Comings and goings for May 2018
See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in May 2018:
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SAC encourages staff to participate in survey about recent campus picnic
On June 25, the Staff Advisory Council emailed a survey to University staff that, apparently, ended up in the spam folder of some staff. The following is the message that was sent to staff, earlier this week. Links to the survey are included:
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Wiethaus, Gurstelle lead students along Cherokee Trail of Tears
Two Wake Forest faculty members, recently, traveled with a group of students along the Northern Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears from Cherokee, N.C., to Oklahoma. The westernmost destination for the summer immersion trip, which ran from June 5-14, was Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, where late Wake Forest President James Ralph Scales served as president before leading Wake Forest from 1967 to 1983. Scales was a member of the Cherokee Nation. A statue of Scales, an OBU graduate, stands on the Shawnee campus.
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Staff and faculty milestones June 2018
See a list of staff and faculty milestones for June 2018:
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Proposals funded: Williams, Thonhauser, Bonin, Muday
Congratulations to Richard Williams, professor emeritus of physics, whose proposal entitled “Improvement of Scintillators mainly Experimental WFU subcontract from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and by (subaward/subcontract from) University of California.
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WFDD wins prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award
The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has awarded 88.5 WFDD a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation for its Community Conversation on Mental Health. This comes after the station received three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Large Market Radio […]
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Gathering for Bingrui (Zachary) Zhang
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, The Wake Forest University Office of the Chaplain will host an informal gathering space to remember, share stories, and support one another following the death of Bingrui (Zachary) Zhang. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to gather in the […]
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Faculty books: May 2018
Coates, David. (Politics & International Affairs). Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and Its Resolution (Building Progressive Alternatives series). Agenda Publishing. May 2018. Curtis, Michael Kent, J. Wilson Parker, William G. Ross, Davison M Douglas, & Paul Finkelman. (Law). Constitutional Law in Context, 4th ed. […]
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Bingrui (Zachary) Zhang
President Hatch emailed this announcement to students, faculty and staff on June 19: Dear Wake Forest Students, Faculty and Staff, I am deeply saddened to inform you that Bingrui (Zachary) Zhang, a rising junior biophysics major from Beijing, China, has died. He was found unresponsive […]
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WFU student entrepreneurs are choosing Winston-Salem for startups
Last year, Wake Forest University joined leaders from five other local colleges and universities in pledging to incentivize entrepreneurship among their students and keep the best and brightest young business minds in Winston-Salem. Inmar’s chairman and CEO David Mounts envisioned this collaborative program and […]
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