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Art history detectives
December 15, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, Humanities, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories
History professor Michele Gillespie usually includes class visits to view art in Winston-Salem. This semester, she expanded the idea to benefit both the students in her Women and Gender in Early America course and the local museums.
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Sonar-assisted human navigation
November 14, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized
STEM incubator brings students from different classes and disciplines together, fostering horizontal relationships where they learn from each other, but also vertical relationships with their faculty mentors.
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Research Day, a hallmark event
October 27, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Events, Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories
Research Day is a highlight of the academic year, showcasing the personal interaction and intellectual exchange between students and faculty.
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Law school launches Criminal Justice Program
October 9, 2014 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Top Stories
The new program provides opportunities for law students interested in criminal justice careers to research law enforcement through scholarly engagement, real world experiences and alumni mentoring.
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Play shines light on Radium Girls’ history
September 15, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Faculty, Mentoring, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Uncategorized
Mike Griggs (’15) has been working with theatre professor Cindy Gendrich to hone his skills as a dramaturg. While a little unusual that Griggs auditioned and was cast for smaller roles in the play, “These Shining Lives,” it was important to him to gain professional experience researching, developing and acting in a play.
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Beating bad bacteria
July 31, 2014 | Faculty, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
Sophomore Hannah Martin and Patricia Dos Santos, an associate professor of chemistry, are tackling the problem of how to target harmful bacteria while sparing beneficial bacteria that make it possible for humans to live healthy lives.
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Research at the Forest
June 30, 2014 | Mentoring, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Science Highlights 2013-2014, Student, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
From improving the lives of people suffering from debilitating diseases to turning waves in the Reynolds gym pool into electricity, Wake Forest researchers raised the bar of scientific excellence yet again during the 2013-2014 academic year.
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Seven receive Fulbright grants
May 2, 2014 | 2014 Highlights, Faculty, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014
Trekking to a Buddhist temple in the Himalayas as part of Wake Forest’s study abroad program in India sparked Jessica Argenti’s love for forging new cultural understandings. She and six others have earned Fulbright scholarships in countries around the world.
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A programmer’s approach to problem solving
April 9, 2014 | Faculty, Mentoring, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together
An iPhone app developed by a team of Wake Forest freshmen could one day enable patrons at campus restaurants to vote for what songs play over the speakers.
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Building a personal leadership style
March 28, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: OPCD, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Speakers, Top Stories
Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy told a standing-room-only crowd that leading people works best when you stay true to yourself — which was sometimes a challenge for the soft-spoken man who made his career in the NFL.
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