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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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