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College faculty retirees, 2020

A guest post from the College

This is the final post in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in 2021 and 2020.

The College honors those who retired at the end of the 2020 academic year. Due to the abbreviated virtual conferring of degrees in 2020, these tremendous teacher-scholars and directors were recognized during this year’s Commencement ceremonies. Enjoy the linked profiles capturing their lasting legacies.

Student-led CAIR to host intercollegiate conference addressing inequity

Ashley Peake (’23) and Tal Feldman (’23)

The Collegiate Association for Inequality Research (CAIR), co-founded by Wake Forest students Tal Feldman (’23) and Ashley Peake (’23), is addressing inequity on a broad scale and supporting students researching solutions with its first major intercollegiate event, the Conference on Inequality and Social Justice, on April 24.

The virtual conference will include 35 oral presentations and 45 poster presentations on topics that will touch on inequity in a variety of fields, from biology and computer science to anthropology and economics. Forty-eight higher education institutions will be represented during the conference, including Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University and New York University, including its campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai.

“Watching this group of students take a nascent idea and develop it to the level of a student-run symposium would be notable in any year, but Tal and Ashley’s efforts are all the more extraordinary in a time marked by COVID-19. They have demonstrated great ambition and perseverance in brainstorming, designing, and executing each step of their increasingly impressive plans. And now they’re bringing together student-scholars from across the country to analyze and propose solutions for some of the most complex challenges facing our world,” said Jackie Sheridan, director of the Scholars Program.

Read more about CAIR and the Conference on Inequality and Social Justice on the College News website

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Three WFU students named 2021 Goldwater Scholars

Joseph McCalmon, Ashley Peake and Samuel Schwartz have been named 2021 Barry S. Goldwater Scholars. The three are among 410 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2021-22 academic year. Photo of three Wake Forest students who have been named 2021 Goldwater Scholars: Ashley Peake, Joseph McCalmon, and Samuel Schwartz

They were selected for the Goldwater Scholarship based on academic merit from a field of more than 5,000 natural sciences, mathematics and engineering students from 438 institutions.

The on-campus preparation and nomination process for the Goldwater Scholarship and other external scholarships is coordinated through the Wake Forest University Scholars Office. Interested students are invited to visit the website to learn more and arrange an appointment.

“The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award for STEM students; its recipients go on to become some of this country’s finest scientists,” said Jackie Sheridan, director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program. “To see three of our students honored as Goldwater Scholars in one year is very exciting—that’s a rare achievement. This is a testament to the quality of the research experiences that Demon Deacons can pursue on Wake’s campus and the level of mentorship embraced by our faculty.”

Visit Wake Forest news for the full story.

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Jackie Sheridan named director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program

Wake Forest welcomes Jackie Sheridan as the new director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program, which supports undergraduates and recent graduates applying for competitive scholarships and fellowships. Sheridan comes to Wake from Jackie Sheridan headshotVanderbilt University, where she spent the past two years as the Associate Director of Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities. She has also been the Senior Program Manager for the Pickering Fellowship at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, and she has an extensive background in interdisciplinary subjects in higher education. Sheridan has quickly settled into the directorship in the Scholars Office, which oversees hundreds of student scholars, and spoken with several scholars. “I’m already impressed with their ideas and initiative. It’s going to be exciting to see them and all of our students grow and learn at Wake Forest University, and then take those skills out into the world to make an even greater impact,” Sheridan said.

Read more about Sheridan on the Dean of the College website.

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Staff and faculty milestones April 2018

See a list of staff and faculty milestones for April 2018:

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