Cheryl Walker

Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI) will expand its support for character education at colleges and universities across the country with more than $30 million in new funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The ECI has built a community of educators from more than 400 higher education institutions engaged in developing and implementing ideas for integrating character education on their campuses.

Teenagers are often seen as moody, rebellious and overly focused on what their peers think. Wake Forest Psychology Professor Christy Buchanan says these stereotypes can hinder good parenting and negatively affect parent-teen relationships. Buchanan, a developmental psychologist, has spent years researching parenting beliefs and practices. Her research suggests that negative stereotypes about adolescents can lead…

Wake Forest University is dramatically increasing its impact in North Carolina by developing a new academic campus in The Pearl, Charlotte’s innovation district. The Pearl officially opened its doors this week. Anchored by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the expansion is poised to transform medical education, research and economic development in one of…

The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, has awarded 40 grants of up to $50,000, impacting 42 institutions nationwide seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education.  “We were overwhelmed by the quality of the proposals we received this…

When Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in 2024, the disaster added to the city’s complex transportation challenges. A Wake Forest University team used mathematics to model solutions to the city’s transportation woes. The three undergraduate students – Tougzhou Liang,  Zhanyi Qi and Flora Yi – were awarded one of the two top prizes by the…