Two groups of undergraduates helped bring hope and joy to children in Brazil and India while on service trips during winter break. More students will be volunteering across the U.S. next month during “Wake Alternative Break.”

The School of Law’s “Low Bono” Program supports recent graduates who provide low-cost legal assistance to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it.

The Board of Trustees has approved raising undergraduate tuition by 3.5 percent for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the smallest percentage increase since the 1970s.

Ads for Sunday’s Super Bowl cost as much as $3 million for every 30-second spot, but the exposure is worth the expense, says marketing professor Sheri Bridges, an expert on branding and advertising.

Writing is, first and foremost, a thought process. However, our words have a tendency to stray away from our thoughts. Some students think of writing as any other trait or quirk: you’ve either got it or you don’t. The Writing Center aims to demystify this perception of the writing process and provide tangible assistance to students who want to improve their writing. Read more from the Department of English Newsletter.

Some of the world’s best marketing students competed in the Schools of Business Marketing Summit. Relive the action in the Marketing Summit blog.

Columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman will deliver the keynote address at this week’s energy conference, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Wait Chapel.

Fifty years ago, students from Wake Forest joined students from Winston-Salem State to protest segregated lunch counters in downtown Winston-Salem; hear how they helped change history, in their own words.

Business leaders, leading researchers, entrepreneurs and scholars will discuss solutions for America’s growing energy problems during a two-day conference on campus this week.

The Schools of Business MBA program has been ranked among the top 100 programs in the world and among the top 50 in the U.S., according to the Financial Times of London.

Communication professor Allan Louden and Worrell Professor David Coates weigh in on the style and substance of President Obama’s State of the Union address.

The latest public-arts project by Professor of Art and sculptor David Finn, “Sculptural Climbing Wall,” located at a park in Chapel Hill, was dedicated last week.