The busiest time of year at the Campus Kitchen is the week before Thanksgiving as students, faculty and staff come together for Turkeypalooza. Now in its 8th year, Turkeypalooza is a week-long event in which more than 150 volunteers cook locally-sourced Thanksgiving dinners for food-insecure Triad-area residents.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Wake Forest University ranks third among doctoral U.S. colleges and universities in the percentage of students studying abroad, according to the Open Doors report recently published by the Institute of International Education.
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Transformative Giving
Helping patients deal with the pain associated with rising health and dental care costs is a lesson pre-health students won’t soon forget. More than 100 provided hands-on support for a free and portable dental clinic set up by N.C Missions of Mercy.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
STEM incubator brings students from different classes and disciplines together, fostering horizontal relationships where they learn from each other, but also vertical relationships with their faculty mentors.
Justice. Politics. Access. Quality. Insecurity. Production. Deserts. Sustainability. One word that connects all of these words is FOOD. At Wake Forest, references to these terms – food justice, food quality, food politics – can be found everywhere, woven into the fabric of students’ lives through their course work, extra-curricular activities and service learning opportunities.
Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
More than 450 student volunteers welcomed children from nearly 25 local agencies to campus Wednesday afternoon for Project Pumpkin, Wake Forest’s annual student-run Halloween festival.
Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Transformative Giving, University Announcements
Research Day is a highlight of the academic year, showcasing the personal interaction and intellectual exchange between students and faculty.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Despite losing her vision three years ago, Kathryn Webster entered Wake Forest last fall with the goal of pursuing a dual degree in mathematics and business. Faculty and staff found a novel suite of technologies to help her see math clearly.
More than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Wake Forest, universities across the country are making headlines related to race and identity. At a time when Wake Forest has a more diverse study body than ever, the campus community is addressing these challenges together.
Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements, Wellbeing
A Wake Forest tradition, Hit the Bricks is an eight-hour relay race along the brick pathways of Hearn Plaza in honor of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest alumnus and Chicago Bears running back who died of cancer at age 26.
Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements, Wellbeing