Wake Forest University Human Resources shared updates with faculty and staff on March 11, 2021 regarding COVID-19 vaccines, return to Yellow Operating Status, upcoming employee focus groups, TIAA webinars, and the Character and the Professions conference.
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The next Staff Advisory Council (SAC) meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The meeting will include updates on the Parents and Caregivers Committee, COVID-19 vaccination planning, and ResilientWake and the THRIVE Dimension Champion Awards.
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The Reynolda Quartet will return for “Concert of Gratitude,” featuring works that reflect on the strength of the human spirit. The concert will be livestreamed from Watson Hall at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on Sunday, March, 14, at 3 p.m. Tickets are free to Wake Forest University faculty, staff and students with valid ID and advance registration
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“Character and the Professions,” hosted by the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University and the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford, will be held Thursday, March 18 through Saturday, March 20. Leading scholars and professionals will explore the role of character in the professions at a three-day virtual conference. Former U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine K. Albright and General Colin L. Powell (ret.) will be featured in an opening keynote session in conversation with Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch.
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The Office of the Provost invites Wake Forest colleagues to attend a joint faculty and staff update this Friday, March 5, from 4 to 5 p.m. The session will include updates on the University’s vaccine planning, post-surge campus operations and summer/fall outlook.
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Please join us today at 4 p.m. EST for Founders’ Day Convocation. Each year, the Wake Forest family gathers to observe the University’s founding in February 1834. This year’s virtual program will include a student oration, musical performances and an update from the President’s Commission on Race, Equity and Community.
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At the invitation of the Faculty Senate, Provost Rogan Kersh will give his annual address to the University this afternoon (Wednesday, Feb. 24) at 4 p.m. via Zoom.
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In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The pieces included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian spear and arrow points, knives and grinding stones. An effigy bowl from this Western Mexican Collection is one of three cultural objects inspiring a Blockchain challenge in the upcoming Wake Forest Hackathon March 6 and 7. Others include a Fijian oil bowl discovered by the 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook, and antiquities from sites in Southwest Niger. In its fourth year, the WFU Hackathon is organized and hosted by Wake Forest computer science students.
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“Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment” opens at Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Feb. 19 as part of the museum’s free reopening “Weekend of Gratitude” for members, first responders and WFU faculty, staff and students. The traveling exhibition explores pollination as a metaphor for the interconnections between art and science, among artists and across generations.
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Each year, the Wake Forest family gathers for Founders’ Day Convocation to observe the University’s founding in February 1834. This year’s virtual program on Feb. 18, 2021 will include a student oration, musical performances and an update from the President’s Commission on Race, Equity and Community provided by José Villalba, vice president for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and Erica Still, associate dean of the College for faculty recruitment, diversity and inclusion.
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