Sculptor To Visit WFU Campus
February 18, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Sculptor Meg Webster will visit Wake Forest University Wednesday, Feb. 25, to deliver a public lecture. The artist will discuss her work at 3 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. Webster’s 4-foot sculpture, “Bronze Bowl,” will become part of Wake Forest’s Student Union […]
Bell Labs Scientist to Share Fruits of Wireless Research
February 13, 1998 | Research, Speakers
Just as the space program spawned new materials and inventions, research into the basic process required for wireless communication — transmission of a phone signal without cables — is producing its share of innovations. Margaret H. Wright of the Computing Science Research Center of Bell […]
“The Digital Millennium” Begins New Lecture Series
February 12, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Stephen D. O’Leary, a faculty member of the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Southern California, begins the Department of Communication’s lecture series on rhetoric and religion Thursday, Feb. 19, with “The Digital Millennium” – a program on new religions, the Internet and […]
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet to Speak at WFU
February 6, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Philip Levine, whose collection of poetry “The Simple Truth” won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize, will read his poems at Wake Forest University on Monday, Feb. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. Admission to the poetry reading is free and open […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
February 5, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
The Media and America’s Search for its Soul From Waco to Hollywood portrayals of priests, a panel of three nationally known journalists will examine how Americans view matters of faith and morality through the filter of the media. The public program begins at 7:30 p.m., […]
Bowles to Deliver 1998 Commencement Address
February 3, 1998 | Commencement, Events, Speakers
White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles will speak at Wake Forest University’s 1998 commencement ceremony on May 18. Bowles was named President Clinton’s chief of staff in November 1996 and assumed his post the following January. He had previously served as the assistant to […]
WFU Students Address Rape Awareness
February 2, 1998 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Speakers, Student
A Wake Forest University student organization, PREPAR (Policy Group for Rape Education, Prevention and Response), will sponsor its annual Rape Awareness Week February 9-12. “The goal of the week is to raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault, provide information about the prevention of […]
Faith in Focus: WFU Hosts Program on Religion & Media
January 29, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Bob Abernethy, former Moscow Bureau chief for NBC News, and Sharon Green, senior cultural affairs editor for National Public Radio, are among those who will lead a town hall-style discussion of media coverage of religion Feb. 7 at Wake Forest University. Titled, “Faith in Focus? […]
Campolo Calls for America Committed to Serve Others
January 22, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, School of Divinity, Speakers
Americans need to commit themselves to lives that transcend career and self-interest to save the nation from losing its soul to individualism, Tony Campolo said today at Wake Forest University in a speech for its Founders’ Day Convocation and Year of Religion in American Life […]
Expert on Racial Issues to Lecture at WFU
January 20, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Speakers
Sociologist Joe Feagin, an expert on racial issues, will lecture at Wake Forest University on Thursday, Jan. 22. Feagin, a sociology professor with the University of Florida, will present “The Coming White Minority in an Era of Racism” at 4:30 p.m. in the Annenberg Forum, […]
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