More than 300 students from International Baccalaureate (IB) Programmes from around the state visited Wake Forest last Wednesday.
The IB Programme is a rigorous course of study that presents a liberal arts curriculum from a global perspective, university-level work, and required examinations that are developed and marked on an international standard. It is among the most challenging high school curricula offered.
Visiting students attended a mock class, took a tour of campus, and were greeted by admissions officers in Byrum Hall.
Additionally, longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews met with faculty members in the education department, spoke to state and local school administrators, and told a crowd in Wait Chapel that IB is what he believes is right in American education today. Continue reading »
Two movements of Dan Locklair’s Rubrics for solo organ were performed by John Scott on February 27 at Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Other composers on the program include J.S. Bach.
Rubrics is a liturgical suite in five movements, inspired by the instructions (rubrics) in the Book of Common Prayer. The five movements are 1) “‘Hallelujah,’ has been restored…” 2) “Silence may be kept” 3) “…and thanksgivings may follow” 4) “The Peace may be exchanged” and 5) “The people respond – Amen!”
Locklair is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest. For information about Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and more, visit http://www.locklair.com.
The following message is sent on behalf of Associate Vice President James Alty to Reynolda Campus faculty and staff:
By now you may have noticed the start ofconstruction activity for two new residence halls on North Campus. The new buildings require the permanent reduction of 350 parking spaces primarily used by residential and commuter students, along with faculty and staff – the northern end of Lot Q and the entirety of Lot R-2.
To help alleviate parking congestion, approximately 225 students have opted to move their cars to off-campus lots in exchange for a parking refund.
An opportunity is now available for 125 faculty and staff members on the Reynolda campus to receive a one-time payment in exchange for voluntarily returning their Reynolda Campus parking permit. Two options are available: Continue reading »
On Monday, March 12, between 6-9 p.m., Information Systems will perform required maintenance on the University’s telephone system. During this time period, there will be two outages lasting up to fifteen minutes each during which telephone service will be disrupted. This includes all on-campus University telephones and all off-campus locations serviced by our telephone system: Graylyn, Bridger Field House, Indoor Tennis Center, Cardiac Rehabilitation Center and Deacon Tower.
During the two 15 minute outages, please note:
No telephone service will be available.
No voice mail may be left or retrieved for campus phone extensions.
Voice mail will NOT queue for later delivery.
No existing messages in your voice mailbox will be lost.
In the event of an emergency while the phone system is unavailable, Campus Police can be contacted by dialing 336.759.0443.
We are pleased to announce that the Summer Employment Program will be offered again this year. The program is held on the Reynolda Campus for dependents of full-time Wake Forest faculty and staff. The goal of the program is to provide support for departments over the summer, as well as to afford worthwhile job opportunities to dependents of Wake Forest Reynolda Campus faculty and staff.
Information for Departments
The University will contribute $1,000 toward the cost of employing a program participant, and your department is responsible for any wages that exceed this amount. Notifications will not be sent out regarding hours and money spent, so please ensure that the information is tracked by your department.
Departments interested in employing a student will need to provide at least six weeks of work at the rate of at least $7.25 per hour and have the student begin work prior to June 22, 2012. No student can begin working until he or she has submitted all paperwork and attended an orientation session. Please note that students may not be supervised by their parents, guardians or any other relatives.
To participate in the program, complete and submit a Request Form to Human Resources by March 16 at 5 p.m.
The Provost and the Undergraduate Admissions Office invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at Porter B. Byrum Hall (the Welcome and Admissions Center) on March 8.
A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature David Lubin, Peter Kairoff and Morna O’Neill and Allison Slaby. The event also will serve as a kickoff for the Arts Council campaign kickoff, so there will be remarks by David Finn, WFU campaign chair and professor of art; Nathan Hatch, WFU president; Leon Porter (’78), campaign chair; and Milton Rhodes, president and CEO of The Arts Council.
Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber professor of art, will discuss an essay he’s writing on oil money and oil painting for an exhibition co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art to mark the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
Kairoff, professor of music, will discuss and perform The Keyboard Suites of J.S. Bach.
Morna O’Neill, assistant professor of art history, and Allison Slaby, managing curator, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, will discuss their collaboration on the current exhibition, “Domestic Bliss: Art at Home in Britain and America, 1780-1840.”
Congratulations to T. Michael Anderson, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of tree recruitment limitation across a savanna soil moisture availability gradient Date Submitted” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Congratulations to Patricia Nixon, associate professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Pre-natal Events, Post-natal consequences II (Competitive Renewal)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).
President Nathan Hatch was interviewed by senior Nilam Patel, the Student Government president, about new residence halls, being named chairman of NAICU and what he’s looking for when new provost Rogan Kersh arrives in June.
A piece of equipment the size of a computer external hard drive allows doctors nurses and other clinical staff at Student Health Service to quickly and efficiently treat more students. Called a thin client, this equipment allows users with a special smart card to not only speed up access to health records, but also keep them more secure.
“If we save 8-10 minutes per student, we can treat more of them,” Darren Aaron, associate director of Student Health Service said. “That’s especially important during flu season when we have a wave of students needing attention.”
Student Health Service uses thin clients to connect all 11 exam rooms and administration areas of the center to servers off-site. Although thin clients look like external hard drives, they have no moving parts to wear out. So these affordable units are expected to last about 10 years. Continue reading »
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library Senior Showcase recognizes exemplary senior thesis research and senior projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates in their final year. Launched in 2010, the Senior Showcase gives students the opportunity to share their research or projects before the Wake Forest community at an event hosted by the library on Tuesday, April 24, at 3 p.m.
A committee of library faculty will select up to five students, one from each Division of the College, to be honored from a pool of nominees recommended by you. Continue reading »
