Six Receive Honorary Degrees during WFU commencement
May 19, 1997 | Commencement
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison (right in photo) was among six distinguished recipients of honorary degrees awarded by Wake Forest University during today’s commencement. The ceremony also included the awarding of diplomas to approximately 1,348 undergraduate and graduate students. The commencement address was delivered by […]
Clinical Sciences Building To Be Named For Janeway
May 15, 1997 | Faculty, Media Advisory, School of Medicine, University Announcement
The signature building of the Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Medical Center in Winston-Salem will be named for Dr. Richard Janeway, who has led Wake Forest University’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine for almost three decades. Wake Forest University’s board of trustees has approved changing the name […]
WFU students win National Science Foundation award
May 6, 1997 | Student, University Announcement
Beth Stroupe, a senior chemistry major at Wake Forest University, has won one of 57 national fellowships for predoctoral studies in chemistry awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Under the fellowship, Stroupe will study in the molecular biology department of the Scripps Research Institute […]
WFU Library Wins Information Management Award
May 6, 1997 | University Announcement
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University has won the Information Management Award of the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (NC/SLA). Rhoda K. Channing, the libraryís director, accepted the award for its “support of libraries and information science and the […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
May 1, 1997 | Campus Life, Community, Events
Tips for Hot Weather Exercise As summer approaches, exercise buffs need to adapt to hot weather conditions, says Don Bergey, exercise coordinator for Wake Forest’s cardiac rehabilitation program. The only way to be sure you are drinking enough water when you exercise in hot weather […]
WFU Switches to 758 Telephone Prefix
May 1, 1997 | University Announcement
Telephone numbers changed today at Wake Forest University because of the adoption of a new 758 phone prefix for all Reynolda Campus numbers. The university has dropped its 759 prefix in the switch to 758. Wake Forest had shared the 759 prefix with Winston-Salem residents […]
WFDD News Director Wins Award for Report
May 1, 1997 | Staff, University Announcement
Paul Brown, news director at radio station WFDD at Wake Forest University, has received a first-place award for radio enterprise reporting from The Associated Press. Brown won the award for the story, “R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Workers,” which aired last June on National Public Radio’s “Morning […]
Ward Named Station Manager at WFDD
April 30, 1997 | University Announcement
Linda Ward has been named station manager at WFDD, the National Public Radio (NPR) member station at Wake Forest University. Since 1994, Ward has been development director at WFDD (88.5 FM), where she has been in charge of developing underwriting and corporate sponsorships. “Since coming […]
Lack of Maternity Leave Tough on Medical Moms
April 24, 1997 | Personal and Career Development, School of Medicine
The policies of many teaching hospitals are tough on doctor moms and their marriages, says an expert on medical marriages in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Wayne Sotile, the director of psychological services for Wake Forest University’s cardiac rehabilitation program and […]
This week at Wake Forest
April 24, 1997 | Events, Speakers
Matthew Alexander 5K Memorial Race The Wake Forest ROTC is sponsoring a road race in memory of Matthew Alexander on Friday, April 25. Alexander, an ROTC cadet and rising senior at Wake Forest, was aboard TWA Flight 800 that crashed last summer. Race proceeds will […]
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