Can a text, tweet or status update help you share the love? Students in a Wake Forest English class who are studying written language in a digital era say electronic messages get the point across as well as provide constant contact with the ones you love.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library has recently joined HathiTrust as a sustaining partner. HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of 13 universities to establish a repository for archiving and sharing library collections that were digitized as part of the initial Google Book project. Today, over 60 research libraries worldwide have committed to long-term availability of the cultural record. [...]

Senior Bo Machayo, a second generation African-American, will be the first in his family to earn an undergraduate degree in America. Determined to become a catalyst for good and to serve the campus community, Machayo joined Pi Kappa Alpha, serving as community service chair and president.

The Wake Forest University Board of Trustees approved raising undergraduate tuition by 3.5 percent for the 2013-2014 academic year during its winter meeting on Feb. 8. Undergraduate tuition will increase from the current $42,700 to $44,200 next year. The decision reflects a determined effort to keep tuition increases low. For the third year in a [...]

What policy issues will President Obama spotlight in his State of the Union address next Tuesday? Of course, reviving the economy and creating jobs will be the central message, Wake Forest professor of politics David Coates says. In a Huffington Post blog post, “Waiting for the State of the Union,” Coates says, “We are also [...]

Wake Forest students spent three weeks with visiting actor and director Tim Miller producing “VOX” (which is Latin for “voice”) — creating a production based on their own personal stories, experiences and memories.

The University is named to The Princeton Review’s 2013 “Best Value Colleges” list, announced today.

Wake Forest was named to The Princeton Review’s annual list of “Best Value Colleges,” published today. The Princeton Review 2013 “Best Value Colleges” highlights 150 undergraduate schools: 75 public and 75 private institutions, based on more than 30 data points covering academics, cost and financial aid.  In each group, The Princeton Review ranks the top [...]

Danielle Gallant, a senior sociology major, traveled to India to lead a group of 10 students volunteering in the University’s City of Joy program. She shares her reasons for going and what she learned from working with the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.

What will define our future? Our ability to share humor through social media? Our quest to use Google to escape memorization? Or the impact our consumer society will have on our environment? These are the kinds of questions the second TEDxWakeForestU event on Feb. 23 will answer with nine unique speakers. TEDxWakeForestU, an independently organized event [...]