As the economic slowdown curtails some students’ ability to study overseas, colleges are being much more active in helping students deal with the costs, while emphasizing the value of studying abroad, Director of International Studies Steven T. Duke tells The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Three years ago, The Washington Post reported on Wake Forest roommates Lee Briggs (’02) and Brent Thomas (’02), who made a “bucket list” of life goals, including biking across the country; an update from the Post.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Wake Forest students have long been known for their commitment to the University’s motto, Pro Humanitate, and now an awards program has been established to formally recognize exemplary community service, whether it’s close to home or around the world.
Categories: Community Impact, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship
Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.
The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.
Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
In his remarks to the graduates, President Nathan O. Hatch talked about the "virtue and vice" of ambition. "How do you relate the drive for achievement, to make a name for yourself, with the commitment to live for the common good — Wake Forest's motto Pro Humanitate?
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
The odds finally caught up with Wake Forest's Commencement ceremony. For the first time since 1991, rain forced University officials to move the ceremony from Hearn Plaza to Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Divinity school dean Bill Leonard, in his sermon to graduates at the Baccalaureate service in Wait Chapel May 16, encouraged them to "un-name" racism and evil and embrace "names like gentle, merciful, pure in heart and peacemaker."
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