Secrest series features eclectic mix
August 22, 2010 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
From a Grammy-award winning chamber orchestra to a Norwegian jazz pianist, Wake Forest’s 2010-2011 Secrest Artists Series will feature an eclectic offering of musical genres, beginning with Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” in September.
1,240 first-year students join the Wake Forest community
August 20, 2010 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Smiles, hugs and a few tears marked the beginning of a new journey as the Class of 2014 moved on campus. Eighty-one percent of the first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. Of the new faces, 22 percent […]
A handbook for college parents
August 18, 2010 | Exclude from Related Stories, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Retired business professor Helen Akinc explains in her new book, “The Praeger Handbook for College Parents,” how parents can help get their children through college.
New plan to strengthen campus life
August 18, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest is improving residential life to preserve the health and safety of students; create an engaged and inclusive community; emphasize the primacy of the academic endeavor; and encourage students to live lives of meaning and worth.
Undergraduate orientation begins today
August 18, 2010 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
About 1,240 first-year students are moving onto campus today. The new class is made up of 22 percent North Carolinians, 22 percent students of color and 3 percent international students.
University ranks 12th in teaching quality
August 16, 2010 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
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New South Residence Hall models sustainability
August 16, 2010 | Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
With solar panels on the roof to heat water and touch screens in the hallways for monitoring energy usage, Wake Forest’s newest residence hall has the latest in green technology.
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Wake Forest on Wall Street
August 3, 2010 | School of Business, Top Stories
Wake Forest alumni, parents and friends met at New York Stock Exchange last week for the closing bell ceremony and a discussion of the credit crisis with financial leaders.
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Paul Bright’s collages exhibited at Italian estate
August 1, 2010 | Arts & Culture, International, Top Stories
For the third time, Paul Bright is exhibiting his works of collage in a historic space in Italy. “Suono e Carta” (“Sound and Paper”) will be on display later this month and in September at Belriguardo, the Renaissance estate of the Este family outside of Ferrara, between Venice and Bologna.
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Building international communication
July 27, 2010 | International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The annual Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute, held for the fifth year at Wake Forest, is designed to teach teenagers about different countries, and about the shared principles and challenges they face, said Allan Louden, professor of communication and director of the program.
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