WFU in the news: Sept. 18-24, 2023
Selected news clips courtesy of the Wake Forest News & Communications teamCategories: University Announcements
Selected news clips courtesy of the Wake Forest News & Communications team$5M gift from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation advances environment and sustainability efforts
With a leadership gift from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, Wake Forest University will substantially expand its work to answer the world’s most pressing environmental and sustainability questions.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, University Announcements
WFU in the news: Sept. 11-17, 2023
Selected news clips courtesy of the Wake Forest News & Communications teamCategories: University Announcements
WFU Theatre opens 2023-24 season with ‘Witness for the Prosecution’
WFU Theatre is launching its 2023-24 season with Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution." The play opens on the Tedford Stage on Friday, Sept. 22.Categories: Arts & Culture
Wake Forest student wins prestigious NASA Research Grant
NASA recently awarded graduate student David Carchipulla-Morales the prestigious "Future Investigators NASA Earth and Space Science Technology" grant. Only about 100 proposals were selected for the grant out of nearly a thousand applications.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
U.S. News overhauls ranking methodology
In its new 2023-24 assessment of national universities, U.S. News and World Report changed 17 of the 19 indicators used to calculate its rankings of institutions in this category. Wake Forest University ranks 47th among 435 universities. Categories: University Announcements
New hope for treating cardiovascular diseases
In a significant step toward developing new treatments to mend blood vessels damaged by heart attacks and strokes, scientists at Wake Forest University and University of Maryland have discovered how to amplify the effects of an important signaling molecule in the blood. The study published today in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Chemical Biology.Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
Face to Face to host presidential historians Goodwin and Beschloss
Political historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss will join the Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation with journalist E.J. Dionne on Wed., Sept. 27.Categories: University Announcements
Strengthening the next generation of Peruvian Amazonian Leaders
Categories: University Announcements
50 years later, the coup in Chile and its lessons on democracy
Politics professor Peter Siavelis answers questions about the complicated role the United States played in the 1973 coup in Chile and why democracy should not be taken for granted.Categories: Experts