Building on its liberal arts tradition, Wake Forest University has established the Wake Forest Humanities Institute to support innovative scholarship and collaboration in the humanities.Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Sixty-five teams of Wake Forest students, faculty and staff competed in an all-day relay race around Hearn Plaza on Thursday to raise both money and awareness for the fight against cancer.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Nancy Suttenfield, senior vice president and chief financial officer, announced today she will step down from her position at Wake Forest University effective October 13, 2010.Categories: University Announcements
G. McLeod Bryan, professor emeritus of religion known for championing racial justice and human rights, died Wednesday at the age of 90. His memorial service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wait Chapel.Categories: Research & Discovery
Student government president Natalie Halpern has a track record of leading people and getting projects accomplished in her time at Wake Forest.
Wake Forest students Henderson Trefzger and Przemyslaw “Dalton” Wilczewski traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this summer for the Global Model United Nations conference.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Wake Forest has launched a redesigned website, including the home page, news sites and Inside WFU, a community-focused site targeted to faculty and staff. The rollout also features a new content-management system.Categories: University Announcements
Mike Duke, the president and CEO of Wal-Mart, described his company's global growth strategy during the first presentation in the 2010-11 Leading Out Loud lecture series at the Schools of Business. Categories: Global Wake Forest, University Announcements
Wake Forest professor Mary Martin Niepold's social entrepreneurship stands out because of her age, writes the Raleigh News & Observer. In her late 60s, she's leading the Nyanya Project, which helps grandmothers raising AIDS orphans in Africa, while most of her peers are 35 and under.Categories: Global Wake Forest, Research & Discovery
The video game CellCraft, developed by a team of scientists, middle-schoolers and software developers based at Wake Forest, has been played more than 2.5 million times worldwide. Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements