WFU to give honorary degree to Fred Kirby II
May 3, 2002 | Commencement, Recognition, University Announcement
Wake Forest University will award Fred M. Kirby II an honorary doctor of laws degree at the university’s 160th commencement ceremony on May 20. Kirby will be one of five honorary degree recipients at the 9 a.m. outdoor ceremony featuring commencement speaker John McCain, U.S. […]
Calculus organization awards National High School Calculus Award
May 2, 2002 | Community, Recognition, University Announcement
Jennifer Balakrishnan of Harvest Christian Academy in Barrigada, Guam, has been awarded the $1000 National High School Calculus Student Award. The award recognizes the academic achievements of outstanding high school calculus students. The award comes from calculus.org, an organization based at the University of California […]
Jane Mead, WFU poet-in-residence wins Guggenheim Fellowship
April 22, 2002 | Arts & Culture, Recognition, University Announcement
Jane Mead, Wake Forest University’s poet-in-residence, has won a 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. The foundation annually awards the prestigious fellowships to support artists, scholars and scientists to support their work. Past authors who have been Guggenheim Fellows include Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes […]
Wake Forest student wins Goldwater Scholarship
April 5, 2002 | Recognition, Student, University Announcement
Cynthia Gillikin, a Wake Forest University sophomore from Gainesville, Fla., has been named a 2002-2003 Goldwater Scholar. She was among 309 undergraduate sophomores and juniors to receive Goldwater Scholarships. She was selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,115 mathematics, science […]
WFU students win international math contest
April 2, 2002 | Recognition, Student, University Announcement
Two teams of Wake Forest University students won top honors in an international mathematics contest for solving a problem involving airline overbooking. The annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling gives undergraduate students the opportunity to compete in a team setting using applied mathematics to solve open-ended […]
Wake Forest art exhibit showcases student talent
March 27, 2002 | Arts & Culture, Events, Recognition, Student
“Vision 1,” an oil-on-canvas painting by senior art student Erica Grace, will be among the 70 student works on display in Wake Forest University’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery from April 11 – May 20. Photographs, sculpture, drawings, prints and digital media works […]
Peace Corps to honor Wake Forest volunteers
March 26, 2002 | Recognition, University Announcement
Lynn Heichel Kneedler, manager of the Peace Corps recruiting office in Washington, D.C., will recognize Wake Forest University for the large number of alumni who have served in the Peace Corps and celebrate the record-breaking number of Wake Forest students and graduates who will […]
WFU student named Truman scholar
March 25, 2002 | Recognition, Student, University Announcement
Wake Forest University junior Lindsay J. Littlefield of Moorhead, Minn., is among a distinguished group of undergraduates nationwide who have been elected as 2002 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Littlefield is one of 64 students from 54 colleges and […]
Peace Corps to recognize Wake Forest’s commitment
March 22, 2002 | President, Recognition, University Announcement
Representatives from the Peace Corps will present Wake Forest University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. with a citation on March 27 that recognizes members of the Wake Forest community—students, alumni, faculty and staff—who have been associated with the Peace Corps. The ceremony will begin at […]
WFU students sell ‘Band-Aids for Benin’; raise money for professor’s African birthplace
March 22, 2002 | Community, Events, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Student
A group of Wake Forest University students are raising money to buy basic medical supplies like needles, gloves and bandages for several open-air hospitals in Benin, West Africa— including the hospital where one of their professors was born. They are calling the fund-raiser “Project Bokonon,” […]
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