In September 1962, a Ghana native named Ed Reynolds ('64) became the first black full-time undergraduate to attend Wake Forest. Fifty years later, Reynolds comes come back to campus to mark the anniversary of the integration of Wake Forest as part of “Faces of Courage: Celebrating 50 Years of Integration."Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake
Refugees, ballad singers, classic car collectors and victims of forced sterilization —Wake Forest third-year documentary film students have spent the last year working on movies that show what life is like from these different perspectives.
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Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her own MSNBC show and a 1994 Wake Forest graduate, encouraged students to ask, “What difference does that make?” in her address “Only Youthful Folly Can Make Democracy Real” on Sept. 10 in Wait Chapel.
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A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.
Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, "Of Paper." The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
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For many, the adage that today’s teenagers will be tomorrow’s world leaders is met with trepidation. But for those who lead the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute (BFTF), it’s an opportunity.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake
“We wanted to introduce Wake Forest to China as we look for opportunities to create educational programs in the future,” said Linda McKinnish Bridges, associate dean of admissions. “Not only opportunities for students from China to learn about Wake Forest, but opportunities for Wake Forest students to study abroad or find careers in China.”Categories: Alumni, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A look back at events on campus last year includes a conference for higher education administrators to contemplate what success means for college graduates, writers sharing their craft, and technological and entrepreneurial innovation through a variety of speakers.Categories: Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be a guest lecturer during the School of Law’s Venice and Vienna Study Abroad Programs in the summer of 2012. “We are thrilled that Justice Ginsburg has so graciously agreed to once again share her expertise with our students in our study abroad programs,” said Dean Blake D. Morant.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, University Announcements