WFU’s Educating Character Initiative announces 2025 Capacity-Building Grant recipients
The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, has awarded 40 grants of up to $50,000, impacting 42 institutions nationwide seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education. “We were overwhelmed by the quality of the proposals we received this…Categories: Community Impact, Leadership & Character
A virtual tutoring program started by Wake Forest University during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved into a permanent educational resource for hundreds of families in Forsyth County. The free online program is celebrating its fifth anniversary this spring. More than 730 Wake Forest students have led weekly one-on-one online tutoring sessions…
A group of Wake Forest students had a chance to participate in a discussion with MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Jesmyn Ward when the University’s Program for Leadership and Character invited Ward to launch a conference on “Educating Character Across Differences: Cultivating Communities of Character.” In addition to launching the conference, Ward participated in a moderated…
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $15.6 million in Institutional Impact Grants to 24 projects among 29 colleges and universities seeking to undertake a substantial and sustained effort to educate character in undergraduate populations across their institutions.
The Honesty Project, a three-year, $4M exploration of the truth about honesty led by Wake Forest University, concluded this month. The result: a better understanding of when and how to be honest and of what fosters honesty in individuals, organizations and societies.
As part of the University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, political historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss talked with Wake Forest students about leadership and character by shining a light on the U.S. presidency. 
Sophomore Hannah Martin and Patricia Dos Santos, an associate professor of chemistry, are tackling the problem of how to target harmful bacteria while sparing beneficial bacteria that make it possible for humans to live healthy lives. 
The key to developing drought-resistant tomatoes may be hidden in the genes of their ancestors. Rising junior Kathleen DiNapoli is on a hunt to find it.
A new compound created by Wake Forest chemists could help scientists probe the secrets behind deadly forms of cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. The research is featured in the current edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. 
An iPhone app developed by a team of Wake Forest freshmen could one day enable patrons at campus restaurants to vote for what songs play over the speakers.