Junior Brandon Turner's research integrates multiple fields and comes under the mentoring eye of Jacque Fetrow, dean of the college. He received the 2010-2011 American Physical Society Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors.
Project Pumpkin magic
Students turned Hearn Plaza into Hogwarts for this year’s Harry Potter-themed Project Pumpkin. The 22nd annual Halloween Festival brought more than 1,100 Winston-Salem area children from local agencies and organizations to campus for an afternoon of scary and not-so-scary fun.
Law student argues in appeals court
Megan Curran, a third-year law student, had a chance to argue before the N.C. Court of Appeals when judges heard arguments in two cases at Worrell Professional Center, the home of the School of Law.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
African adventure
Junior Ashley Millhouse was so inspired by her first trip to Africa that she returned this fall. She's spending fall 2010 in Accra, Ghana, after traveling to Zinkwazi, South Africa, with the University’s Volunteer Service Corps in May.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Law students take on case
Law-school students working with professor Carol Turowski and Wake Forest's Innocence and Justice Clinic are investigating the innocence claim of a former Winston-Salem man who has been convicted twice of killing his lover’s husband in South Carolina.
Dressing the part
When senior Caroline Dignes designs costumes for a play, she helps create a world for actors and audience alike. Her latest project is Moliere’s “Imaginary Cuckold,” which opens this week in the Mainstage Theatre.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Expressions of humanity
Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Students take fall service trip
Ten students spent fall break on a service trip to Cove Creek Farm, a residential retreat for at-risk young men and their families near Boone, N.C. Wake Forest has traditionally offered spring break service trips, but this was the first fall break service trip offered by the university.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Insights on college interviews
As high school students apply to college this fall, Wake Forest's Director of Admissions Martha Allman offers interviewing tips.
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
Giving back to the community
More than 100 faculty and staff members and about 75 students have joined forces to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity this fall. Groups have been working on the house in the Smith Farm neighborhood, near Kernersville.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements