Students named to Wake Forest University’s Spring 2016 Dean’s List
$625 million in construction over 10 years enhances residential experience
Wake Forest University is in the midst of a 10-year, $625 million construction effort that reflects the institution’s commitment to offer the best residential college experience in the country.
Categories: Athletics, Campus Life, Community Impact, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Transformative Giving, University Announcements, Wellbeing
Band of brothers
The Pro Humanitate spirit is alive and well in Lins Barwick, as well as the friends and family lining the corridors of a nearby hospital, where he is recovering from injuries sustained during an off-campus shooting.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Chemistry major earns Beckman Scholar award
KyungMin Yoo, a rising junior who is majoring in chemistry, has been selected as Wake Forest’s fifth Beckman Scholar. As part of the Beckman Scholars Program, Yoo will spend two summers working on research related to wound-healing with chemistry professor Mark Welker. She has been working in Welker’s lab for a year.
WFU to hold vigil to honor victims of Orlando shooting
Wake Forest University is holding a brief interfaith gathering today at noon in Davis Chapel to honor the victims and families affected by the mass shooting in Orlando.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
Mighty Mealworms: Solution for food insecurity and pollution
Biology students at Wake Forest University are using mealworms to solve two global problems – food sustainability and plastic pollution.
Tiger moths use signals to warn bats: toxic not tasty
Field research of free-flying bats conducted in their natural habitats by a WFU biology graduate student shows tiger moths produce ultrasonic signals to warn bats that they don’t taste good. This behavior – called acoustic aposematism – was previously proven in biology professor Bill Conner's lab.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
Nine Fulbrights named
When Alex Gibson took a first-year seminar, it inspired him to start an educational outreach program for prison inmates. After graduation, he will continue to combine teaching and service with a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia. He is among nine Wake Forest seniors and recent graduates awarded Fulbright grants for 2016-17.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Wake Forest’s online newsroom gets a dynamic makeover
Today Wake Forest University introduced a new and improved online newsroom (news.wfu.edu) to deliver newsworthy content in a visually-compelling, mobile-responsive and easy-to-navigate design.
Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Finding true north
Kathryn Webster ('17) came to Wake Forest to study math and statistics, which is difficult when you’re sighted let alone blind. Her professor and a college administrator helped her by adapting technology to create a way for her to read and write the visual code necessary to study higher level statistics. That’s pretty important considering she wants to be an actuarial scientist.
Categories: Experiential Learning