With a tower of LEGO Architecture building block sets at his side, Colin Gillespie (MBA '00) returned “home” during the Schools of Business Elevator Competition to share his journey around the world with the LEGO company.Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Indie films, documentaries, international features, an Oscar-nominated keynote speaker and a worldwide student film competition — the Reynolda Film Festival, held March 29-April 2, offers them all.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
The late Bob Knott dedicated much of his time during his long career teaching art at Wake Forest to helping students build the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. Some of his artwork will be sold during this Friday's Gallery Hop in downtown Winston-Salem to continue his passion for the Student Union collection.Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Nuhu Yaqub, the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, will discuss how corruption in Africa has limited economic and political development in a continent rich with natural resources during a lecture on Monday. It's part of a new series, "Winston-Salem and the World Scene," sponsored by Wake Forest and other local colleges and universities.Categories: Community Impact, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Entrepreneurs from universities in the U.S., Canada and Thailand will compete for cash to help turn their ideas into innovations during the 12th Annual Wake Forest University Elevator Competition on March 25 and 26.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
More than 800 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the sixth annual Wake 'n Shake Dance Marathon. So far, the event has raised more than $52,000 for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
The humanities aren’t an idea whose time has passed, but a content-rich trove of knowledge that should be actively shared to help students and others understand the past and present, historian Edward Ayers said during his keynote address Friday at the official launch of Wake Forest’s Humanities Institute.Categories: Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Spring is filled with music on campus. Find out which students were recognized with awards for their musical talent, take a look at a full schedule of events and listen to some samples of past performances.
Ben Jealous, the national president of the NAACP, said Monday night in a speech at Wake Forest that his organization is committed to fighting school re-segregation and disparities in the numbers of black and white students expelled from schools in North Carolina.Categories: Happening at Wake
The importance of the humanities to a liberal arts education will be on full display during a two-day symposium marking the official launch of the Wake Forest Humanities Institute on Friday and Saturday. Two nationally known advocates for the humanities — historian Edward Ayers and author Stanley Fish -- will discuss “The Humanities in the 21st Century.”