WFU in the news: Sept. 11-17, 2023
September 21, 2023 | Top Stories, Wake Forest in the News
Selected news clips courtesy of the Wake Forest News & Communications team
WFU Theatre opens 2023-24 season with ‘Witness for the Prosecution’
September 20, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Top Stories
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.
Wake Forest student wins prestigious NASA Research Grant
September 19, 2023 | Top Stories
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.
U.S. News overhauls ranking methodology
September 18, 2023 | Top Stories, University Announcement
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.
New hope for treating cardiovascular diseases
September 14, 2023 | Top Stories
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.
Face to Face to host presidential historians Goodwin and Beschloss
September 14, 2023 | Top Stories
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.
Strengthening the next generation of Peruvian Amazonian Leaders
September 13, 2023 | Top Stories
Young leaders from six Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon will head back home with a new vision and resources to tackle pressing environmental and social issues in their communities. During their visit to Wake Forest University this month, the Indigenous leader delegation spent several […]
50 years later, the coup in Chile and its lessons on democracy
September 11, 2023 | Top Stories
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.
WFU in the news: Sept. 4-10, 2023
September 11, 2023 | Top Stories, Wake Forest in the News
Selected news clips courtesy of Wake Forest University News & Communications
Wake Forest names Corey D.B. Walker Dean of the Divinity School
September 7, 2023 | School of Divinity, Top Stories, University Announcement
Distinguished scholar of religion Corey D. B. Walker has been named Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
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