Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Midwives from Ghana were learning and observing in Winston-Salem last weekend, courtesy of Kybele, an organization started 10 years ago by professor Medge Owen to improve childbirth conditions throughout the world. Categories: Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Admissions information about Wake Forest can now be read in 12 languages, thanks to a campus-wide translation project led by Olgierda Furmanek, the head of the Translation and Interpreting Program.Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Janelle Summerville ('10) turned her trip to Kenya into the inspiration behind last year's Wake Up! events to raise money for Kenya Kids Can!, a program which provides meals for Kenyan children.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Matt Gallagher ('05) planned to use Wake Forest's ROTC program as a step toward being a military lawyer. Instead, 9/11 spurred him into combat, and he turned his online journal into the book, "Kaboom."Categories: Alumni, Global Wake Forest
Two Wake Forest seniors, Cate Berenato and Katherine Sinacore, spent four weeks in Peru this summer helping to determine which programs are best at helping sustain Brazil nut harvesters, their families and the rainforest.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, University Announcements
Wake Forest students Henderson Trefzger and Przemyslaw “Dalton” Wilczewski traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this summer for the Global Model United Nations conference.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Mike Duke, the president and CEO of Wal-Mart, described his company's global growth strategy during the first presentation in the 2010-11 Leading Out Loud lecture series at the Schools of Business. Categories: Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Wake Forest professor Mary Martin Niepold's social entrepreneurship stands out because of her age, writes the Raleigh News & Observer. In her late 60s, she's leading the Nyanya Project, which helps grandmothers raising AIDS orphans in Africa, while most of her peers are 35 and under.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
Categories: Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Global Wake Forest