American Public Media’s Performance Today program will broadcast a concert on Monday by trumpeter Alison Balsom, taped during her appearance in Brendle Recital Hall last month. The concert will air on Wake Forest’s public radio station, WFDD, at 8 p.m. Monday and on other public radio stations around the country. Balsom’s concert at Wake Forest was sponsored by the Secrest Artist Series.
Lecturers may be the unsung heroes of academe, but they’re valued at Wake Forest for what they bring to the classroom, says chemistry professor Christa Colyer.
In 1988, Alice Neal led the Wake Forest women’s basketball team to the program’s only NCAA Tournament appearance, and on Saturday, the ACC honored her in its fifth class of ACC Women’s Basketball Legends.
Wake Forest defeated N.C. State 59-54 in the opening round of the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament on Thursday, the first tournament victory for the Lady Deacons since 2005. The ninth-seeded Deacons advance to play top-seed Maryland on Friday afternoon.
Freshman Al-Farouq Aminu scored 16 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and 10th-ranked Wake Forest won its third game in six days with a 65-63 come-from-behind win over Maryland Tuesday night.
Long-hidden letters from the Holocaust brought two Wake Forest professors — one whose parents were Jewish and one whose parents were German — together to bond over a shared tragedy.
In a column in the Winston-Salem Journal, two Wake Forest students say that Duke Energy’s plan to break the link between profits and energy usage would lead to increased energy efficiency and energy conservation, less dependence on foreign oil and a reduced carbon footprint.
