Reflections on Concert Choir’s Italy tour
Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick remembers the Concert Choir’s international performance tour to Rome, Anzio and Assisi.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick remembers the Concert Choir’s international performance tour to Rome, Anzio and Assisi.Paul Bright’s collages exhibited at Italian estate
For the third time, Paul Bright is exhibiting his works of collage in a historic space in Italy. "Suono e Carta" ("Sound and Paper") will be on display later this month and in September at Belriguardo, the Renaissance estate of the Este family outside of Ferrara, between Venice and Bologna.Categories: Arts & Culture, Global Wake Forest
Building international communication
The annual Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute, held for the fifth year at Wake Forest, is designed to teach teenagers about different countries, and about the shared principles and challenges they face, said Allan Louden, professor of communication and director of the program.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
First Fulbright Specialist scholar
Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there this summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students and professors travel to India
The stage is set for India to play a significant role in global business, politics and culture, says communication professor Ananda Mitra, who is leading an educational trip of his home country this month for 11 students.
Mitra, along with his wife, Swati Basu, is leading the trip as part of his summer class, “Communication, Culture and Sustainability.” What gives the trip an unusual twist? While experiencing the diversity of daily life in India, students are able to share their insights with mentors who are both from Wake Forest and from India.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Students travel to Nicaragua to encourage healthy lifestyles
Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service.
With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.Ambassadors to the world
Twelve Wake Forest students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships — the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government — to teach English or conduct research abroad during the next year.
The students, all of whom graduated in May, were awarded scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Wake Forest has had 60 Fulbright scholars since 1992, including the 12 this year and 12 in 2008.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Students, children connect on service trip to Russia
Eight students and a professor who spent two weeks recently volunteering at an orphanage in Russia learned that they don’t need to speak the language to make a difference in a child’s life. Watch the students and professor perform a traditional folk dance.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Understanding the Middle East
Michaelle Browers has spent half her academic career in the Middle East.
An associate professor in the political science department, she’s conducted research in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Morocco. She's fluent in Arabic, yet one of the first things she does when she prepares for a trip is to hire a language tutor. The language is complex, but so is her area of expertise. And language is the vehicle that led to two decades of study in the politics and culture of the Middle East.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The value of studying abroad
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