A senior mentor
Decades of working with undergraduates in his chemistry research has earned chemistry professor Ron Noftle national recognition.Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
Decades of working with undergraduates in his chemistry research has earned chemistry professor Ron Noftle national recognition.What do you see in the Andes?
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Undergraduate orientation begins today
About 1,240 first-year students are moving onto campus today. The new class is made up of 22 percent North Carolinians, 22 percent students of color and 3 percent international students.
University ranks 12th in teaching quality
Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
A college student’s guide to the law
From using a fake ID to practical jokes gone wrong, law professor Wilson Parker explains in his new book, “Ignorance Is No Defense, A College Student’s Guide To North Carolina Law,” how students can quickly find themselves in legal trouble.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Rogers: A tradition of religious liberty
The Divinity School’s Melissa Rogers writes that the controversial decision to allow an Islamic center near Ground Zero is a sign of America’s strength and the country’s “tradition of religious liberty.”
Categories: University Announcements
‘Innocent Man’: John Grisham to speak
Lawyer and best-selling author John Grisham will bring the story of “The Innocent Man” and other stories of wrongful convictions to Wake Forest on Sept. 14. His speech is free and open to the public.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Wake Forest on Wall Street
Wake Forest alumni, parents and friends met at New York Stock Exchange last week for the closing bell ceremony and a discussion of the credit crisis with financial leaders.Categories: University Announcements
August 2010 Staff News
Doug Bland, an associate athletic director, is celebrating 35 years of service this month, while Zella Johnson, an administrative assistant in the biology department, is celebrating 30 years of service. More anniversaries and news in this month’s Staff News.
Categories: University Announcements
Building international communication
The annual Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute, held for the fifth year at Wake Forest, is designed to teach teenagers about different countries, and about the shared principles and challenges they face, said Allan Louden, professor of communication and director of the program.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements