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Wake Forest University will address some of the most significant issues facing scientists and society during its yearlong celebration of "Science and Technology: The Next Millennium."

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Cardinal Francis Arinze, a renowned Roman Catholic leader, will deliver the 1999 commencement address at Wake Forest University on May 17. Arinze, frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II, is president of the Vatican's office for promoting mutual understanding, respect and collaboration between Catholics and followers of other religions.

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Wake Forest University's head of preservation is a mechanic, but you won't find him in a garage. Instead, he is tucked away inside the library tinkering on books rather than cars.

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Students taking part in "The Poverty Project" in a Wake Forest University sociology class were assigned fictional families of different socioeconomic classes, from a two-parent,upper-income family to a single-parent, welfare family. They had to find jobs, housing and day care for their families. and day care for their families.

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Even overweight women are considered more attractive if they exercise, report researchers at Wake Forest University, who have found evidence of an "exercising woman" stereotype that may blunt some of the negative effects of America's obsession with body shape and size.

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A Laysan albatross tracked by Wake Forest University biologists has flown more than 24,843 miles in flights across the North Pacific to find food for its chick in just 90 days - flights equivalent to circling the globe.

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Wake Forest University biologist David Anderson normally studies seabirds in the wild without much company, but thousands of schoolkids are tagging along this time via a Web site and e-mail. The Albatross Project is tracking Hawaiian albatrosses by satellite to find ways to reverse losses to longline fishing and answer evolutionary questions raised by their flights.