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Building on MLK’s dream
January 23, 2013 | Campus Life, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Nancy Aguillon, a Wake Forest senior, and Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services at Wake Forest, were recognized as this year’s Martin Luther King Building the Dream Award winners. The MLK Dream Award recognizes those who exemplify King’s qualities and promote diversity within the community.
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WFU launches new Women’s Center
January 18, 2013 | Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories, University Announcement
The University enhances its efforts toward creating a diverse, inclusive, and inquisitive community this month with the opening of its new Women’s Center, which will be directed by Paige Meltzer.
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2012 Highlights: Mentoring
January 14, 2013 | Campus Life, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
It could be the motto that we hold so dear: Pro Humanitate. Or the enviably low student-teacher ratio of 11 to 1. Or the teacher-scholar tradition that our faculty embraces. Whatever the reason, mentoring at Wake Forest goes to a whole new level. Read some of the best stories from 2012.
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Focus on writing
December 19, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Regardless of major or concentration, writing skills are crucial for college students. The Writing Center at Wake Forest offers all students tutoring from their peers with the goal of creating a lifelong facility for personal and professional communication.
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Hit The Bricks turns 10
October 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Staff, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
When Hit the Bricks began in 2002, it raised about $3,000 and had only a handful of teams participate. Last year, the competition raised more than $26,000 and had 89 teams enroll. This year, a new record of 93 teams ran laps to support the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive.
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Staff assistant inspires researchers
October 2, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Staff, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When staff assistant Linda Tuttle was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined her experience would inspire her colleagues to design new treatments. But medicinal chemist Uli Bierbach and graduate students Song Ding and Xin Qiao were inspired to develop a targeted therapy that delivers a sneak attack to the disease – in the spirit of Pro Humanitate.
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WFDD: Looking back, forward
September 26, 2012 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories
Chances are, you’ve heard WFDD’s programming, but don’t know much about the local NPR affiliate’s history at Wake Forest. Find out more about that history in an Old Gold and Black profile of the radio station, how they are teaching middle school students how to listen, and about an upcoming event that looks at communication technology in the classroom.
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Sounds like learning
September 26, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Working Together
The ring of a wind chime … the chirping of birds … the start of a car’s engine. Noises like these might blend into the background and go unnoticed for many people. But to the 10 children enrolled in 88.5 WFDD’s summer radio camp, these “natural sounds” function as the first building blocks in producing a proper radio segment.
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Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’
September 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, “Of Paper.” The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.
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Lead where you live
August 28, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories
When Ethan Groce (’13) came to Wake Forest, he wanted to be a leader. So, in addition to becoming a President’s Aide and taking an active role in Student Government, he decided to follow in the footsteps of someone he admired and respected: his resident adviser.
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