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Diving into biodiversity

March 26, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: Research, Faculty, International, Mentoring, National, Online, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Working Together

Lighthouse Reef Atoll is one of the most pristine marine environments in the Caribbean Sea due to its remote location. Students taking an Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reefs class spent their spring break exploring the Atoll’s startling array of biodiversity.

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Basketball and books

March 14, 2014  |   Community, Faculty, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Talking about sports on Thursday afternoons is helping a group of high school students become better readers. Education professor Alan Brown and graduate student Jordan Daniels (’14) started a sports and literacy group for students at Southwest Guilford High School.

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Hitting the right note

February 24, 2014  |   Alumni, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Faculty, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized

The 37th Giles-Harris Competitions in Musical Performance have grown into a major event for Wake Forest’s pianists, singers, and instrumentalists.

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Student Storyteller: A ticket to Prague

February 10, 2014  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, Faculty, International, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized

One theatre class led Johanna Beach (’15) on an amazing journey to Prague. Now assistant director of “Embers and Stars,” she is sharing the story of Petr Ginz, who was a young teen during the Holocaust.

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Exploring careers, making connections

February 5, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

From Times Square to Brooklyn to Queens, 60 Wake Forest students covered miles of sidewalk and subway lines exploring careers in media, fashion and retail, public relations and advertising, and the arts. Watch videos from the trip and find out what they learned.

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Painting robot lends surgeons a hand

February 3, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: Research, Arts & Culture, Humanities, Mentoring, National, Online, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity

Would you let an artist perform life-saving surgery on you? You might someday, if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee (’16) built a robotic painting arm that could one day lend doctors a hand in practicing complex, robot-assisted surgeries without having to step foot in an operating room.

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‘Hoop Dreams:’ 20th anniversary

January 17, 2014  |   Alumni, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Faculty, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Hoop Dreams won numerous awards, but as Peter Gilbert explains, it was the story that made Hoop Dreams live on, not the technology.

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Student Storytellers: Saturdays with math and jicama

December 19, 2013  |   Alumni, Campus Life, Community, Humanities, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Pro Humanitate, Research, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Erin Hellmann (’14) and Logan Healy-Tuke (’14) founded The Ashley Explorers Saturday Academy to strengthen the reading and math skills of elementary students in Winston-Salem.

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Pool Power

December 13, 2013  |   Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Sophomore Yinger ‘Eagle’ Jin has come up with a way to turn waves in the Reynolds gym pool into electricity. The mathematical formulas he developed could one day be used to help calculate the amount of electricity that could be produced through wave energy off the North Carolina coast.

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Life in prehistoric rural communities

December 2, 2013  |   Faculty, Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories

Carrying shovels, screens and other equipment, 12 students trekked across a tobacco field along the Yadkin River to reach an archaeological site where they began finding artifacts more than 500 years old.

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