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Reconciliation in Rwanda
June 20, 2013 | Admissions, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
In Rwanda, genocide survivors are making a conscious choice to promote a community based in kindness and forgiveness, healing the city of Kigali, and having a lifelong impact on the lives of Wake Forest students.
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The best of community, campus life
June 13, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
What’s it like at to live at Wake Forest? One way to find out is to look at the many ways students, faculty and staff build community. Its people are committed to making the world a better place on campus, within the community and beyond. Check out these highlights from the past school year.
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4Good: Deacons give to those in need
June 5, 2013 | Alumni, Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
From Columbia, S.C., to San Diego, Calif., Wake Forest alumni joined forces with their local communities May 31-June 3 to restore parks, plant fruits and vegetables, and collect food for the hungry. The national push to give back to the various places Demon Deacons call home was part of the second annual Pro Humanitate Days or 4Good.
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Distinguished alumni reflect Wake Forest spirit
April 23, 2013 | Alumni, Community, For Alumni, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories, University Announcement
A senator, a humanitarian and a banker received the University’s 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of their extraordinary service to Wake Forest, their field, humanity or society. Richard Burr (’78), Jane Cage (’78) and Graham Denton Jr. (’67) were honored. Read their individual stories and watch tribute videos.
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Wake ‘N Shake breaks records
March 27, 2013 | Campus Life, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
This year’s Wake ‘N Shake event, a student-run 12-hour dance marathon to benefit the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive, raised a record $125,722.57. More than 1,300 students, faculty and staff “danced for a difference” in memory of someone they have loved who has been affected by cancer.
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Wake Forest recognized for service
March 15, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories
Named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the University is one of 28 schools in North Carolina to be recognized for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results.
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Student Storyteller: Life lessons from the City of Joy
February 5, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
Danielle Gallant, a senior sociology major, traveled to India to lead a group of 10 students volunteering in the University’s City of Joy program. She shares her reasons for going and what she learned from working with the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
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Exploring new traditions
October 31, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Students create new event traditions at Wake Forest, celebrating fun and service, while still honoring tried and true autumn happenings.
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Under the ‘Big Tent’
October 29, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The “Big Tent,” a public art project conceived by Wake Forest art professor David Finn, provided a safe space for students at Mt. Tabor High School to talk openly about ethnic and cultural differences.
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Juggling documentaries, non-profit
October 29, 2012 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Bentrice Jusu, a senior studio arts major, not only creates socially and economically conscious documentaries, but she also runs her own nonprofit organization to benefit underprivileged teenagers and the arts in her hometown of Trenton, N.J.
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