Inspiring student involvement
Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded "Involve—A Journal of Mathematics," the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Students, faculty and alumni were honored during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, celebrating Wake Forest’s founding, on Feb. 17. The program featured seniors Catherine Berenato, Ashley Gedraitis and Ava Petrash presenting their senior orations.
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, who is directing the "The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre, has included undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff in the production and related events.
If you visited the Mainstage Theatre during one of the many rehearsals for Grapes of Wrath, you would have found senior Suzanne Spicer with her big book — making sure lighting cues, prop usage, costume changes and the entrances and exits of all the performers have been meticulously noted for every act and scene.
Monica Petrescu, who graduated from Wake Forest in May, is the first Wake Forest student or graduate to be awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England.
Props are often vital to a play’s storyline — such as the upcoming “Grapes of Wrath" — but no one ever really thinks about them until the gun doesn’t fire at the right time. “We tend to not pay much attention to props until they’re not working,” said Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre JK Curry, who has edited a recent book on props.
To what extent do romance novels reflect the prominent ideas of the times and to what extent do they shape them? Religion professor Lynn Neal thinks it's a question worth asking given romance novels are a billion-dollar business.