Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will significantly increase their impact on the region, the nation and the world by investing $1 billion over the next five years to strengthen and renew their ability to carry out their respective missions. With the help of alumni, parents and friends, the University will invest […]

“Wake Will: The Campaign for Wake Forest” represents the largest mobilization of support for the mission of Wake Forest in the institution’s 179-year history. Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will significantly increase their impact on the region, the nation and the world by investing $1 billion over the next five years to strengthen and renew their ability to carry out their respective missions.

A new kind of hands-free communication device developed by Wake Forest could help people with speech impediments and poor motor control interact with the world around them.

The first in his family to go to college, Joseph Belangia has made it his mission to mentor other first generation students so that they also find their unique place in the Forest.

Fatty grease extracted from sewer waste may one day fuel your car and power your home. Chemists at Wake Forest University recently developed a sugar-based compound that makes it cheaper and easier to turn low-quality fats and oils into affordable biodiesel. The results of their work will appear in an upcoming edition of the journal […]

In 1989, a Wake Forest freshman named Libby Bell started a Halloween festival on campus for local children. Twenty-five years later, Project Pumpkin has become a Wake Forest tradition that participating schools and agencies in Winston-Salem look forward to each year. This year, more than 700 Wake Forest student volunteers will welcome children from local […]

“The United States is the most abundant food-producing country in the world, yet 52 million Americans are hungry,“ states Hunger U, a traveling bus tour that stops at universities across the country to educate students, faculty and staff about global hunger issues. The next stop on their tour is Wake Forest University. Who: Wake Forest […]

Wake Forest researchers recently developed a sugar-based compound that makes it cheaper and easier to turn low-quality fats and oils into affordable biodiesel.

In 1989, a Wake Forest freshman named Libby Bell started a Halloween festival on campus for local children. Twenty-five years later, Project Pumpkin has become a Wake Forest tradition that participating schools and agencies in Winston-Salem look forward to each year. This year, more than 700 Wake Forest student volunteers will welcome children from local […]

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University and Old Salem in conjunction with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources are joining together to host “Lay My Burden Down,” a conference for experts and non-experts alike that will explore issues of freedom as part of the North Carolina’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil […]