Members of the Wake Forest community started the holiday season with ceremonies to light up the Quad, including a 12-foot Frasier Fir in the front of Reynolda Hall, and light a menorah on Manchester Plaza.Categories: Happening at Wake
The 46th annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candlelight Service — the largest single lovefeast in North America — will be held Sunday in Wait Chapel. The service is free and open to the public. The service will include a message by Gail R. O’Day, dean of the School of Divinity.Categories: Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Freshman J.T. Terrell had 32 points, including the winning three-pointer with 2.7 seconds left, to lead Wake Forest to a 76-73 win over Iowa in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Demon Deacons rallied from 18 points down, their largest comeback win in more than 15 years.Categories: Athletics
Jackie Swoyer, a junior and a Business and Enterprise Management (BEM) major, won the first National State Farm Marketing and Sales Competition. The competition required students to develop a detailed written marketing and sales plan targeted at the 18-25 year-old demographic.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Up to 65 percent of runners sustain an overuse injury each year. Wake Forest researchers, funded by a $600,000 grant from the U. S. Army, plan to find out why.Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Jewish students, faculty and staff will celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights, more commonly known as Hanukkah, from Dec. 1–8. Each night, students and others will gather at the stage on Manchester Plaza to light a six-foot menorah.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Senior Bo-Shan Xiang, who is on a mission to build American interest in the study of philosophy, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship. Xiang plans to study metaethics at the University of St. Andrews.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
David Weinstein, a professor of political science and one of Wake Forest’s most prolific scholars in the humanities, often inhabits two intellectual worlds. As he moves between them, he’s extending Wake Forest’s academic reach to Israel, Germany, Italy and England.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
What do Indian food and filmmaking tell us about America? Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Sandya Hewamanne, students Bridget Bagel and Meenu Krishnan conducted research, which they presented at the Conference on South Asia.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Wake Forest students have taken the holiday to those most in need. Volunteers cooked traditional Thanksgiving day meals on campus and delivered them to local agencies as part of Turkeypalooza.
Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements