Welcome New Demon Deacons!
First-year students arrived on campus Friday to settle in to their dorms, find their way around campus and make new friends before the start of fall semester.Categories: Experiential Learning
First-year students arrived on campus Friday to settle in to their dorms, find their way around campus and make new friends before the start of fall semester.Community connections
First-year students took part this week in a Wake Forest program to introduce them to volunteer opportunities and community agencies in the Winston-Salem area. See photos of students putting Wake Forest’s “Pro Humanitate” (for humanity) motto into action.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Stay informed with Wake Alert
Wake Forest is opening its 2011-2012 academic year with a recently launched emergency website called Wake Alert. The centerpiece of a multi-faceted emergency alert system, Wake Alert is accessible to anyone at http://wakealert.wfu.edu.Categories: University Announcements
Little to celebrate this Labor Day?
"As Labor Day approaches, there is little to celebrate about the state of American labor,” writes David Coates, Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies in the political science department, in an op-ed that appeared in Friday’s Charlotte Observer.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
First college assignment: ethics
Breakthroughs in science and medicine have multiplied the ethical questions confronting this generation of college students. With its 2011 summer reading assignment, Wake Forest seeks to engage incoming students in thorny bioethics issues, while also addressing broader ethical issues in society.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Weekend activities remain on track
Wake Forest officials are staying on track with the weekend schedule for freshman orientation and other back-to-school activities, while monitoring closely news reports of the progress of Hurricane Irene.Categories: University Announcements
School of Law on ‘Best Value’ list
The School of Law is once again among the nation’s “Best Value” law schools, according to the National Jurist and preLaw magazines.Categories: Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
Alumnus brings pro tennis to town
Trustee and Board of Visitors member Don Flow (MBA '83) is the chairman of Winston-Salem Professional Tennis Inc., the nonprofit group that persuaded the U.S. Tennis Association to move this week's ATP tournament to Winston-Salem.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact
Retail marketing center launched
The Schools of Business announced the unveiling of its new Center for Value Delivery Innovation, a first-of-its-kind retail marketing collaboration, at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Executive Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Aug. 20. Categories: University Announcements
Teachers win $20,000 Waddill Award
Two teachers — an elementary school teacher in Kernersville and a high school math teacher in Clemmons — have been named winners of Wake Forest University’s 2011 Marcellus Waddill Excellence in Teaching Award.Categories: University Announcements