Stories this week at Wake Forest
February 9, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Media Advisory, University Announcement
SCIENTIST/TV HOST TO DELIVER FOUNDERS’ DAY ADDRESS Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and television program host David Suzuki will deliver the Founders’ Day Convocation address at 11 a.m. on Feb. 10 in Wait Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Suzuki’s speech, “Science and Technology in […]
WFU and WSSU to celebrate anniversary of lunch counter protest
February 1, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University will celebrate the 40th anniversary of a student sit-in at a downtown lunch counter with a series of events on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24. The celebration, “Leadership and Civil Rights: Retrospective and Prospective Visions,” will feature […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
January 20, 2000 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Research, Speakers, University Announcement
SECRET CODE AND SECURITY SOFTWARE FOCUS OF EVENTS Two events on Jan. 25 will focus on cracking secret codes and other computer security issues. From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium will be a lecture by S. Brent Morris, senior mathematician at […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
January 14, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Research, Speakers, University Announcement
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE, EVOLUTION OF COMPUTERS FOCUS OF TALK Author George Dyson will discuss the movement of computers toward large-scale, self-organizing systems during his talk, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Top,” from 4 p.m.-5 p.m. on Jan. 18 in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium. The event is […]
Debate commission approves WFU, CVB proposal to host presidential debate
January 6, 2000 | Community, Events, University Announcement
Twelve years after hosting a debate between presidential candidates George Bush and Michael Dukakis, Wake Forest University has been chosen as the site of a 2000 presidential debate. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced early today (Jan. 6) that it has selected Wake […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
December 6, 1999 | Campus Life, Community, Events, University Announcement
FACULTY/STAFF WILL SERVE LATE-NIGHT BREAKFAST TO STUDENTS Tonight, approximately 50 faculty and staff will serve a hot late-night breakfast to study-weary students preparing for final exams. As many as 700 students are expected for the breakfast, which will be served from 9 p.m. to 11:30 […]
Students to spend Christmas volunteering in Calcutta
December 6, 1999 | Community, Student, University Announcement
Two Winston-Salem residents, Greg Frey and Michael Hogge, will celebrate Christmas by traveling to Calcutta to help India’s poor. Frey, Hogge and nine other Wake Forest University students will depart Dec. 12 to spend two weeks in India volunteering with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of […]
Educational gifts for children
December 3, 1999 | Community, Events
With a little help from Wake Forest University faculty and staff, the Wake Forest News Service has compiled some educational gift ideas. Paul Anderson, an associate professor of physics, suggests stocking stuffers that encourage thinking skills, such as small magnifying glasses, simple calculators, […]
Annual Christmas lovefeast to be held at Wake Forest
November 22, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
Wake Forest University will hold its traditional Christmas lovefeast and candlelight service at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at Wait Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Rev. James Newsome, pastor of Rural Hall Moravian Church and a Wake Forest graduate, will […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
November 18, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
POET/ACTIVIST NIKKI GIOVANNI TO SPEAK African-American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni will speak about her life and work at Wake Forest today (Nov. 18). The free, public event will be held at 7 p.m. in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium. Giovanni is the author of […]
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