‘Following Your Dreams’
The third annual Reynolda Film Festival on March 24 - 27 will feature film screenings, a world premiere, a film competition, and talks by scriptwriters, animators and film-industry insiders. Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, University Announcements
Libraries aren't just for books anymore. Nationally recognized by the Library and Information Technology Association for her work in library technology, Instructional Design Librarian Lauren Pressley shares what's ahead for books and the virtual library at your fingertips.
Foreign films make up only 1 percent of the box office take in the United States. But, during the Academy Awards March 7, five films with subtitles will get a few extra moments in the spotlight.
Professor Emeritus of Art Robert Knott, who led Wake Forest's art department through its formative years and was a guiding inspiration for the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art, died Feb. 18 in Winston-Salem following an illness. He was 68.
"The Threepenny Opera," written in Germany over 80 years ago, has a lot to say about unscrupulous behavior in any era. This operetta of power and corruption, written by poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, proves the world is only one scoundrel away from the next $65 billion Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.
Wake Forest will celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year and the "Year of the Tiger" with several events on campus on Feb. 13.
Michelle Obama may be the first African-American first lady, but in other respects she's not that different from her predecessors, says Professor of Political Science Kathy Smith, who studies first ladies. "Michelle Obama offers continuity to the past with her traditional interpretation of the first lady role," says Smith, the author of a chapter on Rosalynn Carter in the book "American First Ladies" and co-author of two books on the American presidency.