Media Advisory: Wake Forest marks 50th Anniversary of integration decision
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Phi Beta Kappa recognition
On April 18, sixty-two seniors, twenty-three juniors and one alumna were inducted into Wake Forest’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — the nations oldest academic honor society.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University and Hanes Magnet School students team up to test underwater robots and STEM learning
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Physics student gets NSF fellowship
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Alert upgrades for reliability
Wake Forest's emergency website, Wake Alert, has a new look as the University takes steps intended to bolster the site’s ability to withstand heavy traffic in the event of an emergency. Emergency preparedness information is now available on a new site, Wake Ready.
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Student Storyteller: Relating physics to the real world
Physics major Claire McLellan ('12) understands her course of study can seem impractical and hard to connect to the outside world. On April 20, Nobel Laureate William Phillips will underscore the importance of connecting the classroom to the community in event that is free and open to the public.
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Media Advisory: Wake Forest University Spring Dance Concert
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Science synchronicity
Elementary education students and their professor, Michelle Klosterman, have partnered with a rural Yadkin County school to put hands-on science back into the school day in creative ways.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Business students win challenge
A team of Schools of Business Master of Arts in Management (MA) students took home the grand prize in Yum! Brands’ "Taking People With You" Case Study Challenge. Students developed proposals on the issue of global hunger as part of the company’s World Hunger Relief efforts.