Navajo couple to ‘share their stories’ at anthropology museum
March 11, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events
Lupita and Jon McClanahan, both members of the Diné or Navajo Nation, will present a lecture on Navajo culture and the preservation of their traditions in today’s American culture at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology March 22 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, titled “Navajo […]
WFU Baha’i student group to hold new year celebration
March 11, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest University Baha’i Association will host a Naw Ruz (Baha’i New Year) celebration March 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Benson University Center, Room 401. The event is free and open to the public. The event will feature a free international buffet and musical […]
Stories this week at WFU
March 11, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers, Student
COACHTALK: THE RHETORIC OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL Following each game in the ACC Tournament this weekend, the media and fans will likely look to the coaches to explain their team’s victory or defeat. To help explain the coaches’ comments, the media can turn to a Wake […]
WFU panel to discuss free trade and human rights
March 10, 2004 | Events, Speakers
How does free trade affect people around the world, especially when different cultures have different views of progress and poverty? A panel of Wake Forest University professors will address this and other issues related to free trade and human rights at a symposium March 24 […]
WFU’s Secrest Artists Series concludes with ‘Masters of Mexican Music’
March 9, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events
Celebrating the rich musical traditions of Mexico, the Masters of Mexican Music will perform the final Secrest Artist Series concert of the 2003-2004 season at Wake Forest University. The concert will be held March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Twenty-one master musicians and […]
WFU Concert Choir presents concert
March 8, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Concert Choir will present a concert in Brendle Recital Hall on March 23 at 8 p.m. Admission to the concert is free. The 55-member ensemble of mixed voices will perform selections from the standard choral repertoire by Pitoni, Loosemore, Mozart, Jan Sandstrom, […]
Harvard scholar on race and poverty to speak at WFU
March 4, 2004 | Events, Speakers
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a leading scholar on the roots of racism and poverty, will present a lecture at Wake Forest University at 4 p.m. March 22 in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium. Patterson’s talk, “American Dionysus: The […]
Congressman Boucher to highlight WFU technology event March 22
March 4, 2004 | Events, Speakers, University Announcement
Wake Forest University will host its 2nd annual Technology Consortium March 22-23 in the Information Systems Building on the university’s Reynolda Campus. The event will bring together leaders from Southeastern colleges and universities to share ideas on effective uses of technology on college campuses. It […]
Stories this week at WFU
March 4, 2004 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
MCDONALDS’ LOSES THE SUPER SIZE, WILL AMERICANS? – McDonald’s announced this week that it is getting rid of the extra-large “Super Size” portions that had become one of its signatures. Paul Ribisl, chair and professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest, says the move […]
Math Expert, ‘Game of Life’ inventor, to lecture at WFU
March 3, 2004 | Events, Speakers
The Wake Forest University Department of Mathematics will present the annual Ivey and Nell Gentry Lectureship with world-renowned math expert and game inventor John Conway on March 16. The Gentry lecture includes two free public lectures. The first, which is intended for people with a […]
News Archives
Wake Forest in the News
Wake Forest regularly appears in media outlets around the world.