Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.Categories: Campus Life, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students, faculty and alumni were honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program featured seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash presenting their senior orations.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, who is directing the "The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre, has included undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff in the production and related events.
Students, faculty and alumni will be honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program will feature seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash, who will present their senior orations.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
To what extent do romance novels reflect the prominent ideas of the times and to what extent do they shape them? Religion professor Lynn Neal thinks it's a question worth asking given romance novels are a billion-dollar business.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Q & A with Michaelle Browers, associate professor of political science, who studies the politics and culture of the Middle East and has been closely following the political protests in Egypt. Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class are studying the history of work in America by starting with those who make Wake Forest work: staff and faculty. As part of an oral-history project, Wake at Work, students are interviewing about 20 staff members and several professors.
Rev. Doug Bailey helps train ministers to contend with cities and the spiritual questions they generate. He is an assistant professor of urban ministry and founder and president of the Center for Urban Ministry, which is housed at the School of Divinity.Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Assistant Professor of Physics Timo Thonhauser is one of only eight scholars nationwide to be named a KITP Scholar for 2011–2013. The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is the preeminent international center for advancing theory in science and is directed by Nobel laureate David Gross.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery, University Announcements