To help bridge the academic and cultural differences between educational experiences in their home country and those in the U.S., Wake Forest is introducing the Wake Forest Advantage program. The initiative is designed to help international students prepare for higher education in the U.S. before they arrive on campus.
Year of the Snake
Lion dancers, drummers, and kung fu performers joined Wake Forest students and the community to celebrate the “Year of the Snake” at The Chinese New Year Festival on Feb. 16.
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake
Student Storyteller: Life lessons from the City of Joy
Danielle Gallant, a senior sociology major, traveled to India to lead a group of 10 students volunteering in the University’s City of Joy program. She shares her reasons for going and what she learned from working with the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate
Ready, set, speak — Spanish
With funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities, Jerid Francom has been collecting data on word usage in film subtitles that may someday change the way language courses are taught.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Social status and mental health
That Steve Folmar's research in Nepal has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s cultural anthropology program is reason to celebrate. For students, however, the best news is that the support brings additional opportunities to be a part of the project.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
New website asks ‘Where are you from?’
Communication professor Alessandra Von Burg’s vision was born of the idea that everyone has stories to tell whether they are lifelong U.S. citizens or recent immigrants.
Doors open wider for overseas travel
Wake Forest ranks third among doctoral U.S. colleges and universities in number of students studying abroad, according to the Open Doors report recently published by the Institute of International Education.
Categories: Global Wake Forest
Student Storyteller: Learning goes viral Down Under
With her Richter Scholarship, junior Lauren Edgar traveled to the lab of Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty in Melbourne, Australia, to work on T-cell immunity and help develop a universal influenza vaccine. Her experiences redefined the way she thought about science and medicine.
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Muslims as minorities
Nearly one-third of the world’s Muslims live as minorities in 149 countries, facing diverse, complex challenges as they attempt to maintain their Islamic identity. Two professors have brought together a group of international scholars to explore why the issues confronting them are so important in today’s world.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Weaving education, entertainment
Jawad Wahabzada ('14) finds balancing schoolwork and the global promotion of his documentary "Children of Kabul" a challenge, but says taking courses you love and connecting with a good mentor can make a difference.
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