Nearly a decade ago, Kristen Beavers, who studies safe ways for older adults to lose weight, began asking whether weighted vests could help this population drop pounds without sacrificing vital bone mass and lean muscle. Now, in 2025, she routinely gets requests from national media, community groups and individuals interested in better ways to work…Categories: Experts, Research & Discovery
The Board of Trustees announced the launch of a national search for Wake Forest University’s next president. Earlier this month, President Susan R. Wente announced plans to step down at the end of June 2026. A message was sent today to the Wake Forest community from Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt, chair of the Wake Forest Board…Categories: University Announcements
The Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the NYSE, recently announced a strategic investment of up to $2 billion in Polymarket. This massive institutional buy-in is a watershed moment for the prediction market industry, moving it from the crypto-adjacent fringe directly into the financial mainstream. Wake Forest University economics professor Koleman Strumpf, a leading political…Categories: Experts
On Saturday, Oct. 25, Wake Forest will celebrate the renaming of South Residence Hall to Hopkins Residence Hall in honor of Larry and Beth Hopkins, two trailblazing alumni with deep ties to the University and Winston-Salem. The program begins at 10 a.m. The announcement of the renaming of South Hall was shared at the University’s…Categories: Awards & Recognition
Wake Forest University’s annual Hit the Bricks fundraiser inspired a record number of runners and walkers—more than 2,264—to circle Hearn Plaza on Oct. 1 in support of the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. In fact, no other student-led fundraiser at Wake Forest has attracted as many participants. This year's Hit the Bricks runners, representing a…Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
Studio art major Blair Newsome wanted to find sustainable ways to reconcile the use of oil paint in art classes with ecological responsibility. She combined pigment powders with seed oils, plant-based solvents, and historical binders such as egg tempera as part of her research project. “These materials, though slower to prepare, proved cost-effective, reusable, and…Categories: Research & Discovery
Dr. Susan R. Wente announced today that she will step down as Wake Forest University’s president on June 30, 2026. She has served as Wake Forest’s 14th president and a Distinguished University Professor of Biology and Biochemistry since July 2021. Categories: University Announcements
Faith Martin is hitting the bricks Oct. 1 for Izzy, her younger sister and best friend, who lost her life to osteosarcoma in 2022, just two years after her diagnosis. Because raising money to support cancer research could make all the difference in someone’s life, events like Wake Forest University’s Hit the Bricks are so…Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
NOTE: Questions from prospective students and families should be directed to . Questions from media should be directed to . Wake Forest University announced today that undergraduates from North Carolina with annual family incomes less than $200,000 will attend tuition-free, beginning for students admitted for the 2026 fall semester. For North Carolina students with an…Categories: University Announcements
Wake Forest University has announced that Boswell Presidential Chair in Neuroscience and Society Kenneth T. Kishida is its newest Wells Fargo Faculty Scholar. Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements