin County school to put hands-on science back into the school day in creative ways.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ "Taking People With You" Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.
Over three dynamic days, presidents, career office directors, liberal arts deans, and faculty from more than more than 70 colleges and universities came to Wake Forest to share ideas on how to prepare students more effectively for life and work after college.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
More than 2,000 people filled Wait Chapel to hear former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “Rethinking Success” keynote address about the state of America and the role of higher education. For junior Taylor Parsons (’13), a classical studies and philosophy double major, her advice struck a chord. Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Relationships between faculty and students are a Wake Forest cornerstone. While such connections are made every day, the annual Big Campus Connect – a weeklong series of events promoting faculty-student engagement in informal settings – offers an opportunity to put down the textbooks and have fun together outside the classroom.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery