Cheryl Walker

When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.

As he celebrated Wake Forest’s first-ever win in the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) National Championship sophomore competitor Dimarvin Puerto said Wake Debate’s strength comes from the community its coaches and teammates have created.“ He and Asya Taylor won the championship held April 8-13.

Three Wake Forest faculty – math and statistics professor Abbey Bourdon, engineering professor Erin Henslee and chemistry professor John Lukesh – have been named National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winners. Each will receive a five-year grant ranging from $400,000 to $625,000 to support their work.

More than two dozen Wake Forest faculty and students will take part in the annual “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival,” April 8-10 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington.

Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente has appointed Michele Gillespie, current Dean of Wake Forest’s College of Arts and Sciences, to succeed Rogan Kersh as University Provost, effective July 1, 2022.