Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 16, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Research, Speakers
Nobel Laureate to Speak at Opening Convocation Oscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will deliver the Opening Convocation address, “Diversity, Globalization, and Human Security: A Call to Responsibility,” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in Wait […]
Sorvay Talks About Work to Expose Germany’s Neo-Nazis
September 16, 1998 | Events, Speakers
Yaron Svoray, journalist and author of “In Hitler’s Shadow,” will speak at Wake Forest University on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Benson University Center, Room 401. The Israeli son of Holocaust survivors risked his life to expose the growing threat of Germany’s […]
Popular Math Expert Brings Soap Bubble Secrets to WFU
September 15, 1998 | Community, Research, Speakers
Mere millionths of an inch thick, found in countless bathtubs and toy stores, soap bubbles nevertheless are more than just efficient enclosers of air says popular math columnist, TV show host and award-winning professor Frank Morgan. They teach us a lot about the math found […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 10, 1998 | Community, Events, Research
High Schoolers from 35 States to Debate Wake Forest’s debate team will host the National Earlybird Forensics Tournament Sept. 11-13. More than 160 high school debate and speech squads will arrive on Friday, Sept. 11, from 35 states to compete in the three-day season opener. […]
WFU to Host Thornton Wilder Symposium
September 9, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
A. Tappan Wilder, nephew of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder, will discuss his famous uncle at “Thornton Wilder’s Legacy,” a symposium Wake Forest University will host Sept. 25-26. The symposium will begin with a lecture by A. Tappan Wilder at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon, […]
WFU Theater Season Opens with Wilder’s “Matchmaker”
September 9, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker,” the basis for the hit Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly,” will open at Wake Forest University Sept. 25. The University Theater production continues Sept. 26 and 30 and Oct. 1-4. Directed by Donald Wolfe, the fast-paced farce has people hiding under tables, […]
Japanese Pianist Opens WFU’s Secrest Artist Series
September 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s 1998-99 Secrest Artists Series will open Friday, Sept. 18, with Chitose Okashiro, a Japanese-born pianist who has recently received accolades for her recordings of music by the Russian composer Scriabin. Okashiro will perform at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. Her program […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, Student
Abstract Art Show Opens Heralded as the “can’t miss art exhibition this year” by Forbes magazine (Aug. 24), the show “Abstract American Art of the 1930s and 1940s” opens Aug. 28 in Wake Forest’s Fine Arts Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 7-9 […]
Year of Globalization Foreign Film Festival Begins
September 1, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Year of Globalization and Diversity Foreign Film Festival begins Sept. 14 with the German film, “Aguirre: the Wrath of God.” The 1972 film focuses on Lope de Aguirre, a 16th century Spanish conquistador obsessed with conquering South America and finding the fabled city of […]
Nobel Laureate’s Speech Begins Theme Year at WFU
August 28, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University will launch the Year of Globalization and Diversity on Sept. 17 with an Opening Convocation address by Oscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Convocation will begin at 11 a.m. in Wait Chapel. Arias, […]
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