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Entrepreneur Sam Chason earns spot in Winston Starts
May 27, 2020 | Student, Top Stories
Business and enterprise management major and 2020 grad Sam Chason has been awarded a Deac Fast Pass to Winston Starts, a startup incubator dedicated to nurturing entrepreneurs and helping them develop and scale their business ideas.
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Real-time lessons in global health
May 26, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
When Karin Friederic began teaching her Anthropology of Global Health class in January, the first coronavirus case outside mainland China had not yet been confirmed.
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Engineering professors don’t miss a beat during remote learning
May 21, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
Students in Engineering 311: Control Systems and Instrumentation, are used to hands-on activities such as building circuits and sensors and using their lab bench equipment.
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WFU’s Virtual Conferring of Degrees ceremony honors Class of 2020
May 19, 2020 | Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest held a Virtual Conferring of Degrees ceremony Monday night for nearly 2,000 graduates in the Class of 2020. The broadcast began at 7 p.m. with more than 1,200 participating live. An in-person commencement celebration for the class of 2020 is scheduled for a later date.
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Going remote, but staying connected
May 18, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
At the heart of a Wake Forest education are student-professor relationships and faculty are determined to find ways to keep connections strong no matter what form learning takes.
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Journalism students report on COVID-19 pandemic from their homes
May 8, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
Justin Catanoso knows one of journalism’s sacred rules is that reporters shouldn’t use friends and family members as sources.
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Birds of a feather learn together
May 7, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
When first-graders at Brunson Elementary were learning about birds, 17 Wake Forest students visited their classrooms to connect the biology lessons with the arts by exploring how birds move and leading bird-themed creative projects.
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When dance goes digital at WFU
May 7, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, Student, Top Stories
In mid-January, a 3-hour dance audition was held in studio D101. 50 Wake Forest students were selected by 12 student choreographers to perform in the Spring Dance Concert – a usually sold-out event held on the University’s Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center.
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Drumming class finds a new rhythm with creative connections
May 5, 2020 | Faculty, Student, Top Stories
When music professor John Beck’s Afro-Cuban drumming class moved online, his students didn’t miss a beat – even though only one of the 17 seniors in his class had access to a drum.
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Pink Floyd vs. Pink: Modern music class bridges generations
May 1, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, Student, Top Stories
For an assignment from Elizabeth Clendinning’s modern popular music class, students were tasked with listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” The goal: to experience a concept album. The result: their families engaged, too.
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