A new Documentary Film Program movie, “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz,” has caught the attention of the United Nations, which will produce a study guide and send copies of the film to its information centers in 63 countries for special screenings and educational programs.
Kevin Dias (’06) planned to open a real mini-golf course in Japan. But when he couldn’t secure enough financing, he changed course and developed a mini-golf app for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. It's a finalist in the annual Best App Ever contest.Categories: Alumni, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Global Wake Forest
Western amnesia encourages atrocity in Sudan, writes Political Science Professor Sarah Lischer in the Huffington Post, but the situation is not without hope. Lischer, an expert in humanitarian crises, military intervention, genocide and forced migration, studies the causes of these complex and controversial events, as well as the long-term consequences.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest’s global footprint is larger thanks to a focus in the last year on Latin America with new programs in Nicaragua, a semester-abroad program in Chile and a summer course in the Galápagos Islands.Categories: Global Wake Forest
For most of senior Meredith-Leigh Pleasants' young adult life, she was sure that she would follow the straight and narrow career path. But her journey took a right turn in the summer of 2011 after she spent three weeks in Zinkwazi, South Africa.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Summer research in Guatemala had been a dream for David Inczauskis ('13) for as long as he could remember. Last summer, through a Reynolds Scholarship at Wake Forest, Inczauskis lived that dream by researching two influential non-governmental organizations in Guatemala.
A summer course in India brought together three students and inspired a second trip, rooted in discovering the road blocks to effective education. Read about the research conducted by the students, as well as their hopes for the future.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Associate Professor of Education Ann Cunningham and Wake Forest student teachers, Laura Mayerchak and Caroline White, led a project to connect 47 first, second and third graders from Winston-Salem with students at Pt. England Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand, more than 8,000 miles away.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Ashley Millhouse has found satisfaction volunteering on campus and in Africa. She says the key is the same either way: "Wake Forest has so many opportunities and wants you to achieve, you just have to take the risk to apply."Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Students in the Schools of Business met last week with the U.S. Ambassador to Austria, William Eacho. The students are studying abroad, taking two business classes, as well as history, art, and German. They reside in the Flow House, an elegant home owned by Wake Forest.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements