Wake Forest celebrates birthday
This week will mark the 178th birthday of Wake Forest. A group of young alumni have planned a week-long celebration, culminating on Friday, Feb. 3, the day on which Wake Forest admitted its first students.Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake
Hundreds of Wake Forest students, faculty, staff, alumni and local dignitaries were in attendance to celebrate the grand opening of the University’s new Uptown Charlotte campus during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 26.
Noted Harvard theologian Harvey G. Cox. Jr. spoke Tuesday at the School of Divinity’s Spring Convocation and joined in Wake Forest’s celebration of the establishment of the School of Divinity’s first endowed chair, the James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies.
CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien delivered the keynote address for the 12th annual Wake Forest/Winston-Salem State Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. O’Brien told stories of the early days of her career, when she faced overt racial prejudice — comparing her experiences to today's often more subtle forms of racism.
Part pep-rally, part continuing education opportunity, the Emerging Teachers Leadership Network conference this weekend is a way to show alumni teachers that the education department’s commitment to them didn’t end when they graduated.
After 16 years in Charlotte’s South Park area, Wake Forest Schools of Business now have a prominent presence in the heart of Uptown Charlotte. A dedication ceremony for the new Charlotte Center will be held January 26.
A new semester brings new opportunities and a chance to reflect on new ways of thinking. See some photos from a special exhibit by entrepreneurship students who were asked to re-imagine everyday objects.
Studying all night during exam week used to be tiresome until Wake the Library livened things up with a now-popular tradition that energizes and motivates students through the final stretch of the semester.
This evening, Wake Forest’s student art gallery (START) will unveil its final exhibition of the semester, featuring the work of 22 undergraduate students.
More than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members filled Wait Chapel, passing to each other the light from beeswax candles — a tradition that the earliest Moravians used at the Christmas lovefeast. Watch the audio slideshow of Lovefeast.