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September 9, 1999  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, University Announcement

DNA PIONEER TO SPEAK AT WAKE FOREST James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the structure of DNA, will deliver Wake Forest’s Opening Convocation address at 11 a.m. on Sept. 16 in Wait Chapel. Watson’s address is part of “Science & Technology: The […]

Church asked not to perform ceremonies

September 8, 1999  |   School of Divinity, University Announcement

An ad hoc committee of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees has asked Wake Forest Baptist Church not to perform same-gender union ceremonies in the university’s facilities. The committee, appointed last March by trustee chairman John G. Medlin Jr., met a number of times […]

WFU cancels opening convocation

September 7, 1999  |   University Announcement

Wake Forest University has canceled its Opening Convocation on Sept. 16. A number of participants in the convocation program were not able to attend the event due to difficult travel conditions stemming from Hurricane Floyd. The university will not reschedule the event. However, the […]

WFU announces 1999-2000 Secrest Artists Series

September 7, 1999  |   Arts & Culture, Events, University Announcement

Wake Forest University’s Secrest Artists Series will include everything from chamber music to ragtime to West African song and dance in its five-concert 1999-2000 season. The Vienna Chamber Orchestra with conductor and piano soloist Phillipe Entremont will open the series on Oct. 13 as Wake […]

WFU announces 1999-2000 theater season

September 7, 1999  |   Arts & Culture, Events

The Wake Forest University Theater season will open Sept. 24 with “Goodbye, My Fancy,” a romantic comedy by Fay Kanin. The setting of “Goodbye, My Fancy” is the Good Hope College for Women, where the play’s heroine, Congresswoman Agatha Reed, had been expelled 20 years […]

Health service distributing antibiotic, student’s condition improving

September 6, 1999  |   Media Advisory, University Announcement

Approximately 150 Wake Forest University students have taken a preventive antibiotic in response to a fellow student being diagnosed this week with bacterial meningitis, an infection of the fluid of a person’s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. The student, junior Ann […]

Calloway School receives grant from Duke Energy

September 2, 1999  |   School of Business, University Announcement

The Duke Energy Corporation awarded Wake Forest University’s Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy a $500,000 grant. The grant was presented in honor of the late Thomas H. Davis, a member of Duke Energy’s board of directors from 1978-1990. The grant was made possible […]

Scholar to speak on music, Holocaust

September 1, 1999  |   Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers

Music researcher Elizabeth Jordan will present “The Holocaust: Musicians and Choices” on Sept. 9 at Wake Forest University. Jordan’s lecture about the Third Reich’s effect on music and musicians during Adolph Hitler’s reign in Germany will begin at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. The […]

Stories this week at Wake Forest

September 1, 1999  |   Campus Life, Events, Research, Speakers, Student, University Announcement

RESEARCHING A PIRATE SHIP FOCUS OF TALK The investigation of a shipwreck believed to be Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s lost flagship, will be the focus of a talk by Mark Wilde-Ramsing at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at the Museum of Anthropology. Wilde-Ramsing is an underwater […]

DNA researcher, Nobel Laureate will begin year

August 27, 1999  |   Events, Research, School of Medicine, Speakers, University Announcement

James D. Watson, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and pioneer of DNA research, will kick off Wake Forest University’s yearlong celebration of “Science and Technology: The Next Millennium” on Sept. 16. Watson will speak at the university’s Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. in Wait Chapel. […]

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