The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians wants to increase the number of Cherokee medical experts to address urgent community health issues in culturally respectful ways. Wake Forest is responding with a summer program to help Cherokee youth explore health careers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. will make a $16 million investment in a building to be renamed Wake Forest BioTech Place in the Piedmont Triad Research Park. It will provide space for laboratories, offices and other uses, primarily for Wake Forest University Health Sciences.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded "Involve—A Journal of Mathematics," the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.Categories: Campus Life, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Students, faculty and alumni were honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program featured seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash presenting their senior orations.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, who is directing the "The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre, has included undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff in the production and related events.
The Come to the Table Piedmont Conference on Feb. 18-19 is one of three regional conferences to discuss hunger relief in North Carolina. The event brings together churches, nonprofits, local farmers and campus groups to generate creative ideas for how best to get food to those in need.Categories: Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements