Media Advisory: Wake Forest University celebrates 25th year of Project Pumpkin
Categories: Campus Life, University Announcements
Career take-off and the ‘butterfly effect’
The butterfly effect states that serendipitous happenings can produce outcomes very different from the ones envisioned. Launching a career after college is often about being in the right place at the right time and being open to the unexpected and the unplanned.Wake Foresters “Hit the Bricks”
More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears. Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, Transformative Giving
A closer look at who’s behind bars
Seventeen students gathered for a conversation about mass incarceration with civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander before she presented a public lecture to more than 1,000 people in Wait Chapel. Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Students, faculty and staff ‘Hit the Bricks’ for Brian Piccolo
Categories: Campus Life, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Story of My Life: Facilitating storytelling when there is a language barrier
Categories: Campus Life, University Announcements
Divinity School receives $2 million for scholarships
Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a life trustee who served as a U.S. Ambassador, made a $2 million gift to support student scholarships and financial aid at the Wake Forest School of Divinity.
Categories: Transformative Giving, University Announcements
WFU knee research appears in leading medical journal
Intensive dieting and an hour of exercise three times a week can lead to significantly less knee pain and improved function after 18 months for individuals suffering from debilitating and painful knee osteoarthritis, according to research by professor Stephen Messier and his WFU colleagues.Categories: Research & Discovery
Dancing to the world beat
Wearing silk saris and carrying parasols, Sonalee’s New Generation Dance Company brought “Bollywood” dance styles to campus during Wake Forest’s fifth annual World Cultural Festival. Watch video of the event.Categories: Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Global Wake Forest
Secrest Artist Series patron passes away
Marion Secrest, who endowed the Secrest Artists Series, passed away on Sept. 20 at the age of 107.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, University Announcements