Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Choosing to attend Wake Forest wasn't taking the easy road in life, senior Kate Miners said in her senior oration at Founders' Day Convocation on Feb. 18. Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
"The Threepenny Opera," written in Germany over 80 years ago, has a lot to say about unscrupulous behavior in any era. This operetta of power and corruption, written by poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, proves the world is only one scoundrel away from the next $65 billion Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
Khalid Griggs, imam of the Community Mosque of Winston-Salem, has been named Wake Forest's first Muslim chaplain. Imam Griggs will serve as a part-time associate chaplain to provide religious leadership for the University's growing Muslim community.Categories: University Announcements
When Zahir Rahman addresses the Founders' Day Convocation audience on Feb. 18 his topic will be, appropriately enough, "We are Wake Forest." Rahman is one of three finalists in the 2010 Senior Colloquium who will read their essays at convocation. Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson ('43) will speak on the history of senior orations at the event, which begins at 4 p.m. in Wait Chapel.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
Categories: University Announcements
Categories: Community Impact, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
In Santarem, one of the poorest regions of Brazil, children go to school for only half the day; the rest of the day, many have no place to go but the streets. Wake Forest students spent two weeks over winter break helping construct a community center to give these children a safe place.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements