Wake Forest student William Murphy (’13) and Associate Professor of Communication John Llewellyn recently discovered that the most significant American speech in recent history was based on a teenage dream – one Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first envisioned and articulated as a 15-year-old schoolboy in the Jim Crow South.
ACC basketball legend Randolph Childress has returned to Wake Forest as an assistant to the director of athletics, focusing on compliance, fundraising and the mentoring of student athletes.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, University Announcements
Directed by Maya Angelou, a Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, twelve students recently shared 44 poems in a dramatic performance at Brendle Recital Hall. The poems were selected as favorites from their summer course with Angelou. (includes video)Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
If intelligence agencies could have accurately predicted the events of 9/11, imagine how world history would have changed. Eric Stone, an associate professor of psychology, is working on a crowdsourcing project to find ways to help experts make more accurate predictions. Read media coverage of the project and find out how you can participate.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Mercy Eyadiel, executive director of employment development, offers tips to help students turn their summer internships into full-time employment.Categories: Personal & Career Development, University Announcements
Wake Forest and the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce are partnering to offer 25 minority businesses one year of free Chamber membership. The program will assist the growth and development of minority and women-owned businesses.
Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
Using a crystal ball to protect homeland security might seem far-fetched, but researchers at Wake Forest University and Fisk University have partnered to develop crystals that can be used to detect nuclear threats, radioactive material or chemical bombs more accurately and affordably.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
With an esteemed group of faculty, Wake Forest often is a source for the media on important news topics. Recently, professors David Coates and John Llewellyn spoke with the media about the U.S. debt ceiling debate.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Last week, a group of local middle- and high-school students got the chance to learn how to be filmmakers, thanks to a documentary short "boot camp" run by seven graduate students from Wake Forest's Documentary Film Program.
Mention religion and some people become armchair preachers who pepper their conversations with popular Christian words and trendy theological phrases. Bill Leonard, professor of church history at the School of Divinity, discusses "speaking Christian" with CNN.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements