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Happy Holidays 2010
December 23, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, President, Top Stories
From President Nathan O. Hatch: “One of the highlights of my year has been a number of opportunities to hear from our students, alumni, parents, faculty and staff about why they love Wake Forest… . As we enjoy the holiday season, I wanted to share some of those wonderful stories with you.”
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Hatch addresses campus
October 26, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, President, Speakers, Top Stories
In his State of the University address, President Nathan O. Hatch recognized the faculty for being committed to Wake Forest’s tradition of educating the whole person.
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Jay Bilas: Time to reform the NCAA
October 7, 2010 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Top Stories
Jay Bilas, a former Duke basketball star and current television analyst, told a Wake Forest audience that college athletics’ governing body, the NCAA, needs to be reformed. Bilas was speaking as part of the “Voices of our Time” series.
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Humanities Institute established
October 1, 2010 | Faculty, Humanities, President, Provost, Top Stories
Building on its liberal arts tradition, Wake Forest University has established the Wake Forest Humanities Institute to support innovative scholarship and collaboration in the humanities.
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What do you see in the Andes?
August 23, 2010 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Student, Top Stories
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”
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The Character Project
July 19, 2010 | Faculty, Humanities, President, Research, Scholars and Scientists
aBecause understanding character lies at the heart of human identity, philosophers, psychologists and theologians have long wrestled with how to define good character and how to improve character.
Wake Forest professors Christian Miller (philosophy), William F. Fleeson (psychology) and Michael R. Furr (psychology) have been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.
July 2010 Staff News
July 1, 2010 | President, Provost, Staff
Athletics Cook Griffin has retired after 26 years. School of Law Constance Cashin has retired. Undergraduate Admissions Stephanie Brooks has retired. Milestones Staff members who are observing anniversaries of their employment. (Recognition is for one year and for five through 50 years at five-year intervals.) […]
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Wake Forest graduates 1,600 students
May 17, 2010 | Commencement, Community, President, Student, Wake Forest College
The odds finally caught up with Wake Forest’s Commencement ceremony. For the first time since 1991, rain forced University officials to move the ceremony from Hearn Plaza to Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
New divinity school dean named
April 29, 2010 | Faculty, President, Provost, School of Divinity
Gail R. O’Day, a respected New Testament scholar and currently senior associate dean at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
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Muslim associate chaplain named
February 15, 2010 | President, Staff
Khalid Griggs, imam of the Community Mosque of Winston-Salem, has been named Wake Forest’s first Muslim chaplain. Imam Griggs will serve as a part-time associate chaplain to provide religious leadership for the University’s growing Muslim community.
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