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Taking the classroom outside

June 1, 2010  |   Community, Student, Working Together

Students in Pat Lord’s biology class this spring learned some things that they hadn’t expected. They learned how the vagaries of nature — unseasonable cold, a blast of pre-summer heat, hungry rabbits — can nearly ruin weeks of work. They learned about the energy-efficiency of […]

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Senior joins professor to study microfinance projects

May 26, 2010  |   International, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College

Senior Maddie Brandenburger is spending nine weeks in Africa this summer working with journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold (’65) to study the effects of microfinance projects.

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Rewarding research: Student’s chemistry work helps advance solar-cell technology

May 24, 2010  |   Graduate School, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College, Working Together

The quest to develop technologies to replace coal and oil as energy sources is underway in many venues, including a laboratory at Wake Forest.

Chemistry professor Ronald Noftle and his student lab assistants have been experimenting with new thiophene molecules and polymers, hoping to develop a thin, flexible, inexpensive and efficient method for storing energy.

Senior Orations

May 17, 2010  |   Pro Humanitate, Student, Wake Forest College

Leaving for college was by far the scariest experience I had faced in my first 18 years on this planet. I was plunged into a world completely unfamiliar to me and learned firsthand that there is truth to the statement that we, as humans, fear […]

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President Hatch: The virtue and vice of ambition

May 17, 2010  |   Community, Student, Wake Forest College

In his remarks to the graduates, President Nathan O. Hatch talked about the “virtue and vice” of ambition. “How do you relate the drive for achievement, to make a name for yourself, with the commitment to live for the common good — Wake Forest’s motto Pro Humanitate?

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Wake Forest graduates 1,600 students

May 17, 2010  |   Commencement, Community, President, Student, Wake Forest College

The odds finally caught up with Wake Forest’s Commencement ceremony. For the first time since 1991, rain forced University officials to move the ceremony from Hearn Plaza to Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

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Bill Leonard: The power of ‘un-naming’

May 16, 2010  |   Commencement, Community, Humanities, Provost, Student, Wake Forest College

Divinity school dean Bill Leonard, in his sermon to graduates at the Baccalaureate service in Wait Chapel May 16, encouraged them to “un-name” racism and evil and embrace “names like gentle, merciful, pure in heart and peacemaker.”

New approach to career development

May 16, 2010  |   Student

Wake Forest is reimagining its career-development program to focus on pairing students’ values with their professional paths, part of the University’s broader strategic priority of vocational and character development.

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Seniors leave behind lasting projects that will continue to have an impact on campus and beyond

May 14, 2010  |   Pro Humanitate, Student, Sustainability, Wake Forest College

Some seniors, in the spirit of Pro Humanitate, have left legacies at Wake Forest that will last long after the last tasseled cap falls on Hearn Plaza.

Despite near-fatal accident, Amber Kirby graduates with her class

May 14, 2010  |   Student

Kirby, a third-year student in the Wake Forest University School of Law, had gone home to Mount Olive, N.C. — about halfway between Raleigh and Wilmington — for fall break. She and a childhood friend were on a back road in Duplin County. Just out for a drive.