Wake Forest University hosts events to inspire creativity
February 15, 2006 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
During February and March, Wake Forest University is hosting “COOK IT UP — A Creativity Forum,” an interactive series of events designed to inspire participants to think about creativity and what it means to be creative. The series, which is free and open to the […]
Wake Forest women support V-Day effort with ‘Vagina Monologues’
January 27, 2006 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
As part of the V-Day global movement to stop violence against women and girls, the women of Wake Forest University and Salem College will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues.” All proceeds will be donated to local battered women […]
Stories this week at WFU
January 25, 2006 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
HOW MUCH IS AMERICA SPENDING ON THE WAR? — Perhaps not as much as one might expect, despite the $251 billion price tag to date. Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest, has examined the cost of each major American war through the first Gulf […]
Wake Forests’s annual Chinese New Year Festival celebrates ‘Year of the Dog’
January 11, 2006 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Wake Forest University will bring in the year of the dog at its seventh annual Chinese New Year Festival from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 29. The festival, which celebrates the most important holiday for the Chinese, will be held in Reynolds Gymnasium, Room […]
Bernice King to speak at Wake Forest/Winston-Salem State Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
December 16, 2005 | Community, Events, Speakers
Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., will speak at Wake Forest University Jan. 16 as part of a week-long celebration of the civil rights leader’s legacy sponsored by Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University. This is the fifth year Wake Forest […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 10, 2005 | Campus Life, Community, Events, University Announcement
WAKE FOREST WELCOMES 1,120 FRESHMEN TO CAMPUS — Beginning at 8 a.m. Aug. 18, Wake Forest freshmen will start moving into their residence halls. Orientation for the approximately 1,120 new college students lasts through Aug. 23. Students will move in all day, but most arrive in […]
Wake Forest Police charge man in campus armed robbery
September 27, 2005 | Community, Media Advisory, University Announcement
The Wake Forest University Police Department charged a man not affiliated with the university with the Sept. 18 armed robbery of a Wake Forest student in university parking lot Q, across from Wait Chapel. The student was not injured. Jason Ryan Carver, 17, of Winston-Salem […]
Hurricane relief efforts continue at WFU
September 21, 2005 | Community, Events
Wake Forest University continues to provide assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Since the storm, the Reynolda campus has held more than 20 different events to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff and members of the Winston-Salem community to participate in relief efforts. To date, […]
Wake Forest University provides hurricane relief opportunities
September 12, 2005 | Community, Events, Media Advisory
Wake Forest University has launched an extensive effort to address the hardships suffered by Hurricane Katrina victims. More than a dozen events have been organized to provide opportunities for the university and the surrounding community to participate in relief efforts. The relief efforts are coordinated […]
Wake Forest interfaith vigil launches hurricane-inspired events, activities
September 7, 2005 | Community, Events
Wake Forest University will hold an interfaith vigil Sept. 11 that will be the first of many events and activities being organized to encourage assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The vigil will take place at 9 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Free and open […]
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