Monica Petrescu, who graduated from Wake Forest in May, is the first Wake Forest student or graduate to be awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England.Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Props are often vital to a play’s storyline — such as the upcoming “Grapes of Wrath" — but no one ever really thinks about them until the gun doesn’t fire at the right time. “We tend to not pay much attention to props until they’re not working,” said Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre JK Curry, who has edited a recent book on props. Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students, faculty and alumni will be honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program will feature seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash, who will present their senior orations.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
To what extent do romance novels reflect the prominent ideas of the times and to what extent do they shape them? Religion professor Lynn Neal thinks it's a question worth asking given romance novels are a billion-dollar business.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Q & A with Michaelle Browers, associate professor of political science, who studies the politics and culture of the Middle East and has been closely following the political protests in Egypt. Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Philanthropist Fred M. Kirby II, past president of the F.M. Kirby Foundation and a longtime supporter of Wake Forest, has died. Kirby, who lived in New Vernon, N.J., died Feb. 8 at the age of 91. Categories: University Announcements
This month, Wake Forest is launching a green team initiative. The program encourages departments to select a green team “captain” to evaluate sustainable practices in the office and make suggestions for ways to improve. Ideas might be simple, such as purchasing copy paper with recycled content, or more impactful, like eliminating mini-fridges in individual offices.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, University Announcements
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class are studying the history of work in America by starting with those who make Wake Forest work: staff and faculty. As part of an oral-history project, Wake at Work, students are interviewing about 20 staff members and several professors.
A team of four Schools of Business students took first place in the national round of the KPMG International Case Competition on Feb. 4 in New York, earning the honor to represent the United States in a global competition April 6-8 in Istanbul, Turkey.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Young lawyers have to ensure that justice is available to all people, no matter the color of their skin or their socioeconomic status, Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, told students at the School of Law on Friday.
Categories: Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements