News
Deacon making mark in NASCAR
October 25, 2010 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, Top Stories
Dion Williams, a former Wake Forest football player, has gone from not knowing anything about cars to becoming one of the best rear-tire carriers in NASCAR. He appeared Sunday on the TV show “Undercover Boss.”
News
Alumnus leads Pro Bono Week
October 25, 2010 | Alumni, For Alumni, Speakers, Top Stories
The School of Law’s Pro Bono Project will host David Smith (’84) for a discussion on the importance of pro bono work as part of this week’s National Pro Bono Week. Smith will speak at noon on Tuesday.
News
Dressing the part
October 24, 2010 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
When senior Caroline Dignes designs costumes for a play, she helps create a world for actors and audience alike. Her latest project is Moliere’s “Imaginary Cuckold,” which opens this week in the Mainstage Theatre.
News
CEO shares some secrets
October 22, 2010 | For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
A group of Schools of Business students received advice on how to be an effective leader from Susan Ivey, who became one of corporate America’s most prominent female executives during her time at Reynolds American Inc.
News
Lighting takes shape
October 21, 2010 | Research, Scholars and Scientists, Top Stories
Researchers at Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have developed an inexpensive new light source that’s cool to the touch, won’t break if dropped, and can be molded into any shape.
News
Expressions of humanity
October 21, 2010 | Community, For Parents, International, Life on Campus, National, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Patricia Willis, activist-in-residency with the women’s and gender studies program, and students in her human rights class organized the Human Rights Clothesline Project. Members of the community painted T-shirts with messages about human rights violations, then hung them on 60-foot clotheslines.
News
Students take fall service trip
October 21, 2010 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Ten students spent fall break on a service trip to Cove Creek Farm, a residential retreat for at-risk young men and their families near Boone, N.C. Wake Forest has traditionally offered spring break service trips, but this was the first fall break service trip offered by the university.
News
Symposium celebrates A.R. Ammons
October 19, 2010 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Provost, Top Stories
“Single Threads Unbraided,” a celebration of the poetry, art and letters of A.R. Ammons will be held Nov. 15–16 at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
News
Insights on college interviews
October 19, 2010 | Admissions, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
As high school students apply to college this fall, Wake Forest’s Director of Admissions Martha Allman offers interviewing tips.
News
Giving back to the community
October 18, 2010 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Student, Top Stories
More than 100 faculty and staff members and about 75 students have joined forces to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity this fall. Groups have been working on the house in the Smith Farm neighborhood, near Kernersville.
News Archives
Wake Forest in the News
Wake Forest regularly appears in media outlets around the world.