Each year, Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students adopt children in the community through the Angel Tree. This provides holiday gifts for children in need through Big Brothers Big Sisters and The Potters House. More than 100 children who would not otherwise receive presents are […]
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Wake Forest on Saturday, Dec. 8, will test two of the methods it uses to announce campus emergencies — the outdoor alert system and the text/phone alert system. Both are part of Wake Alert, the University’s emergency notification program, which provides information and advisories […]
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After her “Book Talk” event at the Mount Airy (N.C.) Public Library on Oct. 18, Michele Gillespie, the Kahle Family Professor of History at Wake Forest, was presented the “Key to the City” of Mount Airy. The “Key” was presented to Gillespie on behalf of […]
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Professor Beth Hopkins (’73) was among nine Wake Forest women recognized at the 2012 Women of Justice Awards reception at the Raleigh Marriott City Center on Nov. 15. Hopkins, who is the director of outreach for the School of Law, received the Legal Scholar Award. North […]
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Congratulations to Freddie Salsbury, associate professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Metal Occupancy of Zinc Finger Motifs as Determinants for Zn2+-Mediated Chemosensitization of Prostate Cancer Cells” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and WFU Health Sciences (WFU funding agency). Congratulations to Errin […]
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The Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology received the inaugural “Award for Collection Preservation Excellence” from the North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) during the NCPC’s annual conference. The award honors those committed to collections preservation and is intended to raise public awareness of the organizational […]
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The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has named nine new members to its board of trustees, including Jennifer Collins, the assistant provost for academic initiatives at Wake Forest. The Arts Council also choose officers, and Marybeth Wallace, a special assistant to President Nathan […]
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Jarrod Atchison presented the papers “Open Source Evidence: An Analysis of the First Year”; “Spectrum of Interrogation: Developing a New Vocabulary for Affirmative Cases in Intercollegiate Policy Debate”; and “The Role of Evidence Production, Consumption and Communication in an Era of Digital Information.” Jarrod participated […]
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Congratulations to Miles R. Silman, professor of biology, who had the following proposals funded: “Lidar and Radar Interferometry Combined Model to Quantify Variations of Forest Structure and Biomass Along Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropical Montane Forests” has been funded by the NASA and the California […]
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The ACE Fellows Program, in partnership with the Institute for Public Engagement, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Dean of the College, provides support for selected faculty fellows interested in incorporating service-learning into their courses. The program provides stipends of $1,250 […]
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