Wake Forest named ‘best value’
The University is named to The Princeton Review's 2013 "Best Value Colleges" list, announced today.Categories: Awards & Recognition
The University is named to The Princeton Review's 2013 "Best Value Colleges" list, announced today.Student Storyteller: Life lessons from the City of Joy
Danielle Gallant, a senior sociology major, traveled to India to lead a group of 10 students volunteering in the University’s City of Joy program. She shares her reasons for going and what she learned from working with the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate
Angelou celebrates black history
In the midst of talking black history with singer Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou breaks out singing a hymn a cappella. That teaching moment for Angelou, the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest, is one of many during her third annual Black History Month program, "Telling Our Stories," airing on public radio in February.Categories: Research & Discovery
Add it up: Accountancy program remains No. 1
The Wake Forest Schools of Business Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) program continues to boast a 100 percent job placement rate and attract candidates from across the country and around the world.
Ready, set, speak — Spanish
With funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities, Jerid Francom has been collecting data on word usage in film subtitles that may someday change the way language courses are taught.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Career Connecting
Go-getters, collaborators, critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and great communicators. When it comes to a short list of qualifications in a job prospect, Wake Forest students of all majors fit the bill for employers at the 2013 Spring Career Fair held in Benson University Center. Building on MLK’s dream
Nancy Aguillon, a Wake Forest senior, and Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services at Wake Forest, were recognized as this year’s Martin Luther King Building the Dream Award winners. The MLK Dream Award recognizes those who exemplify King’s qualities and promote diversity within the community.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Meet Greg Murr
In a Ferris Bueller moment, Greg Murr's post graduate plans took a turn to Albuquerque, N.M., for graduate school, which propelled him on a course to Italy, New York City and Germany. Now Murr ('93) has returned to Wake Forest to teach printmaking as a visiting faculty member. His art is part of a faculty exhibition at the Hanes Art Gallery.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
WFU launches new Women’s Center
The University enhances its efforts toward creating a diverse, inclusive, and inquisitive community this month with the opening of its new Women’s Center, which will be directed by Paige Meltzer.Categories: Campus Life, University Announcements
2012 Highlights: Mentoring
It could be the motto that we hold so dear: Pro Humanitate. Or the enviably low student-teacher ratio of 11 to 1. Or the teacher-scholar tradition that our faculty embraces. Whatever the reason, mentoring at Wake Forest goes to a whole new level. Read some of the best stories from 2012.