ITS Students interpret for renowned Beijing Opera Artist Suosen Lyu

On Jan 24, 2020, three Interpreting & Translation Studies (ITS) graduate students (Tong Wu, Yuzhu Zhang, and Hongyu Lu) traveled to Columbia, South Carolina to interpret for Professor  Lyu, a renowned Opera artist from Beijing, film director and professor of the National Academy of Chinese […]


19th Annual Graduate Student Research Day Winners

On Friday, March 22, 2019, over 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences presented their research projects via poster presentations and a Three-Minute Thesis competition. Research presentations spanned WFU’s 30+ graduate programs including biomedical research, liberal […]


WFU leading the Interpreting Team for Pope Francis at WYD in Panama

The 16th World Youth Day was celebrated in Panama January 22-27, 2019.  Dr. Olgierda Furmanek, Director of the Interpreting and Translation Studies Program, was appointed by the Organizing Committee and the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, chief-interpreter and team leader to help select, […]


ITS student Wins Prestigious ATA Translation Award

Devin Gilbert, MA in Interpreting and Translation Studies (WFU 2018) received the Student Translation Award from the American Translators Association (ATA) for the year 2018 for his project on translating Ondjaki’s novel Os da minha rua from Angolan Portuguese into English. This annual award […]


Counseling MA Student Awarded $8,000 in Fellowship from NBCC

Winston-Salem, NC—The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected Felix Morton IV of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program-Youth (MFP-Y). As an NBCC MFP-Y Fellow, Morton will receive funding and training to support his education […]


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