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Madison Smartt Bell reads at WFU
November 9, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
On Nov. 2, the English department brought Madison Smartt Bell, an award-winning novelist, to the Wake Forest campus. The well-known author met students and faculty to read excerpts from his novel, sign copies of his books and answer questions.
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Ethics in research
November 8, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Speakers, Top Stories
This summer, incoming first-year students to Wake Forest University completed an academic project involving writings by Dr. James Jones on bioethics, medical research, and ethics. Now Jones, the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, comes to campus all week for the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society’s conference.
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Kennedy optimistic about energy
November 4, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
Even with a struggling economy, high unemployment and thousands protesting American greed, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is optimistic. In a Thursday speech in Wait Chapel, he said resources like wind and solar energy will drive this country to energy independence.
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Shriver: America’s mission to serve
October 14, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Speakers, Top Stories
Mark Kennedy Shriver stressed the power of the Peace Corps in a Voices of Our Time speech. “Compassion in service can shatter barriers,” Shriver said, as he discussed the history and future of the organization, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Alumna shares Thalhimer legacy
October 13, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt (’98) has written “Finding Thalhimers” the story of her family and their business, a well-known retail institution for 150 years. Along with her mentor, professor Mary Dalton (’83), she’ll participate in a panel discussion sponsored by the Family Business Center on Friday at Reynolda House.
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GE CEO visits Schools of Business
October 13, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Speakers, Top Stories
The Schools of Business recently welcomed GE’s Jeff Immelt, who has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” by Barron’s three times. Immelt stressed to students that they must prepare to compete in a volatile, global economy. “You are going to graduate into a world that requires adaptability. It rewards people who know how to manage volatility.”
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Nobel winner, DNA exoneree meet
October 13, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Kary Mullis developed a process that uses DNA to identify or exclude suspects. Twenty years later, that process freed Darryl Hunt, who spent 18 years in prison for murder. On Wednesday, Hunt got to meet Mullis at Wake Forest.
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Students bring top scholars to WFU
October 10, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest’s “Great Teachers” class gives students the opportunity to learn from the best by planning and executing visits from four leading communications researchers.
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Prothero: Religious illiteracy an issue
September 21, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
During times when religion is both a highly taboo topic and the center of many world conflicts, Dr. Stephen Prothero’s speech about the perils of religious ignorance brought an overflow crowd to Wake Forest on Tuesday night.
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Whitman: Solutions, not agendas
September 20, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
In an era teeming with political brinksmanship and hyper-partisan rhetoric, former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman told a crowd at Wake Forest that she believes she has the solution.
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