Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, will deliver the 2011 commencement address on May 16. “When she visited campus two years ago, Indra wowed students with her insight and energy,” said President Nathan O. Hatch. Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
From President Nathan O. Hatch: "One of the highlights of my year has been a number of opportunities to hear from our students, alumni, parents, faculty and staff about why they love Wake Forest... . As we enjoy the holiday season, I wanted to share some of those wonderful stories with you."Categories: University Announcements
In his State of the University address, President Nathan O. Hatch recognized the faculty for being committed to Wake Forest's tradition of educating the whole person.Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Jay Bilas, a former Duke basketball star and current television analyst, told a Wake Forest audience that college athletics’ governing body, the NCAA, needs to be reformed. Bilas was speaking as part of the "Voices of our Time" series.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, University Announcements
Building on its liberal arts tradition, Wake Forest University has established the Wake Forest Humanities Institute to support innovative scholarship and collaboration in the humanities.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
aBecause understanding character lies at the heart of human identity, philosophers, psychologists and theologians have long wrestled with how to define good character and how to improve character.
Wake Forest professors Christian Miller (philosophy), William F. Fleeson (psychology) and Michael R. Furr (psychology) have been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
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The odds finally caught up with Wake Forest's Commencement ceremony. For the first time since 1991, rain forced University officials to move the ceremony from Hearn Plaza to Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements