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.Categories: Campus Life, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development
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. Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
Move over, pink. The fight against breast cancer now wears Old Gold and Black as a team of graduate students from Wake Forest Schools of Business, Law and Medicine work together to take a promising, but underfunded, cancer therapy to market. Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
The birth of a protein is one of the most fundamental aspects of life as we know it, yet, surprisingly, there is still a lot that scientists do not know about them. A split-second snapshot of the mysterious process developed by Wake Forest researchers could someday lead to more effective antibiotics. Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
The 37th Giles-Harris Competitions in Musical Performance have grown into a major event for Wake Forest’s pianists, singers, and instrumentalists. Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.Categories: Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
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.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Leadership & Character, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery
Hoop Dreams won numerous awards, but as Peter Gilbert explains, it was the story that made Hoop Dreams live on, not the technology.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements