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Schools of Business wins award
June 14, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: University News, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Business, Top Stories
The Schools of Business won the Connected Campus Award at the AMX Innovation Awards ceremony. The awards recognize innovative higher education institutions and best practices of the use of technology. AMX will provide school with $50,000 worth of new technology.
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Empowering sustainable change
June 12, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Sustainability, Top Stories
In recognition of Wake Forest’s sustainability efforts, ranging from sponsoring activities for 10 Days of Celebrating the Earth to reducing campus waste, the University has received a Silver rating from the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS).
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Space exploration
June 6, 2012 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Top Stories
NASA scientists will help Aaron Willey become a better teacher. Willey, who earned her master’s of arts in education degree from Wake Forest in May, was one of 51 teachers awarded an Endeavor Fellowship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Students receive Fulbright grants
May 21, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Seven recent Wake Forest graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships — the most prestigious international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government — to teach English or conduct research abroad during the next year.
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Taking journalism overseas
May 11, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Recognition, Research, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A Wake Forest junior receives the school’s first grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Using multimedia, Yasmin Bendaas will document a vanishing tradition in Northern Algeria as a foreign correspondent. It’s a role journalists say is vanishing as well.
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Goodwill and good health
April 30, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Recognition, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Grace Wandell first dreamed of becoming an international representative when she was 7 years old. Her aspiration has come true. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she will head to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this fall to earn a Masters Degree in Global Health.
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Media Advisory: Pulitzer Center Awards Fellowship to Wake Forest Student
April 26, 2012 | Media Advisory, Recognition, Student, Students Taking the Lead
Yasmin Bendaas, an anthropology major with a double minor in journalism and Middle East and South Asia studies from Winston-Salem, N.C., will use video to help her research the facial tattoos of elderly women of the Chaouia, an indigenous group and tell their stories — an interest sparked by three family visits to Algeria during her childhood.
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Physics student gets NSF fellowship
April 24, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.
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Our family trees
April 20, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Sustainability, Top Stories
On April 20, the Arbor Day Foundation honored Wake Forest’s commitment to the care and preservation of its trees with a Tree Campus USA designation. To earn the honor, WFU achieved five core standards for sustainable campus forestry. Read more from Wake Forest Magazine.
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Business students win challenge
April 16, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Business, Student, Top Stories
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ “Taking People With You” Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.
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