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Fellowship and scholarship: Program supports top students through mentoring and guidance
April 25, 2010 | Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College, Working Together
The Wake Forest Scholars program, launched in 2003, coordinates efforts to encourage and assist students in post-graduate scholarship and fellowship competitions. As its director, Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78) guides students through the painstaking process of completing applications, writing essays and securing references. He’s also there to offer alternatives and ease anxieties—knowing that post-graduation awards are just one path to success.
Johnson enjoys the teacher-scholar role
April 6, 2010 | Research, Teacher-Scholar
Biology professor Erik Johnson, who received the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching earlier this semester, works to inspire a love of learning in his students. “The students here are truly exceptional, which makes the role of a teacher-scholar rewarding.”
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First-hand experience
January 19, 2010 | Student, Teacher-Scholar, Wake Forest College
Born in the midst of a civil war in Sudan, senior Leek Deng spent his early years living in a refugee camp in Kenya. Last summer, nine years after leaving Sudan for the United States, he returned to Africa to volunteer at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
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Building cells in the classroom
December 21, 2009 | Research, Teacher-Scholar
A science-education computer game being developed by a Wake Forest physics professor and two alumni to teach children the inner-workings of cells is now being tested by local students.
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Researching video games
December 9, 2009 | Research, Teacher-Scholar
Several students taking a first-year seminar have created a blog that includes reviews of video games and tips for parents, and insights into video-game play that they learned from their class research.
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Nature’s ‘trick or treat’
October 23, 2009 | Research, Teacher-Scholar
In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research.
‘The epitome of a teacher-scholar’
August 13, 2009 | Provost, Teacher-Scholar
John Archer Carter Jr., who taught British and American literature from 1961 until retiring in 1997, died August 4 in Winston-Salem. He was 77. He is survived by his wife, Lee Culmer Carter (’64). One of his close friends and colleagues, Professor of English William […]
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Equipped for discovery
June 20, 2009 | Graduate School, Research, Student, Teacher-Scholar
Not all species would survive spending 40 hours a week in a lab, but senior Kevin Cooper, one of only 15 students nationwide to receive a prestigious summer research fellowship, is thriving there.
Boston teacher wins prestigious award at WFU
October 10, 2003 | Recognition, Teacher-Scholar
Joy Bautista, who has been a teacher in the Boston area for the past five years, most recently at the Boston Arts Academy, is one of two recipients of the 2003 Marcellus E. Waddill Excellence in Teaching Awards at Wake Forest University. Bautista accepted the […]
Hoke county teacher wins prestigious award at WFU
October 9, 2003 | Community, Recognition, Teacher-Scholar
Anna J. Garrison of Raeford, a long-time elementary school teacher in Robeson and Hoke counties, is one of two recipients of the 2003 Marcellus E. Waddill Excellence in Teaching Awards at Wake Forest University. Garrison accepted the $20,000 award during the university’s Fall Convocation Oct. […]
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