An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Two prominent Washington D.C. journalists, Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff, will speak at Wake Forest at 6 p.m. April 13 in Wait Chapel as part of the University’s Voices of Our Time series.
Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Seven students are spending the 2011 spring semester studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, in the newly established Wake Forest Southern Cone Program. The Wake Forest faculty-led program includes home stays with host families, classes with Chilean students and travel in the region.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience by Fadel Zeidan, a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A team of undergraduate students from the Schools of Business won the world championship title on April 8 at the KPMG International Case Competition in Istanbul, Turkey. Wake Forest, representing the U.S., defeated the Czech Republic, Russia and Sweden in the final round. 
What started as an idea for an iPad application by professors A. Daniel Johnson and Jed Macosko evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks called “BioBook.” The project will be funded by a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
How do you take a small story and make it big? Two documentary film students started with a story about a man breaking the law by handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless people, and created the award-winning film, “Civil Indigent.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus Wednesday to paint their very own desk. Wake Forest students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 11 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
More than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for Farrell Hall, a new home for the Schools of Business, on Friday at the building site across from Poteat Field, near the Polo Road entrance to campus.Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg's communications class are putting what they've learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements