As with most empires of the Early Modern Era (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a vast and unprecedented scale. A new book by Assistant Professor of History Charles L. Wilkins examines how the constant warfare challenged and reshaped […]
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Omari Simmons, professor of law, has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Less than one percent of lawyers are named fellows. Read more. He has also been named to the American Law Institute, one of the highest honors in the legal […]
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The October issue of the Staff Advisory Council newsletter has information on an upcoming special staff appreciation event hosted by the SAC and a great article about a staff member living the University motto of Pro Humanitate. The newsletter also offers information on some other […]
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John Llewellyn, professor of communciation, published “Paws, Pathos and Presidential Persuasion: Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Fala Speech’ as Precursor and Model for Richard Nixon’s ‘Checkers Speech,’” in the journal of the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota (Vol. 37, 2010). He also published the guest editorial […]
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Robert Ulery, professor of classical languages, gave one of the invited papers at a conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sponsored by the Concordia Theological Seminary, on “Lutheranism and the Classics,” on October 1-2. His topic was “Fundamenta Fideliter Iecit: Lutheran Eloquence and the Muses of […]
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Jennifer Erway, assistant professor of mathematics, together with Joseph Tyson (MA ’09) and Roummel Marcia, won “Best Paper” at the 2010 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics in London, UK.
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Steve Giles and Gary Miller led a group of students on a service-learning trip to Nicaragua this summer. Giles is professor of communication, and Miller is a professor of health and exercise science. Giles also took a group of students on a service trip […]
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Dan Locklair, composer-in-residence and professor of music, had his music broadcast nationwide the week of Sept. 19 on the syndicated radio program, With Heart and Voice (carried locally on WFDD, 7 a.m. each Sunday). The program included his choral works, Pater Noster and Create in […]
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Linda Early (’70), head of monographic acquisitions in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, was named one of the University’s Employees of the Year in October. She has worked at Wake Forest for 26 years, in the University Theatre, College Bookstore and, for the last 20 […]
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Brenda Latham-Sadler, MD, associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has received the 2010 Award for Distinguished Service in the Health Field from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Read more.
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