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
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
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
Research shows that college internships can be one of the quickest routes to full-time employment after graduation. That’s one of the reasons why Wake Forest involves students in the internship process very early in their college years.
The Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste. One possible solution is an organic waste recycling system that works as a dehydrator.
Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
Admissions information about Wake Forest can now be read in 12 languages, thanks to a campus-wide translation project led by Olgierda Furmanek, the head of the Translation and Interpreting Program.
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
The work of 127 Wake Forest students was displayed at the fourth annual Undergraduate Research Day. Students earned funding for their projects, then executed them on campus or internationally with guidance from a faculty mentor.
Janelle Summerville ('10) turned her trip to Kenya into the inspiration behind last year's Wake Up! events to raise money for Kenya Kids Can!, a program which provides meals for Kenyan children.
Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
The "Transforming Race Art Exhibition," a joint effort between the Winston-Salem Human Relations Department and Wake Forest's art department, opens with a public reception today at the START Gallery in Reynolda Village.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Two Wake Forest seniors, Cate Berenato and Katherine Sinacore, spent four weeks in Peru this summer helping to determine which programs are best at helping sustain Brazil nut harvesters, their families and the rainforest.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, University Announcements