A heart for service: Senior wins Community Impact award
New divinity school dean named
Gail R. O'Day, a respected New Testament scholar and currently senior associate dean at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Fellowship and scholarship: Program supports top students through mentoring and guidance
The Wake Forest Scholars program, launched in 2003, coordinates efforts to encourage and assist students in post-graduate scholarship and fellowship competitions. As its director, Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78) guides students through the painstaking process of completing applications, writing essays and securing references. He’s also there to offer alternatives and ease anxieties—knowing that post-graduation awards are just one path to success.Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, University Announcements
Pro Humanitate: Students recognized for their commitment to volunteering and service
The high level of volunteerism by students has helped Wake Forest win national recognition for community service. Nearly 60 percent of the University's students, including undergraduate, graduate and professional students, contributed nearly 100,000 hours of service last year. That was among the factors that helped Wake Forest earn a place on The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2009.‘America’s Best’: Professional schools recognized among top 50 in country
Wake Forest’s law, business and medical schools all ranked in the top 50 in the 2011 issue of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” published by U.S. News & World Report.Categories: University Announcements
Business students win international competition
A team of four undergraduate business students has won the KPMG Global Case Competition in Athens, Greece.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
National champion business students compete in international competition
Four undergraduate business students who won the national KPMG Global Case Competition earlier this semester are competing in the international competition in Athens, Greece. They have advanced to the Final Four and will compete against teams from France, Sweden and Germany on April 9.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Educators who rock: Lauren Pressley
Instructional design librarian Lauren Pressley, who was recently named a “Mover and Shaker” in the field by a national library journal, talks about being a “web librarian,” her toolkit of short videos, and “wikis for libraries” in an interview with an online journal.
Categories: University Announcements
April 2010 Staff News
Categories: University Announcements
A unique program: Wake Forest’s entrepreneurship program wins a national award as a model program
The threads that led to a profitable business tie Laura Bullins Lough ('07) to Wake Forest.
She credits the launch of her business, Unique Sheep, to help she received from the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements