News for the Wake Forest community
HEADLINES
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September Comings and Goings
See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in September 2011:
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Network outage on Friday morning
On Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, between 12:01 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., computing network users will experience a 10-15 minute outage of the wired and wireless networks. The outages will occur randomly across campus buildings during this time. If you are using the computing network when a building is affected, […]
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Celebrating the Wilson Wing’s 20th anniversary
Has it really been 20 years since the Wilson Wing of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library opened? A panel discussion at the library Oct. 14 marked the 20th anniversary of the completion of the wing, named for Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43).
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NEH awards Francom’s language study
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Jerid Francom has been awarded $25,000 by The National Endowment for the Humanities to study Spanish language use and cultural trends. Francom will spend the spring semester traveling to Spain, Mexico and Argentina collecting data on word usage […]
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Wake Forest Baptist September awards and recognitions
Read a roundup of awards and recognitions in September from Wake Forest Baptist:
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Green shares knowledge as visiting scholar
Michael D. Green, the Bess and Walter Williams Distinguished Chair at the School of Law, recently spent three days at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as part of Cleveland State’s Visiting Scholar Program. Green, one of the country’s leading experts in tort law, spoke to students, […]
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Eat, drink and support The Nyanya Project
On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Camino Bakery (on the corner of Fourth and Cherry in Winston-Salem) will be donating a percentage of its proceeds to The Nyanya Project, a non-profit agency launched by journalism instructor Mary Martin Niepold in 2007. Through the program, volunteers teach […]
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60th anniversary of Wake Forest groundbreaking
Oct. 15 marks the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking for Wake Forest’s campus in Winston-Salem. In 1951, Wake Forest President Harold Tribble was looking to do something that would send a clear signal that the move from Wake Forest, N.C., was going to happen. He […]