Archaeological adventure
With help from the Richter Scholarship program this summer, anthropology major Hope Scofield joined a field school program sponsored by the Balkan Heritage Foundation. In Bulgaria, she uncovered ceramic storage containers, coins and marble decorative pieces.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Wake Forest and the Wake Forest Native American Student Association (NASA) have planned several events this November.
Wake Forest's nationally competitive debate team moved from paper evidence files to digital this year, allowing it to become the first top-tier debate team in the country to go “open source” and share all its evidence and arguments online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.