For each of the past 20 years, the TurkeyPalooza planning team at Wake Forest University has felt the pressure: The holidays always bring an increased demand for meals among Forsyth County neighbors and with food prices on the rise, this year is no different. Community partners have requested extra, scratch-made Thanksgiving meals through TurkeyPalooza. That’s…
Categories: Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
Wake Forest University students will welcome hundreds of local schoolchildren to campus from 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the annual Project Pumpkin fall festival on Hearn Plaza. The University’s largest student-led community-building event, launched more than 35 years ago, Project Pumpkin invites children to the Reynolda campus for trick-or-treating, entertainment and activities. Leading up…
Categories: Community Impact
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
Archaeologist Terry Brock and a team of students are working to salvage artifacts from Historic Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem. Their efforts to conserve and catalog thousands of pieces of pottery and other items from Bethabara (pronounced beth-ab-uh-ruh) will shed light on the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina, which dates to the 1750s. A new…
Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, Undergraduate research
Wake Forest has selected Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) as an exclusive beverage supplier. The new 10-year pouring rights agreement with PBV represents an inclusive approach to providing University-wide collaborative opportunities to corporate partners. The contract expands Wake Forest’s longstanding relationship with Pepsi beyond Athletics into a comprehensive collaboration serving Reynolda Campus, Wake Downtown and The…
Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, University Announcements
For six weeks every summer, mornings at Wake Forest University’s Carswell Hall resonate with singing, cheers and reading aloud as dozens of Forsyth County students start their day at Freedom School. They call the daily morning meetings Harambee, a Swahili word that means “come together.” At this gathering, this year’s group of 60 Freedom School…
Categories: Community Impact, Pro Humanitate
This day’s visit to the Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Day Center begins with a poem, “Spring” by William Blake. Five teams of Wake Forest University students spread out across the Winston-Salem center’s sunny gathering spaces, each paired with a group of the older adults who use the Williams Center’s services. In each group, a…
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning
In a fitting presentation for Earth Day, Wake Forest senior Scarlett Johnson showed Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines and Fire Chief Trey Mayo the mobile solar-powered trailer a team of engineering students designed and built. Johnson pointed out the 48-volt solar panels, the inverter box, the lithium iron phosphate batteries and the stabilizing jacks added to…
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning
Wake Forest students, alumni and faculty have long been part of the RiverRun International Film Festival, and that tradition continues this week when the festival returns for its 28th run. “I think that most people don’t realize how lucky we are to have a film festival as strong as RiverRun right here in our back…
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Uncategorized
In January 2026, Wake Forest announced its expanding leadership in the rapidly growing field of neuroarts, where research shows how creative expression can support brain health, strengthen well-being, and deepen human connection. On February 13, artists, scholars, clinicians, service organizations, community members and funders gathered to drum, dance and reframe community conversations about the arts…
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Research & Discovery