Home-grown health experts
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians wants to increase the number of Cherokee medical experts to address urgent community health issues in culturally respectful ways. Wake Forest is responding with a summer program to help Cherokee youth explore health careers.
In recognition of sustainability efforts, Wake Forest has received a STARS Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, is a new program that measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
The Princeton Review included Wake Forest on its annual list of the nation’s 50 “Best Value” private colleges and universities, published today.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. will make a $16 million investment in a building to be renamed Wake Forest BioTech Place in the Piedmont Triad Research Park. It will provide space for laboratories, offices and other uses, primarily for Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Mathematics professor Kenneth Berenhaut has co-authored over 50 articles with his students in the past eight years. Committed to the teacher-scholar model, he founded "Involve—A Journal of Mathematics," the only student-faculty collaborative journal in the field.
Wake Forest has long been known for its commitment to educating the whole person, and faculty and staff members are now helping students explore their spiritual side, through a mentoring program.