After Wake Forest coaches announced that Gelo Orange received his U.S. citizenship, his football teammates with the Demon Deacons gave him a standing ovation. "Welcome to America," they told him.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
From Wake Forest’s baseball coach donating his kidney to a player to the creation of an iPad app to assist children with verbal challenges to the discovery that beet juice is good for the brain, here are news highlights from this academic year.Categories: Arts & Culture, Athletics, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Cheyenne Woods, a junior at Wake Forest, is playing in this week's NCAA championships in Bryan, Texas. Though she's the niece of Tiger Woods, Cheyenne is carving out her own space in the golf world, according to USA Today.Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class took a closer look at the work of Wake Forest staff and faculty this semester as part of their study of the history of work in America. Read and listen as staff members describe working at Wake Forest.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
From first-year student to graduating senior — students from religion professor Lynn Neal's first-year seminar class look back on how they've changed in four years.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Three School of Law students -- Alexandra Ford (’12), Michael Grippaldi (’11), and Craig Principe (’12) -- have been selected for the North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows program. They join three School of Medicine students as part of 250 U.S. Fellows selected across the country this year.
Learn about some of the accomplished members of the Class of 2011 by reading our senior student profiles. Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
The Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards recognize students and faculty who have exhibited extraordinary achievements in entrepreneurship over the past year. Nominated by their peers, these individuals embody the entrepreneurial spirit in thought and action.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students interrupted exam preparation to react to the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death. Cheers erupted across campus, the Quad was rolled in Wake Forest's traditional way of celebrating, and breaks were taken to watch President Barack Obama's speech.Categories: Experiential Learning
For nearly 20 years, Professor of Political Science Helga Welsh has been reaching out to students as a partner in education — embracing a concept of learning that pairs classroom work with mentoring relationships.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements