Fourteen seniors named Wake Forest Fellows

Fourteen seniors will remain at Wake Forest following graduation as Wake Forest Fellows, working in the President's Office, Information Systems, University Advancement and in other offices. Each fellow will be a full-time University employee for a year. In addition to working in a particular department, the fellows will participate in leadership activities and interact with top administrators and faculty to learn about higher-education administration.

D.E.S.K. project a hit with students

Hundreds of Wake Forest students and students from Old Town Elementary School got together recently to custom-paint desks for the elementary students to take home with them so they would have a place to do their homework, during the annual D.E.S.K. project.

Categories: Experiential Learning


‘Why Do People Laugh?’

Cindy Gendrich will use a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a first-year seminar on comedy and humor. Cindy Gendrich is one of those people who can't stop herself from laughing, sometimes too loudly and at inappropriate times. A professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Gendrich has received a $24,800 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her proposal, “Why do people laugh?”, to study the complexities of humor and to develop a first-year seminar.

Fellowship and scholarship: Program supports top students through mentoring and guidance

Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78), director of the Wake Forest Scholars program, helps students like Rhodes Scholarship national finalist Patrick Nelli (’09) find paths to success. The Wake Forest Scholars program, launched in 2003, coordinates efforts to encourage and assist students in post-graduate scholarship and fellowship competitions. As its director, Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78) guides students through the painstaking process of completing applications, writing essays and securing references. He’s also there to offer alternatives and ease anxieties—knowing that post-graduation awards are just one path to success.

Debaters featured in New York Times

Seniors Sam Crichton and Will Sears, who made the “Final Four” in the National Debate Tournament, are featured in a New York Times article about some debate teams using computers rather than paper files.

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