In a speech filled with urgency and hope, award-winning '60 Minutes' journalist and author Scott Pelley delivered a powerful commencement message to Wake Forest University's Class of 2025, telling them, “Your country needs you.” “America works well when we listen to those with whom we disagree and when we listen and when we have common…
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Wake Forest University has been selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to receive an IIE American Passport Project grant. The funds enable up to 25 Wake Forest students to obtain their first U.S. passport, opening the pathway to study abroad. The American Passport Project represents IIE’s commitment to promoting international education and exchange…
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Wake Forest University junior Mai Soliman, a biochemistry and molecular biology major and Winston-Salem native, has been named a 2025 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, placing her among 441 outstanding college students nationwide to receive the award for the 2025-26 academic year. The Goldwater Scholarship, the nation's premier undergraduate award for STEM students, identifies future scientific…
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Junior sociology major Eli Leadham has been named a 2025 Truman Scholar. The Truman Scholarship, created to support the future of public service in America, is the most competitive national scholarship program for juniors in the country. Out of 743 applications, 54 college students from 49 institutions were selected. “I am standing on so many…
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The New Yorker once described Charlotte C. Weber Professor of American Art David Lubin as “the esteemed scholar of art history in relation to popular culture.” On April 26, leading art scholars gathered at Reynolda House Museum of American Art for an interdisciplinary symposium held in honor of Lubin’s retirement from Wake Forest University. He…
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