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How the performing arts can teach kids concepts in science

April 29, 2024

The second graders begin using their body movements to demonstrate how the snowman turns to liquid from the heat. As the kids wiggle their way up and down to the floor and get creative with their responses, they are experiencing hands-on learning and mastering one of the State of North Carolina’s science standards. It’s all part of an innovative program called Theatre in Education.
Wake Forest University is collaborating with Speas Elementary and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools for the initiative.
Sixteen WFU education and theater students are working with seven classes of Speas second graders this spring using the performing arts to teach lessons on weather patterns, the properties of liquids and solids and other science topics.

Categories: University Announcements

2024 student art-acquisition trip selections unveiled

April 19, 2024

Every four years since 1963, a small group of students has traveled to New York City, with University funds, to purchase art for Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. This year they purchased nine works.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning

Applied mathematics major Shelby Horth named Goldwater Scholar

April 27, 2023

Wake Forest junior and Mullen/Carswell Scholar Shelby Horth has been named a 2023 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. She is one of 413 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2023-24 academic year

Categories: Awards & Recognition, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements

Wake Forest senior Alice Hauser named Rhodes Scholar

November 13, 2022

Philosophy and Piano Performance major Alice Hauser has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at England’s Oxford University beginning in the fall of 2023. She was among 32 Americans chosen by the Rhodes Trust on Nov. 12.

Categories: Awards & Recognition, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning

Three WFU students awarded Fulbright Scholarships

May 19, 2022

Three Wake Forest students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning

Sociology class uses 1950 Census to create work history family trees

May 6, 2022

When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.

Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery

Two Wake Forest students and friends named Goldwater Scholars

April 13, 2022

Wake Forest students Landon Bradshaw (left in the photo above) and John Billos (on the right) have been named 2022 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. The two are among 417 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2022-23 academic year.

Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning

High Performance Computing: Collaborations power research & learning

March 31, 2022

In a temperature-controlled room located in an out-of-the-way part of campus, rows of computers are humming, blinking and whirring in a High-Performance Computing Center called the DEAC Cluster.

Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements

Wake students to dance, raise money for cancer research

March 15, 2022

Students dance on stage in front of a large crowd

At age 5 months, Wake Forest sophomore Gabrielle Peko was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer. After undergoing chemotherapy treatments and some surgeries, she was pronounced in remission at age 2. On Saturday, March 19, Peko will join more than 1,000 Wake students at Wake ‘N Shake, an annual dance marathon that raises money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. The event runs from noon to midnight in the Sutton Center.

Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake