An important part of a student’s education at Wake Forest is having access to guest speakers and artistic events. There are a couple coming up that may be of interest. On Thursday, October 21st from 4-5:30 pm in the Worrell Center large courtroom, Susan Ivey […]
I received an email the other day from the Office of Academic advising about an exciting opportunity for students to fulfill a divisional requirement this summer in London – under the tutelage of an excellent teacher-scholar here, Christa Colyer of Chemistry (profiled here in 2009 […]
There is a little-known service on campus that bears highlighting: the solar shuttle. It is available to any member of the campus community. Right now it seems like students aren’t fully aware of its existence – or that they can ride it for free […]
Several parents have emailed the Parent Programs office at parents@wfu.edu with questions about the Thanksgiving and Winter breaks and how to schedule flights home for their students. Here’s a few things to consider as you make your student’s travel plans: 1. Check the
The Inside WFU web page features profiles of faculty or staff. For parents of English majors, one of the people you might not meet personally (but will have a profound effect on your students) is Connie Green, administrative assistant in the English department. You can […]
Homecoming was this past weekend, and there are a number of great photo albums online so you can see the events of the weekend. Wake Forest alumni are very loyal and they come back for a great weekend of reunion class events (for all […]
There’s a new article online entitled “Thoughtful About Food,” which is about how we are trying to take food waste and recycle it for other purposes. Here’s a brief excerpt: “Wake Forest’s Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste […]
Wake TV is the student-run cable channel on campus. They research and create their own stories and film a news segment and other programming. The October 4 news program is about 16 minutes long and is available online. The program covers campus events like […]
Allison McWilliams (’95) is the Director of the Mentoring Resource Center on campus. She spoke to the Parents’ Council during their fall meeting on October 1st about mentoring activities at Wake Forest. The Parent Programs office asked her if she’d share her thoughts on mentoring […]
Project Pumpkin, an event sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps, is an annual service event at Wake Forest University that was started in 1988 to bring together the campus and Winston-Salem communities. Each year more than 1,000 children from local agencies are […]
