New logo approved for fall presidential debate at WFU
April 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
It’s official. Next fall’s presidential debate at Wake Forest University has its own logo. Created by Wake Forest art director Samantha Hand and approved by the Commission on Presidential Debates, the logo is featured on the university’s Web site and will be showing up […]
Wake Forest preparing for presidential debate
April 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
Since announcing that it will host a presidential debate, Wake Forest University has been busy with numerous preliminary preparations, ranging from making plans for registering volunteers to developing classes and events to complement the debate. The university has also created an official logo for […]
ADL thanks Wake Forest president for response to The Revisionist
April 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed its gratitude to Wake Forest University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. for the university’s response to the distribution of a Holocaust denial publication on campus. Brittanie Zelkind Werbel, associate director for the ADL in North Carolina, recently wrote a […]
Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, will deliver WFU’s commencement address
April 17, 2000 | Commencement, Media Advisory, Speakers, University Announcement
John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 15. A total of 1,393 undergraduate and graduate students will receive diplomas during the 9 a.m. outdoor ceremony on […]
Wake Forest ranks among America’s ‘Most Wired’ schools
April 11, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
Wake Forest University ranks 19th among America’s top 50 “most wired” universities and research schools, according to Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. The ranking is reported in the magazine’s fourth annual feature on America’s “most wired” schools, published in its May edition. Yahoo! Internet Life […]
WFU student named Truman Scholar
March 24, 2000 | Media Advisory, Recognition, Student, University Announcement
Wake Forest University junior Jessica Esther Posner of Madison, Wisc., is among a distinguished group of undergraduates nationwide who have been elected as 2000 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Posner is one of 61 students from 49 colleges and universities […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
March 16, 2000 | Arts & Culture, Events, Media Advisory, Research, Speakers, University Announcement
WFU BEGINS DEFIBRILLATOR TRAINING PROGRAM Wake Forest is one of the first organizations in North Carolina to implement the American Heart Association’s Public Access to Debfribrillation program, or PAD. Through the program, Wake Forest is training key staff members and students to use automated external […]
WFU begins special defibrillator training program
March 15, 2000 | Campus Life, Community, Media Advisory, University Announcement
Wake Forest University is one of the first organizations in North Carolina to implement a special program by the American Heart Association (AHA) to place life-saving defibrillators on campus and train individuals to use them. Wake Forest has started the AHA’s Public Access to […]
ADVISORY: Commission announces plans for press credentials
March 10, 2000 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced that it will provide new information regarding press credentials for upcoming debates, including one at Wake Forest University, in late summer. On its Web site (www.debates.org), the commission states, “The notice for press credentials will not go out […]
WFDD adds Workmon to staff, promotes two others
March 2, 2000 | Media Advisory, Staff, University Announcement
WFDD, Wake Forest University’s public radio station, has appointed Robert Workmon as program director and promoted Paulette Cott to news director and Kimberlea Daggy to music director. Workmon joined the staff at WFDD (88.5 FM) after serving as an arts reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal […]
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