Ward earns Wake Forest Distinguished Alumni Award
September 29, 2005 | Alumni, Recognition
Wake Forest University presented its annual Distinguished Alumni Award to Dr. D.E. Ward Jr. of Lumberton at a reception Sept. 23 during the university’s Homecoming Weekend. The Distinguished Alumni Award is awarded to Wake Forest alumni whose civic achievements and exemplary service reflect the university […]
Martha Mason receives WFU’s Pro Humanitate Award
September 8, 2003 | Alumni, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, University Announcement
Wake Forest University announced Martha Mason, a 1960 Wake Forest graduate, as the winner of the university’s Pro Humanitate Award during a Sept. 5 ceremony on campus. The award, one of the university’s highest honors, was presented to Mason in recognition of a life lived […]
Molecular biologist receives honorary degree from WFU
May 19, 2003 | Alumni, Commencement, Recognition, University Announcement
Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, received an honorary doctor of science degree at Wake Forest University’s commencement ceremony May 19. Approximately 1,478 undergraduate, graduate and professional school students received degrees during the ceremony. Olson is director […]
Martha Mason’s memoirs to be read at WFU
March 21, 2003 | Alumni, Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson and Assistant Professor of Communication Mary Dalton will read from Martha Mason’s new book, “Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung,” on April 8. Readings will be held at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the […]
Stories this week at WFU
March 20, 2003 | Alumni, Events, Media Advisory, Speakers, Student, University Announcement
U.N. REMAINS RELEVANT DESPITE BREAKDOWN – Jonathan Marks, a visiting scholar in the Wake Forest School of Law and an international law and human rights expert, says the U.N. Security Council’s refusal to pull the plug on weapons inspections in Iraq demonstrates the strength of the […]
WFU presents Schoonmaker, Reinhardt and Waddill awards during opening convocation
October 10, 2002 | Alumni, Faculty, Recognition, University Announcement
Wake Forest University honored two professors and two alumni with awards during its Opening Convocation Oct. 10. Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, a leader in the race to decode the human genome, was the keynote speaker during the program in Wait Chapel. Andrew V. Ettin, […]
Professorship established in honor of Judge Donald L. Smith
August 9, 2002 | Alumni, Community, Recognition, School of Law, University Announcement
G. Eugene Boyce, a graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law, and the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice have established the Judge Donald L. Smith Professorship for Studies in Constitutional and Public Law at Wake Forest. Income from the fund […]
A.R. Ammons to Read His Poems at WFU
January 15, 1997 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, Events
Award-winning poet A.R. Ammons will read from his works on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Wake Forest University. The free 8 p.m. reading will be held in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. Ammons, twice the winner of the National Book Award for his poetry, is […]
Kinston attorney admitted to practice before court
June 18, 1996 | Alumni, School of Law
P.C. Barwick Jr., an attorney with Wallace Morris Barwick & Rochelle in Kinston, was among 13 Wake Forest University law alumni admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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