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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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Visual maps provide career direction

April 2, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, Campus Life, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Students are learning to better navigate their career paths by creating vision maps that capture the patterns and themes in life’s most significant moments and connect them to possible choices after graduation.

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From bench to bedside

March 24, 2014  |   Campus Life, Life on Campus, National, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, School of Business, Schools, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Working Together

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.

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Plotting a green career path

January 10, 2014  |   2014 Highlights: OPCD, 2014 Highlights: Research, Online, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Sustainability, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014

A new masters program created by Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, the Environment & Sustainability (CEES) will give students and early career professionals the diverse skillset they need to carve out a place in the burgeoning global sustainable business market.

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Imagining the next ‘big idea’

December 9, 2013  |   Alumni, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, School of Business, Student, Top Stories

James Beshara (’08), CEO and co-founder of Crowdtilt, a social group-funding platform, came to campus to meet with student innovators and shared ideas with faculty on how to prepare students to launch start-ups after graduation.

Five tips for navigating the Forest

August 20, 2013  |   Admissions, Campus Life, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Pro Humanitate, Wake Forest College

1) Get out and explore “Welcome to Wake Forest! I hope your experience here broadens the mind, strengthens the body, and inspires the spirit. Find your niche by joining one of more than 150 student organizations or simply relax by

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A roadmap to success

May 15, 2013  |   Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Wake Forest has been at the forefront of transforming the traditional, outdated concept of “career services” into a holistic, four-year approach to personal and career development. Now Andy Chan, the vice president for personal and career development, is building upon the success of our students to help colleges and universities nationwide do the same.

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Options in the world of work

May 7, 2013  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

When Rahel Tafese spent a day job shadowing a sales representative for BioRx, she learned about treatments for immune deficiency, but more important, she made connections that will help her as she figures out her career path. Forty alumni offered an insider’s view of their work to current students as part of the new program.

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Life after Wake Forest

February 27, 2013  |   Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Staff, Student, Top Stories

As Wake Forest seniors watch the days of their last semester on campus tick by, they might feel additional pressure to find and secure their next steps after graduation. That’s where the Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) can really help. Find out what a second semester senior learned, on Andy Chan’s Heart of the Matter blog.

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Career Connecting

January 25, 2013  |   Campus Life, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories

Go-getters, collaborators, critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and great communicators. When it comes to a short list of qualifications in a job prospect, Wake Forest students of all majors fit the bill for employers at the 2013 Spring Career Fair held in Benson University Center.

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