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Wake Forest graduate Chip Thomas Jr. wins prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

September 30, 2026

Public artist Dr. Chip Thomas, a 1979 Wake Forest graduate, has received a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship—popularly known as the “genius grant.” The prestigious award, presented annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, recognizes artists, scholars and visionaries for exceptional originality and dedication to their creative pursuits. Fellows receive an unrestricted $800,000 award…

Categories: Alumni, Awards & Recognition

Wake Forest to hit the bricks Oct. 1 for cancer research fundraiser

September 28, 2026

Student leaders at Wake Forest University have rallied the community to run laps around Hearn Plaza on Oct. 1 for Hit the Bricks, all to raise money for cancer research. Hit the Bricks logged records last year for participation and funds raised. The annual fundraiser supports cancer research in honor of Brian Piccolo. Piccolo, a…

Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate

Wake Forest cancer research fundraiser draws record participants

October 2, 2025

Wake Forest University’s annual Hit the Bricks fundraiser inspired a record number of runners and walkers—more than 2,264—to circle Hearn Plaza on Oct. 1 in support of the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. In fact, no other student-led fundraiser at Wake Forest has attracted as many participants. This year's Hit the Bricks runners, representing a…

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Running laps for cancer research

September 29, 2025

Faith Martin is hitting the bricks Oct. 1 for Izzy, her younger sister and best friend, who lost her life to osteosarcoma in 2022, just two years after her diagnosis. Because raising money to support cancer research could make all the difference in someone’s life, events like Wake Forest University’s Hit the Bricks are so…

Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate

Presidential Memories: Jimmy Carter and Wake Forest

December 29, 2024

Former President Jimmy Carter was an outstanding national figure who influenced and inspired many across the nation, including the Wake Forest University community.

Categories: Alumni, Community Impact

Battling cancer one brick at a time

September 24, 2024

Wake Forest University hosts Hit The Bricks, drawing hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University to run or walk laps around Hearn Plaza

Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Pro Humanitate

Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Provost

April 5, 2022

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.

Categories: Alumni, Research & Discovery, University Announcements

Founders’ Day Convocation focuses on inclusion

February 26, 2021

Donna A. Boswell, Wake Forest University’s former and first female chair of the Board of Trustees, received the Medallion of Merit during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation.

Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake

Honoring ‘Strength, Resolve and Legacy’

February 6, 2020

When they moved into a women’s residence hall in 1969, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and Deborah Graves McFarlane simply wanted to obtain a good education and weren’t thinking about making history as the first African American women to come to Wake Forest as resident students. But they did.

Categories: Alumni, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Happening at Wake, Inclusive Excellence

Wake Forest University to celebrate, honor first African American women to integrate residence halls

January 29, 2020

On Feb. 1, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and four other African American women will talk candidly about their experiences at Wake Forest in the early 1970s. The 9 a.m. panel discussion in Brendle Recital Hall commemorates the 50-year anniversary of the integration of women’s residence halls at Wake Forest.

Categories: Alumni, Inclusive Excellence

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Wake Forest graduate Chip Thomas Jr. wins prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

Wake Forest to hit the bricks Oct. 1 for cancer research fundraiser

Wake Forest cancer research fundraiser draws record participants

Running laps for cancer research

Presidential Memories: Jimmy Carter and Wake Forest

Battling cancer one brick at a time

Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Provost

Founders’ Day Convocation focuses on inclusion

Honoring ‘Strength, Resolve and Legacy’

Wake Forest University to celebrate, honor first African American women to integrate residence halls

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