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Prosser inducted into Xavier hall
Categories: University AnnouncementsSkip Prosser, the late men’s basketball coach, has been inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Xavier University. He was an assistant and head coach at Xavier for 15 years before coming to Wake Forest in 2001. He died in 2007.
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John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life
Categories: University AnnouncementsDavid Weinstein admits to being a bit schizophrenic. Weinstein, a professor of political science, often inhabits two intellectual worlds. The student of British philosophy in him has recently published “John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life.” The German intellectual historian in him […]
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Building temperatures to be turned down over winter break to save energy
Categories: University AnnouncementsIn an effort to reduce energy usage over the winter holiday period, heat in campus buildings will be turned down beginning the night of Dec. 23. The University will be closed from Dec. 24 until Jan. 4. Temperatures will be maintained at no less than […]
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FAS turns food donations into trees
Categories: University AnnouncementsMany Wake Forest offices and individual employees have helped others this holiday season by collecting food, toys, clothing and other things for those in need in the community. Among those putting Pro Humanitate into action: the employees in Financial and Accounting Services held a canned […]
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Video games and realism
Categories: University AnnouncementsMore than 60 percent of parents say video games have no effect on their children. Not true, says Marina Krcmar, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest, who studies the impact of video games on children and teens.
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Dedicated Deacons
Categories: Awards & RecognitionThank you to David Link for all you are doing to preserve the plants in the ZSR Library atrium, as well as adding new ones. It is such a treat to walk through the atrium and see these marvelous plants! See more ZSR Dedicated Deacons. […]
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Whittington will be expert reviewer
Categories: University AnnouncementsSteve Whittington, director of the Museum of Anthropology, will represent academic museums and galleries as an expert reviewer to Museums Count: The National Museums Census. He was a contributor to a recent white paper the Society for American Archaeology sent to the National Science Foundation, […]
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Meet Jay Lawson, Technical Director
Categories: University AnnouncementsJay Lawson, better known as “Mr. Mobility,” has had a birds-eye view of two Presidential Debates and appearances by numerous politicians and celebrities — Hillary Clinton, James Earl Jones, Jay Leno, Alec Baldwin, Marcel Marceau, Doc Severinsen and Adam Sandler, among others — during the […]
