WFU guest lecturers to discuss nation building in Iraq, Afghanistan
November 12, 2003 | Speakers
Donald Horowitz, professor of law and political science at Duke University, and Andrew Reynolds, associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss “Nation Building in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Challenges Ahead” at Wake Forest University at 7:30 […]
Stories this week at WFU
November 6, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Research, Speakers
WFU RESEARCHERS ASSIST WITH ‘PARADIGM BREAKING’ NITRITE STUDY— Scientists in the Wake Forest physics department have collaborated with researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham on a new study that shows that nitrite, a common salt found in […]
Catholic theologian James Heisig to discuss Buddhist-Christian dialogue at WFU
November 6, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
James W. Heisig, a professor at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, and a fellow and former director of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, will give the free, public lecture “The Cultural Disarmament of Theology in an Interreligious World: 25 Years of Dialogue with […]
Award-winning novelist Paul Eggers to read at WFU
October 31, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Novelist Paul Eggers, the final novelist featured in the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series at Wake Forest University, will read Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium in Tribble Hall. A reception and booksigning will follow the reading. Eggers is the author of “Saviors,” […]
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner to speak at WFU
October 30, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University continues the celebration of its 2003-2004 theme “Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discourse in an Academic Community” with a guest lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in the university’s Wait Chapel. The free, public event will be followed […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 30, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Speakers
AHOY! ALL MEDIA ON DECK FOR PROJECT “PIRATE” PUMPKIN – Wake Forest University will host its 15th Project Pumpkin today from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. by inviting nearly 2,000 children from 37 different community agencies to campus for safe Halloween fun. This year’s theme is […]
WFU symposium focuses on Native American Indian sovereignty
October 29, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University will host the daylong event “Native American Indian Sovereignty: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Symposium” on Nov. 6. The symposium is the post-convention event for the 2003 National Indian Education Association convention, scheduled for Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 in Greensboro. The free, […]
Best-selling author Marsha Sinetar to discuss vocation at WFU
October 28, 2003 | Events, Speakers
Marsha Sinetar, a pioneering educator and best-selling author, will discuss “The Heart of Vocation” at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in Pugh Auditorium at Wake Forest University’s Benson University Center. The campus-wide address is free and open to the public. Sinetar is the author of several […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 23, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, Speakers
UNIVERSITY RAISES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS – Wake Forest students are raising awareness of domestic violence this month with several campus events. “The Clothesline Project” is in Benson University Center and features T-shirts designed by students in honor or memory of a victim of domestic violence. The […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 16, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Research, School of Divinity, Speakers, Student
GOD AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – James Dunn, adjunct professor of Christianity and public policy at Wake Forest Divinity School, says the ongoing debate about the line “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is nothing more than a “tempest in a teapot.” […]
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