Van Jones to deliver 2022 Commencement address
Van Jones, CNN host and Dream Corps founder, will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address on Monday, May 16. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University will be University's baccalaureate speaker.Categories: University Announcements
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has awarded a fellowship to Wake Forest University sophomore Natasha Heisenberg. The $3,000 award will support reporting on the environmental impact of whaling in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing region off the coast of Denmark.
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As he celebrated Wake Forest’s first-ever win in the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) National Championship sophomore competitor Dimarvin Puerto said Wake Debate’s strength comes from the community its coaches and teammates have created.“ He and Asya Taylor won the championship held April 8-13.
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Aiming to increase the accuracy and timeliness of drought predictions in the United States, a team of environmental researchers at Wake Forest University has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new method for predicting drought.
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Three Wake Forest faculty – math and statistics professor Abbey Bourdon, engineering professor Erin Henslee and chemistry professor John Lukesh – have been named National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winners. Each will receive a five-year grant ranging from $400,000 to $625,000 to support their work.
As part of the University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta fielded student questions at a special program in Wait Chapel.