An invitation from the White House sent to the Office of Multicultural Affairs invited five Wake Forest students to join nearly 200 delegates from across the country for the first Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Leadership Briefing.
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
In a speech in 2010, Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43) recalled the friendliness between professors and students that defined the Wake Forest of his college days. “Beyond the Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes and the Tuesday and Thursday afternoon laboratories, where teaching and learning officially took place, there were frequent encounters between students and teachers here and there, on the campus or in town, which opened eyes and inspired confidence and led to new insights about one’s life and career.” That fabric of friendliness remains at Wake Forest, although it goes by a more formal name today — mentoring.
Junior Yasmin Bendaas found a transformative summer experience -- and turned an internship into a job -- through the Institute for Public Engagement’s Summer Nonprofit Immersion Program. Learn more about her experience and how to get involved.
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The following Wake Forest University students have been named to the university’s Dean’s List for the 2011 spring semester. Students who achieve a 3.4 and no grade below a C were named to the list.
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CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien delivered the keynote address for the 12th annual Wake Forest/Winston-Salem State Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. O’Brien told stories of the early days of her career, when she faced overt racial prejudice — comparing her experiences to today's often more subtle forms of racism.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Spending her Saturdays with Winston-Salem's homeless has led to Amy Liang creating a documentary film, doing research and building countless relationships. Perhaps most important, it has focused her on studying public health and finding solutions.
A new semester brings new opportunities and a chance to reflect on new ways of thinking. See some photos from a special exhibit by entrepreneurship students who were asked to re-imagine everyday objects.
Categories: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
New classes, new professors, new semester. Set your goals, plan your time and know where to get help if you need it.
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For most of senior Meredith-Leigh Pleasants' young adult life, she was sure that she would follow the straight and narrow career path. But her journey took a right turn in the summer of 2011 after she spent three weeks in Zinkwazi, South Africa.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Summer research in Guatemala had been a dream for David Inczauskis ('13) for as long as he could remember. Last summer, through a Reynolds Scholarship at Wake Forest, Inczauskis lived that dream by researching two influential non-governmental organizations in Guatemala.