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Wake Forest one of ‘50 Colleges That Create Futures’

September 8, 2015  |   Admissions, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Wake Forest University is featured in “Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom” — a new Princeton Review book highlighting the nation’s best institutions.

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Careers get real in D.C.

July 27, 2015  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories

Sixty-two undergrads with 19 different majors traveled to Washington this summer to learn the ins and outs of careers in banking, politics, real estate and more from 40 Wake Forest alumni who’ve settled in the nation’s capital.

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Finding the golden nuggets in big data

May 13, 2015  |   Faculty, Personal and Career Development, School of Business, Top Stories

Teaching students how to manage and analyze data is at the core of a new five-week immersive experience at the School of Business. The Summer Business Analytics Program is designed for rising college juniors, seniors or recent graduates with a strong background in math.

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STEM careers ‘speed-dating’ style

February 25, 2015  |   Admissions, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories

Wake Forest’s first STEM Slam brought together students who were looking for job opportunities with companies who were looking for potential employees. If that sounds like your typical career fair, it wasn’t.

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Changing the world with $5,000

February 6, 2015  |   Campus Life, Events, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories

As part of the Leadership Project, Nancy Lublin, founder of Dress for Success and Dosomething.org, offered advice on launching startups and leading organizations with the purpose of making life better for people in need.

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WFU grads are launching careers

January 29, 2015  |   For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Top Stories

With 98 percent of the Class of 2014 either employed or in graduate school, the numbers show that resources invested in career development have measurable results. But the first job after college is just one step in the journey toward a meaningful life.

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What can I do with an English major?

October 29, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, Admissions, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Thrive / Wellbeing, Top Stories

Wake Forest helps students answer questions about the connections between major and career — giving them confidence as they meet with potential employers and learn how to talk about what talents and skills they bring to the workplace.

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Internship on the world’s stage

September 26, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, Faculty, Personal and Career Development, Staff, Student, Top Stories

David Hughes (’15), a computer science major, spent the past five months working on Intel’s Connected Wheelchair Project, which was unveiled at Intel’s annual development conference held mid-September in San Francisco. The Connected Wheelchair Project received international attention as a result of an endorsement from world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

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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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Gold is the new green

June 23, 2014  |   Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Wake Forest Chemist Amanda Jones is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Career Award. Jones will use the $390,000 in award funding to study powerful and environmentally friendly gold catalysts for use in the pharmaceutical industry.

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