Home-grown health experts
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians wants to increase the number of Cherokee medical experts to address urgent community health issues in culturally respectful ways. Wake Forest is responding with a summer program to help Cherokee youth explore health careers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. will make a $16 million investment in a building to be renamed Wake Forest BioTech Place in the Piedmont Triad Research Park. It will provide space for laboratories, offices and other uses, primarily for Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded "Involve—A Journal of Mathematics," the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.
Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.
Students, faculty and alumni were honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program featured seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash presenting their senior orations.
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, who is directing the "The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre, has included undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff in the production and related events.
If you visited the Mainstage Theatre during one of the many rehearsals for Grapes of Wrath, you would have found senior Suzanne Spicer with her big book — making sure lighting cues, prop usage, costume changes and the entrances and exits of all the performers have been meticulously noted for every act and scene.
Props are often vital to a play’s storyline — such as the upcoming “Grapes of Wrath" — but no one ever really thinks about them until the gun doesn’t fire at the right time. “We tend to not pay much attention to props until they’re not working,” said Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre JK Curry, who has edited a recent book on props.
Students, faculty and alumni will be honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program will feature seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash, who will present their senior orations.