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.Categories: Alumni, Pro Humanitate
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.Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
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.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
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.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
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.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
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.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
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.Categories: Arts & Culture, Athletics, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
“’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.
Dennis Godfrey is a rising senior on Wake Forest's football team, and he is also from Sanford, which had parts of it torn apart by a tornado. So Godfrey organized a relief drive on campus to collect items he plans to drive home. [Video]
Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate