Wake Forest student William Murphy (’13) and Associate Professor of Communication John Llewellyn recently discovered that the most significant American speech in recent history was based on a teenage dream – one Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first envisioned and articulated as a 15-year-old schoolboy in the Jim Crow South.
Directed by Maya Angelou, a Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, twelve students recently shared 44 poems in a dramatic performance at Brendle Recital Hall. The poems were selected as favorites from their summer course with Angelou. (includes video)Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Last week, a group of local middle- and high-school students got the chance to learn how to be filmmakers, thanks to a documentary short "boot camp" run by seven graduate students from Wake Forest's Documentary Film Program.
Two Wake Forest Schools of Business students, Natalie Friedman and Melanie Green, have been selected with about 100 other students to attend Fast Forward, a three-day leadership development program in California.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
WAKE Washington offers students a chance to live, learn and work in the nation's capital. The rigorous program offers students across every major a real-world taste of government, politics, think tanks and nonprofits, and a chance to hobnob with high-profile powerbrokers.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Over the summer, take a look back at some of the student accomplishments from the past school year, such as Suzanne Spicer’s work as the stage manager for the Theatre department's production of "Grapes of Wrath."
Grand Theft Auto, Jersey Shore, Kanye West — is anyone paying attention? Students in communication professor Marina Krcmar’s class are as they analyze video games, television programming and popular music, looking at the messages most young people ignore.
Yuan Li, a physics graduate student who conducts research at Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, has been awarded the “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad" by the China Scholarship Council. Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Cheyenne Woods, a rising senior and the niece of Tiger Woods, shot a 2-under 69 to finish first in stroke-play qualifying at the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. Woods, who won the ACC championship last month, was the only player to break par. Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
Golfer Natalie Sheary has been named the ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Sheary, a religion major who graduated in May, finished tied for eighth at the NCAA Championship and posted a 4.00 GPA this spring.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, University Announcements