Professor waits to hear from Chile
Professor Peter Siavelis, who used to live in Chile, is waiting to hear if former colleagues there are safe after a massive earthquake hit the country on Saturday. The University is not aware of any faculty or students who were in the country at the time of the earthquake.
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Whether in Venice or Vietnam, Steve Duke, director of the Center for International Studies, advises students to go beyond being tourists to interact in significant ways with those who live in the country they are visiting. Making cultural connections is what makes study abroad the most meaningful, he says.
Choosing to attend Wake Forest wasn't taking the easy road in life, senior Kate Miners said in her senior oration at Founders' Day Convocation on Feb. 18.
Professor Emeritus of Art Robert Knott, who led Wake Forest's art department through its formative years and was a guiding inspiration for the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art, died Feb. 18 in Winston-Salem following an illness. He was 68.
"The Threepenny Opera," written in Germany over 80 years ago, has a lot to say about unscrupulous behavior in any era. This operetta of power and corruption, written by poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, proves the world is only one scoundrel away from the next $65 billion Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.