Wake Forest University announced today that its new divinity school will be led by Bill J. Leonard, professor of religion and chair of the religion and philosophy department at Samford University.
Wake Forest University's composer-in-residence Dan Locklair has created the first musical composition based on the poem Maya Angelou wrote for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential inauguration. "Since Dawn (A Tone Poem for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra based on Maya Angelou's `On the Pulse of Morning')" will be premiered by the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony Sept. 28 at Wake Forest University.
Beth Stroupe, the daughter of Jane and Steve Stroupe of Libertyville, Ill., has won two national chemistry awards. Stroupe is a rising senior and a chemistry major at Wake Forest University.
A team of MBA students from Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management claimed second place and the $1,000 prize in the 1996 KPMG Peat Marwick/George Washington University MBA Case Competition.
Wake Forest University's varsity debate squad finished the 1995-96 season ranked No. 1 in the nation, according to the latest rankings of college debaters.