WFU forms Presidential Transition Committee
January 31, 2005 | University Announcement
Wake Forest University has formed a Presidential Transition Committee following the recent election of Nathan O. Hatch to serve as the university’s 13th president. Hatch, provost at the University of Notre Dame, will become president July 1. He will succeed Thomas K. Hearn Jr., Wake […]
ADVISORY: Media invited to Founders’ Day Convocation featuring James Carville
January 31, 2005 | Media Advisory, Speakers
The media are invited to Wake Forest University to attend Founders’ Day Convocation featuring James Carville at 11 a.m. Feb. 3 in the university’s Wait Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Carville will not be available for interviews. During convocation, the […]
Stories this week at WFU
January 27, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events, Media Advisory, Speakers
WFU CELEBRATES THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER – Wake Forest will celebrate the year of the rooster with costumes, crafts, food and games at its sixth annual Chinese New Year Festival from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Jan. 29 in Reynolds Gym, Room 201. Organizers expect […]
Opera singer Diane Thornton to perform benefit concert at WFU
January 27, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest Music Department will co-sponsor a benefit concert for Cancer Services Inc. of Winston-Salem at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in Brendle Recital Hall. The concert will feature cancer survivor and renowned opera singer Diane Thornton and pianist Ruskin Cooper. Admission to the concert […]
WFU professor, students help local residents file taxes
January 26, 2005 | Community, Events
Accounting students at Wake Forest University will offer free tax-filing assistance to local residents beginning Feb. 1 at the Joblink Lab located in the Goodwill Industries building at 2701 University Parkway. The Wake Forest site will operate every Tuesday in February and March from 4 […]
Anthropology Museum highlights African culture for spring after-school programs
January 26, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will focus on African culture during their spring after-school program, “Exploring World Cultures.” The four-part program, geared for children in grades 1-5, is designed to work in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit, “Spirit Influences on the Arts of Power: […]
WFU theatre presents ancient story of ‘Antigone’
January 26, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest Theatre Department will present a Timberlake Wertenbaker adaptation of “Antigone” written by Sophocles as the first show of the spring semester. The production will run Feb. 11-12 and Feb. 16-19 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. All shows will […]
WFU’s Art Gallery presents ‘Young Americans’ and ‘Memoirs of a Beast’
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will present two new exhibits that will run from Feb.10 through March 24. “Young Americans,” curated by Heather Stephens and Megan Bush, co-owners of the 31GRAND Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., will be exhibited in the Main […]
African exhibit to open at WFU’s Anthropology Museum
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
“Spirit Influences on the Arts of Power: The David and Karina Rilling Collection of African Art” will open Feb. 11 at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit, which explores how objects connected to the spirit world become essential to governing and decision-making in […]
Violinist Joshua Bell to perform for WFU’s Secrest Artists Series
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell will perform at Wake Forest University in the fourth concert of the university’s Secrest Artists Series at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in Wait Chapel. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Bell was originally scheduled to perform Feb. 10, but organizers […]
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