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Support network for stressed students

May 18, 2011  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories

Marianne Schubert, the director of the University Counseling Center, is the consummate counselor. She draws people out while letting herself fade into the background, holds deeply felt convictions without running them up the flagpole, and solves problems without revealing any confidences.

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Wake Forest News: Year in Review

May 18, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Athletics, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Research, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

From Wake Forest’s baseball coach donating his kidney to a player to the creation of an iPad app to assist children with verbal challenges to the discovery that beet juice is good for the brain, here are news highlights from this academic year.

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Irish poetry for St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Staff, Top Stories

On St. Patrick’s Day, Jeff Holdridge, director of the Wake Forest University Press — the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America — discusses the future of Irish poetry after “The Troubles” and shares his five favorite Irish poems.

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Greening of Feminism

February 28, 2011  |   Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, School of Divinity, Speakers, Staff, Sustainability, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Creation narratives from Genesis are sometimes interpreted as giving humans domination over the earth. But what if instead that language has implications for stewardship rather than control? Questions like this and others related to feminism and the environment will be explored during the Phyllis Trible Lecture Series to be held March 1 and 2 on the Reynolda Campus.

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Faculty, staff offer spiritual mentoring

February 20, 2011  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Top Stories

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.

‘The Grapes of Wrath’

February 18, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Staff, Student, Wake Forest College

Theater production unites community and disciplines Schedule Where: Mainstage Theatre, Scales Fine Arts Center Tickets: $12, $5 students Box Office: 336.758.5295 Feb. 18-19; 23-26, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, 2 p.m. “The Grapes of Wrath,” a story about the devastating impact of the Great Depression, is […]

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Founders’ Day Convocation 2011

February 17, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, School of Divinity, School of Law, School of Medicine, Speakers, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

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.

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Play becomes a community effort

February 17, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Staff, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

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.

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Convocation to honor past, present

February 14, 2011  |   Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories

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.

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Librarian named “Emerging Leader”

January 28, 2011  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Staff, Top Stories

Z. Smith Reynolds librarian Molly Keener has been named a 2011 “Emerging Leader” by the American Library Association (ALA). Keener, a scholarly communication librarian, is the third Z. Smith Reynolds librarian to be selected for the award in the last few years.