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Leadership and Character conference to explore character in the professions

“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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Founders’ Day Convocation is today at 4 p.m.

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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WFU Hackathon to explore blockchain’s potential in tracking art objects

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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Reynolda House presents “Cross Pollination” beginning Feb. 19 during its reopening “Weekend of Gratitude”

“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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Join us for Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 18

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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Participate in the #NoMouse Challenge now through Feb. 19

The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to spread web accessibility awareness and promote better web design. It encourages everyone to explore and test the keyboard accessibility of websites they frequent by navigating without using a mouse or trackpad. Wake Forest is joining the Challenge by encouraging all faculty, staff and students to take 10 minutes to participate today through Feb. 19.

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