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Pro Humanitate & Winning Championships: Wake Forest celebrates historic $20 Million Gift from Bob McCreary, launches the McCreary Triple Double Challenge

Wake Forest University today announced a transformational $20 million gift from longtime benefactor and football alum Bob McCreary (’61), one of the most generous philanthropic leaders in Demon Deacon history. This landmark investment further elevates Wake Forest Football’s competitive trajectory and reinforces the extraordinary momentum established in head coach Jake Dickert’s first season. McCreary’s new…

Categories: Transformative Giving


Female Galápagos seabirds have flings, and males seem OK with it

Perched on a plastic chair overlooking a colony of Nazca boobies in the Galápagos Islands, researcher David Anderson carefully studied the seabirds. Anderson, a research professor and professor of biology emeritus at Wake Forest University, was shocked to discover that female Nazca boobies had hundreds of conspicuous sexual liaisons with multiple males. And, their promiscuity…

Categories: Research & Discovery


Marking 50 years of movement and motivation

For 50 years and counting, a program founded at Wake Forest University has helped thousands of people live longer, healthier lives.  Among them is Tom Mullen, the dean of the college from 1968 to 1995, who along with his wife, Ruth, works out three times a week with the Healthy Exercise & Lifestyle Programs (HELPS),…

Categories: Community Impact