Wake Forest Summer Filled with Debate Preparations
July 17, 2000 | Community, Events, Media Advisory, University Announcement
Summers are typically spent at Wake Forest University preparing for a new semester of classes, but this summer is far from typical as the university also gets ready to stage a presidential debate. Wake Forest’s Wait Chapel will be the site of a televised […]
Wake Forest summer program designed to promote pluralism
July 3, 2000 | Community, Events, University Announcement
To promote a philosophy of education that embraces pluralism and builds community, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem State University and Salem College will take part in a four-week summer program beginning July 6. “Each program, activity and discussion is designed to encourage analytical thinking about […]
Anthropology Museum offers summer camp for kids
May 23, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
The Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology summer campers will go “island hopping” through the Pacific islands. Day campers will learn about island culture, including fishing techniques. They will also learn how islanders used star charts to navigate their outrigger canoes. The children will make […]
WFU expands furniture donation for Hurricane Floyd relief effort
May 18, 2000 | Community, Media Advisory, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has found approximately 250 more ways to help families and communities of several eastern North Carolina towns devastated by flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd. In addition to Wake Forest’s gift earlier this week of 582 sets of residence hall furniture, the […]
WFU donates furniture for Hurricane Floyd relief effort
May 15, 2000 | Community, Media Advisory, University Announcement
More than 580 sets of residence hall furniture from Wake Forest University will be donated to help families and communities of several Eastern North Carolina towns devastated by flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd. Wake Forest employees, along with volunteers from area churches, businesses and the […]
Local students win scholarship honoring students killed in drunk driving accident
May 8, 2000 | Community, Media Advisory, University Announcement
Candice Benbow, a senior at Parkland High School, and Megan Manuel, a senior at Glenn High School, were selected for the Maia Witzl and Julie Hansen Chi Omega Scholarship. The Chi Omega sorority at Wake Forest University created the scholarship in honor of Maia Witzl […]
Children can learn Maya weaving at Anthropology Museum
May 1, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Maya weaving will be the focus of a children’s program called “Story in a Maya Loom” to be presented at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology on May 6. Children and their parents will have the opportunity to handle Maya objects, learn about the Maya […]
Students gather oral history of Winston-Salem’s integration
April 24, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Valuing Diversity
Last November, when Wake Forest University junior Sarah Yaramishyn listened to Bill Stephens talk about his part in the 1960 Winston-Salem sit-ins, she got it on tape. Yaramishyn was one of seven Wake Forest students and seven Winston-Salem State University students who set out […]
WFU symposium concludes with environmental ethics lecture
April 24, 2000 | Community, Events, Research, Speakers
Wake Forest University’s “Environment 2000” symposium will conclude with a talk by environmental ethics expert Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Rasmussen will speak at 4 p.m. April 27 in Winston Hall, Room A. His topic is “Sustainable Development […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
April 12, 2000 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Speakers, University Announcement
ECONOMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT John Graham, a professor at Harvard University, will discuss “Environmental Risks: Facts, Fears and the Unknown” at 4 p.m. on April 13 in Carswell Hall, Room 111. In the field of environmental health, Graham’s research has focused on the need to better understand […]
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