What will define our future? Will it be our ability to share through social media, our quest to use Google to escape memorization or the impact our consumer society will have on the environment? The highly successful TEDxWakeForestU returns to Wake Forest on Feb. 23 to tackle these topics.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
Lion dancers, drummers, and kung fu performers joined Wake Forest students and the community to celebrate the “Year of the Snake” at The Chinese New Year Festival on Feb. 16.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake
Dr. Penny Rue, a nationally known leader in strengthening campus communities, has been named vice president for campus life. Rue will oversee most facets of student life with broad responsibility for the well-being and safety of students and their engagement outside the classroom. Categories: University Announcements
As sophomores declare their majors this week, some may wonder if an interest in science and research predestines them to life in a lab or years of post-graduate professional school. Not necessarily, said senior chemistry major Ryan Daly, whose college-to-career journey has been anything but a linear path.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Can a text, tweet or status update help you share the love? Students in a Wake Forest English class who are studying written language in a digital era say electronic messages get the point across as well as provide constant contact with the ones you love.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
The University is named to The Princeton Review's 2013 "Best Value Colleges" list, announced today.Categories: Awards & Recognition
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
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
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.
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