Pro Humanitate Archive

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Mentoring in Vietnam

August 16, 2011  |   Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Soccer player Doug Ryan spent his summer in Vietnam, mentoring rising ninth graders on a variety of academic subjects and life skills. He also helped teach them four sports through the Coach for College program. Read more and see a slideshow from his service trip.

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The man behind the gift

July 22, 2011  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories

Porter Byrum’s recent gift of Park Road Shopping Center to Wake Forest and two other universities is more than just the latest example of generosity from a local philanthropist. Read more about Byrum and how he exemplifies the University’s Pro Humanitate motto in an essay from President Nathan Hatch.

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Alumnus named Pickering Fellow

July 5, 2011  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Scholars, Top Stories

Bernardo Diaz (’07) has been named one of 40 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows for 2011. Fellows are selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to prepare for careers in the United States foreign service corps.

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WFU honored for community service

July 1, 2011  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories

Wake Forest has been selected to The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2010. The award is designed to recognize the depth and breadth of activities that schools employ to successfully partner with communities. Wake Forest has been honored each year since the awards began in 2006.

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Tom Walter on character and integrity

June 27, 2011  |   Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Speakers, Staff, Top Stories

Baseball Coach Tom Walter recently spoke about character, recruiting and his kidney donation to player Kevin Jordan. Read excerpts from his remarks at the 2011 Summer Leadership Conference in Virginia on June 24.

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A special way to remember dad

June 17, 2011  |   Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Eleven years after her father died, Kimberly Boatwright Shirley (’85) will be remembering his legacy as she celebrates Fathers’ Day. She has carried on her father’s belief in education through the John W. Boatwright Scholarship at Wake Forest.

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Honored for community service

May 31, 2011  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories

Wake Forest has been named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the community. The Honor Roll was announced this month by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency.

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Wake Forest News: Year in Review

May 18, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Athletics, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Research, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

From Wake Forest’s baseball coach donating his kidney to a player to the creation of an iPad app to assist children with verbal challenges to the discovery that beet juice is good for the brain, here are news highlights from this academic year.

Nicaragua Nexus

May 2, 2011  |   Alumni, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, President, Pro Humanitate, Provost, Student

Thanks to donors Karyn and Tom Dingledine, a new learning center is available to students studying abroad in Nicaragua. The facility, dedicated in February, supports learning opportunities for students from all areas of the University who have a desire to provide services within the fields […]

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Living the American Dream

April 27, 2011  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.