More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff participated in Hit the Bricks, an eight-hour relay race around Hearn Plaza that honors the memory of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest All-American football player who passed away from cancer during his career with the Chicago Bears.

Seventeen students gathered for a conversation about mass incarceration with civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander before she presented a public lecture to more than 1,000 people in Wait Chapel.

In 2003, students at Wake Forest University started a tradition to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. The eight-hour relay race, along the brick pathways on campus, honors Piccolo, an alumnus who attended the University in the 1960s and former Chicago Bears running back whose story is featured in the 1971 movie [...]

“Story of My Life” follows the lives of six intellectually and developmentally disabled adults. Through photography, written and spoken word, and various visual art forms, the stories of six remarkable men and women are told. “Everyone has a story,” says Phoebe Zerwick, a lecturer in the English Department at Wake Forest University. “We want to [...]

Civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander will speak at Wake Forest University at 6 p.m. Oct. 1 in Wait Chapel as part of the University’s Voices of Our Time series. Alexander’s New York Times best-selling book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” challenges the conventional wisdom that with the election [...]

Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a life trustee who served as a U.S. Ambassador, made a $2 million gift to support student scholarships and financial aid at the Wake Forest School of Divinity.

Intensive dieting and an hour of exercise three times a week can lead to significantly less knee pain and improved function after 18 months for individuals suffering from debilitating and painful knee osteoarthritis, according to research by professor Stephen Messier and his WFU colleagues.

For the 250 million people worldwide suffering from debilitating and painful knee osteoarthritis, a new Wake Forest University study is good news. It shows intensive dieting and an hour of exercise three times a week can lead to significantly less knee pain and improved function after 18 months. The goal of the study, Intensive Diet [...]

Wearing silk saris and carrying parasols, Sonalee’s New Generation Dance Company brought “Bollywood” dance styles to campus during Wake Forest’s fifth annual World Cultural Festival. Watch video of the event.

Marion Secrest, who endowed the Secrest Artists Series, passed away on Sept. 20 at the age of 107.