- Students become partners, not just volunteers, at Generations Center
An Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness collaboration with Wake Forest won a statewide Community Partner of the Year award.
The Creative Care class teaches students how to be empathetic, effective volunteers.
Students partner with adults living with memory loss or frailty to create poems for an “arts as medicine” project.
- From Classroom to Conference: Student Experiences at SETC
In early March 2026, 12 students packed their portfolios, sharpened their pitches, and traveled to Tennessee to attend the Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC), one of the largest networks of theatre practitioners in the country. Made possible by the Campo Fund for Experiential Learning, the trip gave students four days to participate in design competitions and acting workshops, audition for competitive roles, and network with professionals in the field. Students seized every opportunity to showcase their work to an audience of industry experts and gained invaluable skills that will stay with them long after graduation.
- Experiential Learning in Theatre: Harold Pinter’s Old Times and Memory
For months, students in Wake Forest’s Theatre Department have been reflecting on memories: what they are, how they show up in daily life, and what it means for one’s memory to be distorted by the present.
In Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Dr. Cindy Gendrich, Professor of Theatre, students engage with these themes in a way that extends far beyond memorizing lines and rehearsing choreography. As a psychology major with minors in neuroscience and theatre, Assistant Director Nancy Huang (’27) invites the whole team — from the cast members to the stage crew — to explore the play from an interdisciplinary approach, bridging research with the embodied experience of bringing a character to life on stage. The result is a powerful production that connects classroom learning with real, lived experience.
- Senior Eli Leadham Wins Prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship
Eli Leadham has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of just 150 students worldwide to pursue a fully-funded master’s program in global affairs at Tsinghua University. A sociology major from Portland, Oregon, Leadham plans to spend the year abroad advocating for transitional justice and human rights on a global scale.
- Dr. Smith’s Black Entrepreneurship Course Connects Students with Community Leaders for Real-World Engagement
Brave Spaces, Entrepreneurship, and Food. These are the words at the heart of Dr. Ariel D. Smith’s course, “Black Entrepreneurship in America” (ENT 304C).
An elective in the Center for Entrepreneurship, the class tells United States history through the lens of Black entrepreneurs, whose contributions and experiences helped lay the foundation of entrepreneurship in America today.
An Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness collaboration with Wake Forest won a statewide Community Partner of the Year award. The Creative Care class teaches students how to be empathetic, effective volunteers. Students partner with adults living with memory loss or frailty to create poems for an “arts as medicine” project.
In early March 2026, 12 students packed their portfolios, sharpened their pitches, and traveled to Tennessee to attend the Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC), one of the largest networks of theatre practitioners in the country. Made possible by the Campo Fund for Experiential Learning, the trip gave students four days to participate in design competitions and acting workshops, audition for competitive roles, and network with professionals in the field. Students seized every opportunity to showcase their work to an audience of industry experts and gained invaluable skills that will stay with them long after graduation.
For months, students in Wake Forest’s Theatre Department have been reflecting on memories: what they are, how they show up in daily life, and what it means for one’s memory to be distorted by the present. In Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Dr. Cindy Gendrich, Professor of Theatre, students engage with these themes in a way that extends far beyond memorizing lines and rehearsing choreography. As a psychology major with minors in neuroscience and theatre, Assistant Director Nancy Huang (’27) invites the whole team — from the cast members to the stage crew — to explore the play from an interdisciplinary approach, bridging research with the embodied experience of bringing a character to life on stage. The result is a powerful production that connects classroom learning with real, lived experience.
Eli Leadham has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of just 150 students worldwide to pursue a fully-funded master’s program in global affairs at Tsinghua University. A sociology major from Portland, Oregon, Leadham plans to spend the year abroad advocating for transitional justice and human rights on a global scale.
Brave Spaces, Entrepreneurship, and Food. These are the words at the heart of Dr. Ariel D. Smith’s course, “Black Entrepreneurship in America” (ENT 304C). An elective in the Center for Entrepreneurship, the class tells United States history through the lens of Black entrepreneurs, whose contributions and experiences helped lay the foundation of entrepreneurship in America today.