Inspiration often comes in unlikely places. For Paul Loeser, a senior cross-country runner, his epiphany hit while on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Loeser was working with Athletes in Action’s Urban Project when he got the idea to replicate a program he saw there when he returned to Winston-Salem.Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Law student Kelly Amell recently received a community service award from the Coalition for Drug Abuse Prevention in Winston-Salem. She was nominated for her volunteer work with the students at the Hanes Hosiery Community Center through the School of Law's Youth Advocacy Group and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.
For the 26th straight year, Wake Forest student-athletes came together to help needy families as part of the Santa's Helper program. This year, 172 student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff wrapped and delivered presents to 166 families with 586 children and wrapped additional presents for 47 other families with 170 children.Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
More than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members filled Wait Chapel, passing to each other the light from beeswax candles — a tradition that the earliest Moravians used at the Christmas lovefeast. Watch the audio slideshow of Lovefeast.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake
Senior Max Denker's business class has partnered with Habitat for Humanity in Forsyth County to learn first-hand how to develop and run a successful organization. Find out how you can help.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Matthew Potter ('09) hasn't let the cerebral palsy that has crippled his body slow his whip-smart brain or dim his desire to leave an impact on the community. Categories: Alumni, Community Impact
North Carolina has one of the highest rates of food hardship in the country. To ease the hunger and share the holiday, students cooked and delivered over 200 Thanksgiving meals to members of the Winston-Salem community.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
On Saturday, Nov. 12, when they could have been resting and catching up on much-needed sleep, about 120 Wake Forest students volunteered their day to participate in "Rake" Forest, working in neighborhoods around campus.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Senior Amy Liang is one of 20 students statewide to receive the Community Impact Student Award and a certificate of appreciation from Governor Bev Perdue for her work to combat hunger and homelessness. The award recognizes her volunteer efforts and her ability to inspire others to get involved.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
This summer, incoming first-year students to Wake Forest University completed an academic project involving writings by Dr. James Jones on bioethics, medical research, and ethics. Now Jones, the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, comes to campus all week for the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society’s conference.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery