Second to Last Day of Classes
In this Issue:
- Late Night Breakfast recap
- Final exam resources
- Phishing and impersonation schemes on the rise
- Senior wins Elite 90™ Award for NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship
It’s the second to last day of Classes! We’re almost there, Deacs!
Late Night Breakfast recap
Late Night Breakfast was held last night from 10 p.m.-midnight. Students were treated to a variety of comforting breakfast foods: pancakes were the big winner (at least at my station – I could barely keep up with the demand).
I always love working Late Night Breakfast because the students seem so genuinely blown away that they can get all of this food – for free – served to them by staff and faculty. And your children made this mother’s heart proud: I think without fail, every student I served said ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ or ‘yes, ma’am,’ etc.
Here are some pictures of the festivities.
Many thanks to all the staff of The Pit who were the real heros of the night, especially Miss Joe and Shakira, who kept our station full of piping hot food all night!
Final exam resources
Final exams are always a high-stress time for students. Happily, many colleagues across campus know this and look for ways to help students.
One common challenge is finding a place to study for finals. The exam period tends to jam pack the ZSR Library, so students may need to find other space. The College has complied this Wake Study Space website to help students find a study spot. In addition, there are campus buildings with common areas with extended hours.
ZSR really goes all out during finals. They host Wake the Library, which provides not just a place to study, but free food, giveaways, stress relieving events, and more. Your Deacs can see the Wake the Library schedule for hours, events (Stress Less Fest), when the UCC (University Counseling Center) Fairies will be visiting, food giveaways and more.
Phishing and impersonation schemes on the rise
Information Systems has shared that “This week, a chain reaction of phishing attempts targeted official WFU accounts. The phishing emails lured the recipient with an invitation to a ‘collaboration document’ that was very convincingly branded. However, upon closer inspection, the URL was not as expected, nor was the sender’s email address.
Hackers used publicly available information to target WFU users with messages from what appeared to be Wake Forest executives in their departments to a phony ‘collaboration site’ where the hackers could then capture WFU email passwords and Google MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) codes. Once the accounts were compromised, they were used to send out a second wave of phony job offer emails to additional WFU accounts.
As a reminder, students should never share their password or Multi-Factor Authentication code.”
Please encourage your students to be skeptical of unsolicited offers and take time to investigate the legitimacy of the message, using the tips shown in this post from IS.
Senior wins Elite 90™ Award for NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship
Senior Laurel Ansbrow “is the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2024 NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship. She is the first Wake Forest student athlete for any sport to win the award.
Ansbrow, majoring in Health & Exercise Science, currently carries a 4.0 GPA. She was presented with the award during a team dinner Wednesday night in Cary, N.C….
The Elite 90, an award founded by the NCAA, recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers. The Elite 90 is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s championships.”
You can read the full story here.
As one of my colleagues in Athletics described it, this is a “huge” award. This award essentially signifies that Laurel is the best student of all the athletes competing in Division I women’s soccer, which I am told is about 10,000 students.
Congratulations to Laurel for making us proud on and off the field!