The work of 127 Wake Forest students was displayed at the fourth annual Undergraduate Research Day. Students earned funding for their projects, then executed them on campus or internationally with guidance from a faculty mentor.
Jay Bilas, a former Duke basketball star and current television analyst, told a Wake Forest audience that college athletics’ governing body, the NCAA, needs to be reformed. Bilas was speaking as part of the "Voices of our Time" series.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, University Announcements
Mike and Mary Farrell, parents of Michael Edward Farrell, a 2010 Wake Forest graduate, have pledged to give $10 million to Wake Forest toward the construction of a new building for the Schools of Business.Categories: Alumni, University Announcements
Buck Cochran ('82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability
Janelle Summerville ('10) turned her trip to Kenya into the inspiration behind last year's Wake Up! events to raise money for Kenya Kids Can!, a program which provides meals for Kenyan children.Categories: Alumni, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
The "Transforming Race Art Exhibition," a joint effort between the Winston-Salem Human Relations Department and Wake Forest's art department, opens with a public reception today at the START Gallery in Reynolda Village.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
The Wake Forest Guitar Series is back for a second season, which will begin on Sunday, Oct. 10. Pat Dixon, who teaches guitar at Wake Forest, focuses on bringing national talent to campus.Categories: Arts & Culture
Matt Gallagher ('05) planned to use Wake Forest's ROTC program as a step toward being a military lawyer. Instead, 9/11 spurred him into combat, and he turned his online journal into the book, "Kaboom."Categories: Alumni, Global Wake Forest
Two Wake Forest seniors, Cate Berenato and Katherine Sinacore, spent four weeks in Peru this summer helping to determine which programs are best at helping sustain Brazil nut harvesters, their families and the rainforest.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, University Announcements
More than 40 years ago, several black student-athletes helped break the color barrier on the ACC football fields, as well as lead Wake Forest to the school's league championship.