Advisory: Expert on African economy available for comment on Liberia
August 13, 2003 | Faculty, Media Advisory, School of Business, University Announcement
Sylvain Boko, an associate professor of economics at Wake Forest University, author of “Decentralization and Reform in Africa,” and a native of West Africa, is available for comment on stories relating to the recent resignation of Liberian President Charles Taylor. Boko says it remains to […]
Jeanne Owen, WFU’s first female full professor, dies at age 82
July 30, 2003 | Faculty, University Announcement
Jeanne Owen, professor emerita of business law at Wake Forest University and the university’s first female full professor, died July 27 in Winston-Salem after a sudden illness. She was 82. Owen came to Wake Forest in 1956 to teach in what was then the School […]
Patel named interim dean of WFU’s Babcock School
July 24, 2003 | Faculty, School of Business, University Announcement
Ajay Patel has been named interim dean of Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management. Patel has been a faculty member at the Babcock School for 10 years and has served as associate dean for faculty and alumni affairs since 2002. Wake Forest Provost […]
WFU selected to compete for $5 million entrepreneurship grant
July 11, 2003 | Recognition, School of Business, University Announcement
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City has awarded Wake Forest University a $50,000 grant that will be used to create a proposal for how the university plans to make entrepreneurship a common and accessible campus-wide opportunity. Wake Forest was one of only 15 […]
WFU students hit the road to study social inequality in the Deep South
July 9, 2003 | Community, Research, Student, University Announcement
This summer, while following the paths of civil rights history through the Deep South, Wake Forest University sociology students will explore present-day social inequalities. From Atlanta to the Mississippi Delta, 15 students enrolled in a three–credit course will travel by bus to cities, towns and […]
WFU’s Graylyn Conference Center wins two industry awards
July 7, 2003 | Recognition, University Announcement
Graylyn International Conference Center has been awarded two of the meeting and conference industry’s top awards for 2003. Graylyn, which is owned and operated by Wake Forest University, won the Gold Key Award from Meetings & Conventions magazine for the fourth consecutive year. The annual […]
Stories this week at WFU
July 3, 2003 | Community, School of Divinity, University Announcement
WAKE FOREST NAMES NEW CHAPLAIN — Wake Forest has appointed the Rev. Timothy L. Auman as university chaplain. Since 1998, Auman has been a member of Wake Forest’s Campus Ministry staff as the United Methodist campus minister and was named the 2001 national campus minister of […]
Wake Forest University appoints new chaplain
July 3, 2003 | Community, Faculty, School of Divinity, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has appointed the Rev. Timothy L. Auman as university chaplain. Since 1998, Auman has been a member of Wake Forest’s Campus Ministry staff as the United Methodist campus minister and was named the 2001 national campus minister of the year by the […]
WFU’s sociology department selected for census data analysis program
June 24, 2003 | Faculty, Student, University Announcement
Wake Forest University’s sociology department is among six nationwide selected this year for a program designed to train faculty and students to use current U.S. Census data to explore social issues. The Integrated Data Analysis Program, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the […]
WFU Divinity School graduates second class
June 20, 2003 | School of Divinity, University Announcement
The Wake Forest University Divinity School, which was founded in 1999 and offers the master of divinity degree in an ecumenical full-time program, granted degrees to the second class in school history this year. Twenty students, representing six different states and Nigeria, comprised this year’s […]
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