Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
More than 2,000 people filled Wait Chapel to hear former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “Rethinking Success” keynote address about the state of America and the role of higher education. For junior Taylor Parsons (’13), a classical studies and philosophy double major, her advice struck a chord. Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Relationships between faculty and students are a Wake Forest cornerstone. While such connections are made every day, the annual Big Campus Connect – a weeklong series of events promoting faculty-student engagement in informal settings – offers an opportunity to put down the textbooks and have fun together outside the classroom.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery
One might expect that Bill Zandi (’13), the son of Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, an accomplished businessman and Wharton graduate, might follow in his father's footsteps. And in many ways, he is. But Bill has also chosen a different path – to major in philosophy.Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Though junior Ariella Akeza was born in the U.S., her family's experiences during the civil war in Burundi have inspired her to help educate others that human rights are imperative for global peace.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
How is senior Ally Landuyt distinguishing herself from other job candidates in advertising? By strategically marketing her liberal arts education to potential employers, she believes the intersection of her double major in economics and anthropology is truly an advantage. Categories: Experiential Learning, Personal & Career Development, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
A conversation on a summer’s night at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., doesn’t always change the course of your life. But for Caroline Hales (’13), that chance conversation led to the founding of her business, Borrow Me Pretty.
Categories: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Experiential Learning
Two School of Medicine students used role playing to illustrate the health disparities of rural residents and won the first Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity Bowl. The competition encouraged collaboration among fields of study as a way to solve complex health disparity problems.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Wake Forest junior J’Taime Lyons of Whitakers, N.C., is among a distinguished group of undergraduate students nationwide who have been named 2012 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.