Faculty, staff may register for mobile mammography unit
Wake Forest faculty and staff may register through the Professional Development Center for an appointment with the Novant Health Breast Center Mobile Mammography Unit, which will be on campus April 11. It will set up near Scales Fine Arts Center and provide services between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To register, visit the PDC website.
Limited scholarships are available to assist employees with no medical insurance.
The Novant Health Breast Center Mobile Mammography Unit is a 38-foot-long multi-functional coach that offers cutting-edge screening mammography services out in the community. The purpose of the program is to greatly increase access to mammography screening for women throughout the community.
Features include:
• Digital mammography technology
• All-female technologists
• Check-in and registration area
• Private changing room with separate clinical exam room
• Privacy and comfort of a traditional screening center with the convenience of a fully functioning mobile unit
Categories: Events
Poet Ciaran Carson to give campus reading Nov. 4
Wake Forest University Press will host Ciaran Carson for a lively reading on Nov. 4. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. in the Ring Theatre of Scales Fine Arts Center, and Carson will be available for a meet & greet and book signing following the reading. Refreshments will be served.
The poet Ciaran Carson in Royal Avenue, Belfast, N.Ireland.
Carson is a highly acclaimed Irish poet, prose writer, translator, scholar of the Irish oral tradition, and traditional musician. His black humor, satire, and playful and serious interests in wordplay make him, as Ben Howard described in a retrospective of Carson’s career in Shenandoah, “one of the most gifted poets now writing in England and Ireland.”
He is the author of fifteen collections of poems, including the critically acclaimed Belfast Confetti (1989); First Language (1994), which won the first ever T.S. Eliot Prize; and Breaking News (2003), which won the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection. His most recent volume, From Elsewhere (2015), contains translations of the French poet Jean Follain paired with original responses, creating a unique conversation between two poets across time and space.
Categories: Events, University Announcement
Tree removed, another removal planned
On June 15, a Poplar tree was removed near Scales Fine Arts Center when new pipe was installed under Wake Forest Road. Installation of the pipe required removing exposed tree roots, weakening the tree. The tree was also on the bank of a creek, so the root system on the creek side was exposed and undermined by erosion. Both factors made the tree a high risk for blow over.
In late May, a Red Maple tree was damaged by a contractor delivering a dumpster to the construction site at Worrell Professional Center, adjacent to Lot W. These wounds, at a minimum, will cause a column of decay and weaken the tree. The tree will be removed in the near future. A suitable replacement will be chosen and planted during the landscaping phase of the project.
Categories: University Announcement
