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Mentoring in Vietnam
August 16, 2011 | Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Soccer player Doug Ryan spent his summer in Vietnam, mentoring rising ninth graders on a variety of academic subjects and life skills. He also helped teach them four sports through the Coach for College program. Read more and see a slideshow from his service trip.
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Peace through education
August 15, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories
Wake Foresters Phillips and Leslie McLean Bragg have teamed with James Lubo Mijak, a Lost Boy of Sudan, around the goal of building permanent primary schools in southern Sudan. Once a dream, the Raising Sudan project is becoming a reality.
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Need for police reforms
August 15, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories
Jurors recently convicted five police officers accused of civil rights violations and obstruction of justice in New Orleans. Law professor Kami Simmons writes in the Huffington Post that the situation exposed institutional deficiencies that encourage police misconduct and corruption.
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Child abuse in birds
August 12, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild. The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are abused when they are young often grow up to be abusers.
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Tracing the roots of ‘The Dream’
August 11, 2011 | Faculty, National, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest student William Murphy (’13) and Associate Professor of Communication John Llewellyn recently discovered that the most significant American speech in recent history was based on a teenage dream – one Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first envisioned and articulated as a 15-year-old schoolboy in the Jim Crow South.
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Childress named assistant to AD
August 10, 2011 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
ACC basketball legend Randolph Childress has returned to Wake Forest as an assistant to the director of athletics, focusing on compliance, fundraising and the mentoring of student athletes.
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Angelou leads poetry performance
August 10, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Directed by Maya Angelou, a Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, twelve students recently shared 44 poems in a dramatic performance at Brendle Recital Hall. The poems were selected as favorites from their summer course with Angelou. (includes video)
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Famine in Somalia
August 10, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories
If only we could blame drought and poverty for the famine in the Horn of Africa that would be so simple, says Sarah Lischer, associate professor of political science who studies humanitarian aid and refugees in Africa. In the Huffington Post, Lischer explains why Western aid won’t save Somalia.
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Designing a better crystal ball
August 10, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
If intelligence agencies could have accurately predicted the events of 9/11, imagine how world history would have changed. Eric Stone, an associate professor of psychology, is working on a crowdsourcing project to find ways to help experts make more accurate predictions. Read media coverage of the project and find out how you can participate.
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Pursuing the American dream
August 9, 2011 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories
Steve Dixon (’82) and his wife have spent much of the last year telling the story of one family caught up in the U.S. immigration process. On Monday, he witnessed the reunion of the Wasilewski family, the subject of the documentary “Tony and Janina’s American Wedding.”
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