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.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
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. Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
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.
Inspiration often comes in unlikely places. For Paul Loeser, a senior cross-country runner, his epiphany hit while on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Loeser was working with Athletes in Action’s Urban Project when he got the idea to replicate a program he saw there when he returned to Winston-Salem.Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
A summer course in India brought together three students and inspired a second trip, rooted in discovering the road blocks to effective education. Read about the research conducted by the students, as well as their hopes for the future.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements