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Spring Family Weekend Registration Begins Today

Deac families, you are going to want to mark your calendars for noon today, because that’s when Spring Family Weekend Registration will go live. Just as they did in the fall, Student Union has crafted a wonderful schedule of events for parents and family members […]


Eureka! (No, URECA)

Yesterday at our departmental staff meeting we had two terrific faculty members, Rebecca Alexander of Chemistry and Shannon Mihalko (’92) of Health and Exercise Science, come to talk to us about the work that they do with URECA. URECA is an acronym […]


On the Eve of Sorority Recruitment

Winter break is wrapping up for the young lady Deacs who will be involved in the sorority recruitment process, which starts with activities most of the day of January 9th.  For the sorority sisters returning, the next days will be a flurry of preparing for […]


Reaction to the NY Times Article

Yesterday the Daily Deac shared an article from the New York times about how parents and students adjust over the winter break.  We solicited comments from Deac families about your own winter break experiences and best advice. We received this very thoughtful response from […]


New York Times on Parents and Winter Break

A colleague of mine sent a very interesting article from the New York Times entitled “The Return of the Natives,” which talks about how students (particularly first year students) and parents have to readjust over Winter Break.  It covers the holiday transition from a […]


The University Reopens

The doors to campus reopened officially this morning at 8:30 after a nice break for the Christmas holiday.  In the life cycle of a university, it isn’t just the students who are feeling burned out at the end of finals, it’s equally our faculty (who […]


Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our Wake Forest families!  We wish you love, peace, joy, health, happiness, and prosperity for 2013! Since the New Year is a time for celebration, here is one of our favorite pictures – it’s our 2011-12 Wake Forest Fellows doing […]


Rake Forest

One of the service projects on campus every fall is Rake Forest.  This is a wonderful shot of a student submerged in the leaves the students have raked. And since it is New Year’s Eve, we wish you and your family a very happy […]


As You Like It

The Daily Deac is a big fan of the arts on campus, and the WFU Theatre is particularly special.  As we continue our look back at the semester in pictures, we present to you this picture from the fall production of As You Like It. […]


Check and Checkmate

We hope you are enjoying the winter break with your students.  Since they are gone (and so are we!) we’re featuring a photo-of-the-day from the fall semester. This great shot shows some of the new tables that are on the Quad.  There are lots of […]


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