Wake Forest preparing for presidential debate
April 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
Since announcing that it will host a presidential debate, Wake Forest University has been busy with numerous preliminary preparations, ranging from making plans for registering volunteers to developing classes and events to complement the debate. The university has also created an official logo for […]
Students gather oral history of Winston-Salem’s integration
April 24, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Valuing Diversity
Last November, when Wake Forest University junior Sarah Yaramishyn listened to Bill Stephens talk about his part in the 1960 Winston-Salem sit-ins, she got it on tape. Yaramishyn was one of seven Wake Forest students and seven Winston-Salem State University students who set out […]
WFU symposium concludes with environmental ethics lecture
April 24, 2000 | Community, Events, Research, Speakers
Wake Forest University’s “Environment 2000” symposium will conclude with a talk by environmental ethics expert Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Rasmussen will speak at 4 p.m. April 27 in Winston Hall, Room A. His topic is “Sustainable Development […]
WFU’s upcoming theme year will focus on ethics, honor
April 24, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, University Announcement
Wake Forest University will celebrate the Year of Ethics and Honor with a series of events during the 2000-2001 academic year. “The year will focus attention on the complexity and necessity of dealing with ethical issues in all domains of life and the questions […]
ADL thanks Wake Forest president for response to The Revisionist
April 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed its gratitude to Wake Forest University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. for the university’s response to the distribution of a Holocaust denial publication on campus. Brittanie Zelkind Werbel, associate director for the ADL in North Carolina, recently wrote a […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
April 19, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers, University Announcement
MAYA WEAVER DEMONSTRATES HER CRAFT Today, weaver Rosalina Santiz Diaz from Chiapas, Mexico, will demonstrate traditional and contemporary Maya weaving and answer questions about the craft from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Museum of Anthropology. Maya women have been weaving since Pre-Columbian times, […]
Choirs to perform music of Aaron Copland
April 18, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest University Concert Choir and Collegium Vocal Ensemble will present a concert featuring the music of Aaron Copland on the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The free concert begins at 8 p.m. April 27 in Brendle Recital Hall. The Concert Choir will […]
Wake Forest Editor’s Office wins award for publications
April 18, 2000 | University Announcement
The Wake Forest University Editor’s Office has received the Grand Gold Medal for Overall Publications Programs-the top higher education publications award in the country-in this spring’s national Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence awards competition. Entrants were asked to submit […]
Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, will deliver WFU’s commencement address
April 17, 2000 | Commencement, Media Advisory, Speakers, University Announcement
John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 15. A total of 1,393 undergraduate and graduate students will receive diplomas during the 9 a.m. outdoor ceremony on […]
N.C.’s first cardiac rehab program celebrates 25 years of healing hearts
April 17, 2000 | Events, Speakers, University Announcement
The cardiac rehabilitation program at Wake Forest University, the first such program in North Carolina and one of the first in the nation, will celebrate its 25th anniversary in May. To help mark the anniversary, Dr. Barry Franklin, exercise physiologist and president of the […]
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