News
Focus on food in the forest
November 5, 2014 | Campus Life, Events, Faculty, Speakers, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Top Stories 2013-2014, Uncategorized
Justice. Politics. Access. Quality. Insecurity. Production. Deserts. Sustainability. One word that connects all of these words is FOOD. At Wake Forest, references to these terms – food justice, food quality, food politics – can be found everywhere, woven into the fabric of students’ lives through their course work, extra-curricular activities and service learning opportunities.
News
What can I do with an English major?
October 29, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: OPCD, Admissions, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, Thrive / Wellbeing, Top Stories
Wake Forest helps students answer questions about the connections between major and career — giving them confidence as they meet with potential employers and learn how to talk about what talents and skills they bring to the workplace.
News
Research Day, a hallmark event
October 27, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Events, Faculty, Mentoring, Research, Student, Top Stories
Research Day is a highlight of the academic year, showcasing the personal interaction and intellectual exchange between students and faculty.
News
Evening the odds
October 20, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Faculty, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Despite losing her vision three years ago, Kathryn Webster entered Wake Forest last fall with the goal of pursuing a dual degree in mathematics and business. Faculty and staff found a novel suite of technologies to help her see math clearly.
News
Wake Forest “Hits the Bricks” for cancer
October 3, 2014 | 2014 Highlights, Alumni, Campus Life, Community, Events, Faculty, Staff, Student, Thrive / Wellbeing, Top Stories, Uncategorized, University Announcement
A Wake Forest tradition, Hit the Bricks is an eight-hour relay race along the brick pathways of Hearn Plaza in honor of Brian Piccolo, a Wake Forest alumnus and Chicago Bears running back who died of cancer at age 26.
News
Internship on the world’s stage
September 26, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: OPCD, Faculty, Personal and Career Development, Staff, Student, Top Stories
David Hughes (’15), a computer science major, spent the past five months working on Intel’s Connected Wheelchair Project, which was unveiled at Intel’s annual development conference held mid-September in San Francisco. The Connected Wheelchair Project received international attention as a result of an endorsement from world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
News
Recognized for addressing stress
September 23, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Wellbeing, Admissions, Campus Life, Faculty, Thrive / Wellbeing, Top Stories
U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2015 guidebook, which hits newsstands this week, highlights Wake Forest’s leadership in the national trend of promoting students’ social and emotional wellbeing. The story shows how schools like WFU tackle stress to provide a better environment for students.
News
A new home for Campus Kitchen
September 17, 2014 | 2014 Highlights, Campus Life, Community, Events, Staff, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories, Uncategorized
On Friday, Sept. 19, the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University will hold a grand opening for its new home in the heart of campus. Officially opening its doors in 2006, the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest has continued to grow every year since.
News
Fossil has lips like Jagger
September 10, 2014 | 2014 Highlights: Research, Faculty, Research, Top Stories
When anthropologist Ellen Miller discovered a fossil for a new species with large, signature lips, it gave her great “satisfaction” to name the creature after Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger.
News
U.S. News ranks WFU among top 30
September 9, 2014 | 2014 Highlights, Recognition, Top Stories
U.S. News and World Report’s 2015 Best Colleges guide ranked the University 27th among 280 national universities. Wake Forest has been ranked in the top 30 in the national universities category for 19 consecutive years and has been ranked in the top 25 five times.
News Archives
Wake Forest in the News
Wake Forest regularly appears in media outlets around the world.