Wake Forest celebrates entrepreneurs
The Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship honored the University’s outstanding entrepreneurs on April 16. James Beshara ('08), CEO and co-founder of Tilt, received the 2015 Excellence in Entrepreneurship award. A faculty member and six students were also recognized.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Media Advisory: WFU historian featured on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ program on TLC
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Presidential Chairs announced
Five new Presidential Chairs to recruit, retain and reward outstanding faculty who embody the teacher-scholar ideal have been announced by Wake Forest University.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, Transformative Giving, University Announcements
Students awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Wake Forest University senior Abdulmalik Obaid has earned the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which sends recipients to the University of Cambridge in England to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A dinner dilemma
"Dining Dilemma," a program designed to encourage students, especially those planning a health care career, to talk about medical ethics continues to grow in interest and popularity.Activism and the environment
Severe drought, rising seas and dangerous storms — activist Mary Robinson says the world must act in solidarity for climate justice. No country alone can protect its citizens.Categories: Campus Life, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
Michele Gillespie named Dean of the College
Wake Forest University has appointed Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History Michele Gillespie as Dean of the College. She will begin serving as dean July 1.Categories: Campus Life, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Why business?
Students in Jim Otteson's class develop a framework for understanding an individual’s purpose, a firm’s purpose and an industry’s purpose in supporting a humane and just society.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
OMG moment affects GPAs
When chemistry professor Angela King realized how much students' expectations for a class impact their learning, she turned to a pop culture phenomenon for innovative teaching ideas.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery