Wake Forest University

VIDEO: Gwen Ifill Delivers Address To Wake Forest Graduates

Gurnal Scott — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:31:59 +0000

About 1,000 undergraduates and 600 graduate students received degrees at Wake Forest University's commencement exercises today. The school's Class of 2013 includes 11 recipients of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Those students will be taking on post-graduate work ranging from researching regenerative medicine in Sweden to teaching Vietnamese children.

PBS journalist Gwen Ifill delivered the commencement address and urged the graduates to keep several promises.

Philosophers And Theologians Study Character

Jeff Tiberii — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:10:00 +0000

Wake Forest University has entered the next phase of its research project studying morality and character. The school previously called on psychologists to perform behavioral studies. Philosophy Professor Christian Miller says that empirical data is the foundation for the character research. Now, philosophers and theologians will look at the issue.

Online Options Growing For College Students

Dave DeWitt — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:10:00 +0000

Some of the country’s premier universities are partnering to form an innovative online classroom program.

A student at Duke or Wake Forest or UNC-Chapel Hill has a dizzying array of classes to choose from on campus. But some of those classes might not be exactly what they want or need, or the classes may not be offered when they need them. A new partnership called Semester Online aims to change that. The idea is to teach certain classes online, creating an even larger pool of courses for students not only at Duke, Carolina, and Wake, but also at Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and a dozen other elite universities. Duke Provost Peter Lang says it will be a great opportunity for students.

Wake Forest Debate

Frank Stasio and Shawn Wen — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0000

Many voters are looking forward to the Presidential debates this election year, but competitive debaters might say that the civil discourse of our times has given up on formal argumentation. True debate depends on a certain openness and on the possibility that minds can change on the strength of a well-crafted argument. Wake Forest University has an award-winning debate team and their members are already preparing for the upcoming season.

Duke Leads ACC Grad Rates

Dave DeWitt — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Duke is leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in a statistic not frequently reported in the sports pages. The Blue Devils topped the league in the percentage of student-athletes who graduated in 6 years.

97 percent of the student-athletes who came to Duke in 2004 graduated by 2010. That ties Boston College for the best rate in the ACC. The NCAA graduation rate does not take into account student-athletes who leave school in good academic standing.

Researchers Hope to Better Predict World Events

Jeff Tiberii — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:30:00 +0000

Wake Forest University researchers are participating in a project aimed at better projecting upcoming world events.

Instead of using traditional experts, researchers are now enlisting about 1500 everyday citizens as part of a new crowdsourcing model. Wake Forest Associate Psychology Professor Eric Stone says researchers hope to one day better predict political uprisings, terrorist attacks, and even World Cup Winners.

Marketing in the New Retail Industry

Will Michaels — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:22:00 +0000

Marketing professionals are helping launch a program at Wake Forest University designed to explore new ways to appeal to consumers. The school says it's partnering with marketing companies to teach students how the retail industry is changing. The project's executive director Roger Beahm says online purchases are increasing, which changes the way manufacturers have to present their products.

Colleges Check for Bedbugs as Students Return

Eric Hodge — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Bedbugs have recently been found on the campus of Wake Forest University. Officials say dogs discovered evidence of the pests in a very small number of dorm rooms. Those rooms have been treated and are expected to be free of bedbugs as students arrive. Michael Waldvogel is an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina Statue University. He says N.C. State and Wake Forest use heat generating equipment to deal with any outbreaks of bedbugs.

WFU Reacts To Today Show Story

Dave DeWitt — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Wake Forest University officials are reacting to a report that aired yesterday on The Today Show. In the story, former student Maggie Hurt claims the school mishandled a sexual assault investigation in 2009.

MLK Speaks of Dream at Wake Forest

Leoneda Inge — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:50:00 +0000

Eric Hodge: An audience at Wake Forest University was among the first to hear parts of Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech. King delivered the address 10 months before the historic speech in Washington, DC. Inge reports.

On October 11, 1962 – Martin Luther King Junior spoke at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University.