Wake Forest is reimagining its career-development program to focus on pairing students’ values with their professional paths, part of the University’s broader strategic priority of vocational and character development.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Some seniors, in the spirit of Pro Humanitate, have left legacies at Wake Forest that will last long after the last tasseled cap falls on Hearn Plaza.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Kirby, a third-year student in the Wake Forest University School of Law, had gone home to Mount Olive, N.C. — about halfway between Raleigh and Wilmington — for fall break. She and a childhood friend were on a back road in Duplin County. Just out for a drive.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
If the nation's ability to remain an economic power rests in the hands of today's middle-school students, then the future looks bright.
A new tool developed at Wake Forest — a video game called CellCraft — will be featured May 12 at the White House in the inaugural celebration of National Lab Day.
Three seniors were recognized recently for their research projects during the Z. Smith Reynolds Library's first Senior Showcase. The Senior Showcase honored students who were recommended by their faculty advisors for completing outstanding research projects. The three students recognized during this year's Senior Showcase were:
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Fourteen seniors will remain at Wake Forest following graduation as Wake Forest Fellows, working in the President's Office, Information Systems, University Advancement and in other offices.
Each fellow will be a full-time University employee for a year. In addition to working in a particular department, the fellows will participate in leadership activities and interact with top administrators and faculty to learn about higher-education administration.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Laura George cannot erase the memory of small children clinging to a fence outside a school in the Dominican Republic, desperately hoping for a glimpse of the lessons going on inside. George, a senior studio art major from Hilton Head, S.C., was on a church mission trip when she noticed the children.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Hundreds of Wake Forest students and students from Old Town Elementary School got together recently to custom-paint desks for the elementary students to take home with them so they would have a place to do their homework, during the annual D.E.S.K. project.
Categories: Experiential Learning