WFU basketball through the years
With the ACC Tournament this week, check out the historical photos of Wake Forest basketball on the Digital Forsyth archive.
Categories: Community Impact
Finding solutions
For most high school students, learning happens one individual discipline at a time. But in the world outside the classroom, finding solutions to challenges requires looking across disciplines. Wake Forest is starting a summer residential program this year to help high school juniors and seniors learn that the biggest challenges in the world can only be solved by studying a variety of perspectives.
Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Graduates make impact at local IB school
Teachers Jenna Lohwasser (’09 ) and Amy Talley (MAEd ‘06) are two of Wake Forest’s connections to Ashley Elementary School, an International Baccalaureate school in Winston-Salem.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Community gathers to honor seniors and faculty in annual Founders’ Day program
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
Making sense of the census: Sociologist explains the 2010 Census and why it matters
It's time again for Americans to stand up and be counted. In mid-March, census forms will be mailed or delivered to households across the country. Associate Professor of Sociology Ana Wahl, who studies housing patterns and racial integration in neighborhoods, explains the importance of the census, why fewer people may complete this year's survey, and how she uses census data in her research and teaching.
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery
University offers faculty and staff new option to support Haiti relief
In response to the continuing disaster in Haiti, Wake Forest is making it more convenient for faculty and staff to support relief efforts.
Categories: Community Impact, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Remembering the Winston-Salem sit-in
On Feb. 23, 1960, a group of Wake Forest students walked into the Woolworth's in downtown Winston-Salem and joined students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College to protest segregated lunch counters.
Twenty-one students were arrested that day — 10 white students from Wake Forest and 11 black students from Winston-Salem State. The students' non-violent protest, along with other protests in Winston-Salem, led to the desegregation of the city's restaurants and lunch counters on May 23 of that year.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Zipcars offer more sustainable car option
A new car-sharing program, Zipcar, is now available for students and others to decrease the need for privately-owned cars on campus.
Animated film tells the “Cell Side Story”
A new animated film to teach students about the inner workings of cells — made by students at Atkins High School in cooperation with Wake Forest professors — had its premiere on campus this week.
Forgiveness and hope
Dr. Maya Angelou talked and sang about forgiveness and hope in her keynote address during the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Wait Chapel Monday night. "The gift Martin Luther King gave the world is hope," she said. "Hope that we will come through this."
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, University Announcements