Eleven students traveled to Honduras this winter as part of Global Brigades, a student-led global health and sustainable development organization. They provided communities with financial advice and medical assistance.
School of Medicine students, along with the Northwest Area Health Education Center, will hold the 12th annual “Share the Health” fair on Jan. 15 at Marketplace Mall. Last year, 200 student volunteers participated in the fair and served more than 650 community members.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Celia Quillian, a first-year student from Atlanta, looks back on her first semester and what she learned over the past four months. She is is a Presidential Scholar in theatre.Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
Thanks to senior Kate Masetta and the Global Brigades program, 11 Wake Forest students have been in Honduras for a week to introduce the new Wake Forest Medical Brigade and Microfinance Brigade to service work there.
For the 25th straight year, Wake Forest student-athletes donated their time to deliver personalized, tagged Christmas gifts to needy children all across the city, in a program called Santa’s Helpers.Categories: Athletics, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Thanks to his research on workers’ compensation and employers’ liability law, Daniel Murdock (’12) recently had the chance to represent the School of Law in Vienna, Austria.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Erin Pope, a first-year student from Kenly, N.C., looks back on her first semester and what she learned over the past four months. She is considering majoring in English with a minor in medieval studies.Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Last year, Madhura Manjunath took part in Students Helping Honduras, whose mission focuses on children and education in that country. Working with the local kindergartners inspired Manjunath to return again this year with three fellow students.
Following a tradition started by a student in 1965, more than 2,000 people gathered for the annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candlelight Service in Wait Chapel Sunday night. Chaplain Tim Auman led the service, which featured a message by Gail R. O’Day, dean of the School of Divinity.Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
By 2015, plastic flexible electronics is estimated to be a $30 billion market, according to Oana Jurchescu, assistant professor of physics. Jurchescu and her undergraduate students are working together on the development of these technologies in her lab.