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fered in the 115,000-square-foot Wake Forest Downtown Facility are intended to act as an intersection of many different areas of campus. It is envisioned that undergraduate students in these programs will spend equal time studying liberal arts on the main campus and studying the new biomedical science and engineering classes in the classrooms and labs downtown. “The courses will be partly taught by medical school professors, so it will be a combination of our undergraduate science faculty and the medical faculty — that’s an innovation,” Hatch said. “And then its location downtown in a building contiguous to the new medical school is also an innovation. So all of these factors, in addition to the dynamic place of the innovation quarter will add to the Wake Forest community.”
On March 15, voters across N.C. supported their candidates at the polls. On the Republican side, Donald Trump won with 40 percent of the vote and 30 delegates, followed closely by Ted Cruz with 37 percent and 27 delegates and John Kasich received 13 percent of the vote and nine delegates. Marco Rubio, who has now suspended his campaign, received eight percent and six delegates. In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton won with 55 percent of the vote and was awarded 65 delegates, followed by Bernie Sanders who was awarded 48 delegates with 41 percent of the vote. Forsyth County had strong early voting turnout during this year’s North Carolina presidential primary election with few problems from voter identification issues detected before 12 p.m., according to the county’s new elections director. Final voter turnout numbers showed that 35.1 percent of registed voters in the county showed up to the polls (84,220 out of 239,851 registed voters). Voter turnout was slighly higher than the 2012 primaries. Many people paid special attention to the North Carolina presidential primary election because of the state’s new voter ID law. The new law, which went into effect in Jan. 2016, requires voters to have a governmentissued photo ID. The new law also cut the early voting period from 17 days to 10 days, eliminated same-day registration and a program to pre-register high school students. “There has been some confusion today as to what is acceptable for identification, but no major issues,” said Tim Tsuji, the new director of the Forsyth County Board of Elections. Some polling stations ran out of ballots earlier today and needed new ones delivered. One polling station, at Pfafftown Christian, was still open 40 minutes after it was supposed to close at 7:30 p.m. with over 100 voters waiting in line. The number of provisional ballots given for issues regarding voter ID was not known by the deadline. The voter ID laws, which shortened the early voting period, were projected to have an effect on voter turnout. Many argued that the new law promotes racial discrimination, as racial minorities more often use same-day registration and early voting and
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On Friday, March 18, Wake Forest announced it will expand its undergraduate curriculum by adding programs in engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology.
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grams of the Wake Forest School of Medicine will reside starting this summer. The new undergraduate major in engineering will begin being offered in the fall of 2017. Both the biochemistry interdisciplinary major and concentration in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery are scheduled to be offered starting in January of 2017. “This is an important innovation for Wake Forest and it greatly adds to options for students here in the most interesting way,” said President Nathan Hatch. “The kinds of programs are distinct in that students will still fill all the same liberal arts requirements as other students, but they will be able to get a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or biochemistry and molecular biology.” According to President Hatch, the newly approved courses and programs to be of-