Dancing to support the homeless
    Several Wake Forest staff members, professors and students are putting their dancing shoes on -- and their pride on the line -- to raise money for the Bethesda Center for the Homeless. Vote for your favorite team now. Categories: Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
    Wake Forest Professor of Church History Bill Leonard and Divinity School graduate Rev. Yvonne Hines (MDiv. ’04) each received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service at The Chronicle’s 26th annual Community Service Awards on March 19.
    More than 800 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the sixth annual Wake 'n Shake Dance Marathon. So far, the event has raised more than $52,000 for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
    Catharine McNally ('06) recently received the Hearne Leadership award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, from the American Association of People with Disabilities. McNally, who is deaf, is both an advocate and entrepreneur, having developed captioned video tours for cellphones.
    More than 50 Wake Forest accountancy and law students are preparing tax returns for free at the Goodwill Industries in Winston-Salem through April 16. The VITA program helps lower-to-moderate-income, elderly, disabled or non-English-speaking taxpayers get their refunds faster.
    Six students from the School of Law spent the week of spring break in Pembroke, N.C., offering free legal assistance to members of the Lumbee tribe. The students were participants in the school's Pro Bono Project.
    The importance of the humanities to a liberal arts education will be on full display during a two-day symposium marking the official launch of the Wake Forest Humanities Institute on Friday and Saturday. Two nationally known advocates for the humanities — historian Edward Ayers and author Stanley Fish -- will discuss “The Humanities in the 21st Century.”
    A group of School of Law students will travel over spring break to southeastern North Carolina, where they will be helping the Lumbee Indians, among others, with a range of legal issues. 
    Students from Wake Forest’s Schools of Divinity, Law and Medicine will travel to Nicaragua during spring break for a cross-disciplinary course focusing on professional development.  While in Nicaragua, students will have access to resources available in Wake Forest’s newest international facility, Casa Dingledine, which was dedicated last week. 
    About 150 volunteers from Wake Forest fraternities and sororities volunteered at Winston-Salem agencies on Saturday, Feb. 26, as part of the “Big Event,” an initiative sponsored by the University's Volunteer Service Corps.