“I’m only 10 days into this program, but I already know I’m making friends for life,” Simone Watson (MA ’14) said. “The students and faculty here are incredibly kind and supportive of each other.”
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In June, sophomore Jamal Garcia participated in a weeklong service project to help clean up the Gateway National Recreation Area, which was severely damaged by superstorm Sandy. Although 5,000 miles from home, Garcia has brought his love for the land to the East Coast and Wake Forest.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Jamie Floyd has come up with a new way to teach music theory. The rising senior is using an Xbox Kinect and a visual programming language called Max to help people recognize different pitches of sound.
Summer isn’t necessarily a vacation for Wake Forest students. From late May to early August, The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest, a student-run service organization, maintains full operations, serving 154 meals per week to underserved members of the Winston-Salem community. During the summer, three interns are at the helm of one of Wake Forest’s flagship service organizations.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 Best Colleges guide ranked Wake Forest 13th among national universities with the best undergraduate teaching. But, the nearly magical interaction between professors and bright students is not limited to classroom, studio, stage or laboratory. Many faculty become mentors for students as they explore academic and extracurricular interests.
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When Jacqueline Sutherland, a senior political science major and incoming Student Government president, moved to Washington, D.C. this summer to intern for the Fox News weekend program, “America’s News Headquarters,” she never imagined her Wake Forest study abroad experience would translate into a national news story idea and so much more.
Attending the international premiere of "The Great Gatsby" was an incredible opportunity for junior Marshall Shaffer. But the lessons he learned as an intern at the Cannes Film Festival will be helpful wherever his future career takes him.
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Casa Artom, Wake Forest’s residential study center on Venice’s Grand Canal, became a gathering place for artists, curators, collectors and art critics during the opening of La Biennale di Venezia this summer.
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
In Rwanda, genocide survivors are making a conscious choice to promote a community based in kindness and forgiveness, healing the city of Kigali, and having a lifelong impact on the lives of Wake Forest students.
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Eleanor Saffian decided to pursue a career as a genetic counselor when her brother Charlie was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth. She is interning at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Down Syndrome Program in Boston this summer.