A week or two ago the Daily Deac had featured a column about The Decline and Fall of the English Major. It was an interesting read and a compelling one, at least from my perspective as holding two degrees in English (both from WFU). […]
There is no shortage of remarkable Wake Forest students with compelling stories. Today, there is a terrific feature in the Winston-Salem Journal about Eleanor Saffian , a rising senior, and her work with research on Down Syndrome. Eleanor’s younger brother, Charlie, has Down Syndrome […]
The first session of summer school is coming to a close, with finals taking place now. Summer school is always a rigorous affair, because you are digesting a semester’s worth of material in about half the time. But there are distinct advantages too – as […]
Last night, one of my friends on Facebook who is a WFU alumna posted a link to an editorial in the Sunday Review of the New York Times entitled “The Decline and Fall of the English Major.” We were English majors at Wake Forest together, […]
I love it when we stumble upon good work done by our alumni. This past Friday, one of our Communication professors, Allan Louden, posted on the Documentary Film Program Facebook page that two of our alumni, Sam Smartt (’09, MA ’13) and Chris Zaluski […]
There is a very interesting story on the main WFU web site about a study being conducted by our Clinical Research Center. The gist of it is that strength training in older adults with knee osteoarthritis could help them avoid surgery (full story here). […]
Commencement was held yesterday on the Quad, and there is much to say about it. First, we had some terrific speakers. Gwen Ifill was the main event. Her speech talked about caring about something and doing things that matter, and I think it would […]
It’s Reading Day on campus. That is the one day break between classes ending and final exams beginning. The day is grey and overcast. It is neither cold nor hot. Somehow that seems appropriate. Looming finals always felt ominous to me as a student, and […]
It’s May Day, and the last day of classes before finals. Depending on how you look at it, this May Day could be one of several things: – Mayday as a distress call. Wikipedia defines it this way: “Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress […]
We’ve been having a string of absolutely glorious days on campus. Shorts weather, voleyball on the sand courts weather, reading your homework on the Quad grass weather. Best time of year, in my opinion. Tomorrow we will be hosting Campus Day for Accepted Students. There […]
