Wake Forest Magazine, June 2009 - Past Issues - Wake Forest ...
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The new Web<br />
<strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> has begun<br />
a redesign of its Web<br />
site with the launch of a new home<br />
page and about a dozen other pages.<br />
Read more about it, and give us your<br />
opinion, in our blog, “Refresh.”<br />
http://website.blogs.wfu.edu<br />
a r o u n d th e e-QUAD<br />
read more about these stories at www.wfu.edu/magazine or by following the link in<br />
each story. For daily news, visit window on wake forest at www.wfu.edu/wowf.<br />
Studying genocide<br />
Students in professor<br />
Trevor Dodman’s<br />
freshman writing<br />
seminar tackled an emotional<br />
topic this spring: genocide-from<br />
the Holocaust to present-day<br />
Sudan-and interviewed survivors<br />
of Hitler’s death camps.<br />
www.wfu.edu/wowf/faculty<br />
The Class of <strong>2009</strong><br />
About 940 undergraduates<br />
received their diplomas<br />
in May. From two debate champions<br />
to two students recognized by USA<br />
Today; from a Carnegie Foundation<br />
Fellow to the winner of a theatre<br />
competition, it was an extraordinary<br />
class. Meet several of them in Senior<br />
Profiles.<br />
www.wfu.edu/apply/profiles<br />
Faculty Q&As<br />
The financial meltdown,<br />
the global food crisis,<br />
bioethics, the tax code, and<br />
the Cuban embargo: <strong>Wake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong>’s faculty experts address<br />
pressing topics in weekly Q&As.<br />
www.wfu.edu/wowf/faculty<br />
‘Seven Things You Probably Didn’t<br />
Know About Your Mother (So Dear)’<br />
Jenny Puckett (’71, P ’00) takes students and alumni<br />
on a “tour” of the history of <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> in her “Last Lecture,”<br />
and introduces the characters-from Harold Tribble to Shorty Joyner, to<br />
Archie Bunker to the Demon Deacon-who shaped the University over<br />
the last 60 years.<br />
www.wfu.edu/wowf/<strong>2009</strong>/<strong>2009</strong>0409.seventhings.html<br />
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