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Mock interviews prepare students
December 14, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
For most students, a Friday night in December means studying for the next week’s exams, with maybe some social time to celebrate the last week of classes. Instead of getting ready for the library or a party, 16 juniors and seniors spent a recent evening preparing themselves for life after college.
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Virtue and vice
December 10, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, National, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
To better understand virtue and vice and how to define good character, The Character Project at Wake Forest has granted nearly $1 million in research funding to theologians and philosophers from around the world.
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Everyday innovations
December 7, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
An entrepreneurship course challenges students to consider their ideas on both community and global levels to design ideas and prototypes which could have a significant impact for differently resourced areas of the world.
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Social status and mental health
December 6, 2012 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Research, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
That Steve Folmar’s research in Nepal has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s cultural anthropology program is reason to celebrate. For students, however, the best news is that the support brings additional opportunities to be a part of the project.
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Cancer research sparks cover story
November 28, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The work of an interdisciplinary team of Wake Forest researchers developing a novel drug for prostate cancer treatment is featured on the cover of the Nov. 26 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
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The physics of music
November 26, 2012 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
High in the steeple of Wake Forest’s iconic Wait Chapel, students in a physics of music class collect sound spectra while sitting among the 47 bells that make up the University carillon. With the help of a sound meter, microphones, laptops and software, they measure the vibrations that travel through the bell tower.
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Wake Forest introduces Semester Online
November 15, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Online, Provost, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest, as part of a consortium of top-tier colleges and universities, announced plans to introduce an innovative program that transforms the model of online education. Semester Online will be the first program of its kind to offer undergraduate students the opportunity to take rigorous, online courses for credit from 10 of the country’s top schools.
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From class concept to venture
November 12, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Five students who needed a group project turned their theories into an entrepreneurial venture. Their company, DeaconVend, caters to students who study late at night and need vital supplies.
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A Google search for drug discovery
October 31, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Science and Research, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest researchers received a $700,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to bring to market a new drug-discovery tool using next-generation genetic sequencing. Someday, pharmaceutical companies will use their technology as a sort of Google search for new drugs, making diagnostics discovery significantly more efficient.
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Under the ‘Big Tent’
October 29, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Engaging in the Arts, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The “Big Tent,” a public art project conceived by Wake Forest art professor David Finn, provided a safe space for students at Mt. Tabor High School to talk openly about ethnic and cultural differences.
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