WFU in the news: April 4-10
Selected news clips courtesy of Wake Forest University News & CommunicationsCategories: University Announcements
Selected news clips courtesy of Wake Forest University News & CommunicationsThree Wake Forest faculty win NSF CAREER Awards
Three Wake Forest faculty – math and statistics professor Abbey Bourdon, engineering professor Erin Henslee and chemistry professor John Lukesh – have been named National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winners. Each will receive a five-year grant ranging from $400,000 to $625,000 to support their work.Categories: University Announcements
Students get Face to Face with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
As part of the University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta fielded student questions at a special program in Wait Chapel.Categories: University Announcements
Wake Forest selected for Public Health AmeriCorps
Beginning in the fall, 15 Wake Forest University community members will get to explore public health in a real-world context by participating in Public Health AmeriCorps, a federally funded program designed to improve lives, strengthen communities and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.Categories: University Announcements
WFU Face to Face Speaker Forum announces 2022-23 lineup
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States and Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will launch this upcoming second season of the Face to Face Speaker Forum.Categories: University Announcements
Face to Face with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and multiple Emmy-award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN will join the Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel.Categories: University Announcements
ACCelerate Festival to showcase WFU exhibits at Smithsonian
More than two dozen Wake Forest faculty and students will take part in the annual “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival,” April 8-10 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington.Categories: University Announcements
Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Provost
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
Wake Forest celebrates entrepreneurship with ‘Entrepalooza’
Entrepalooza, a celebration of entrepreneurship and Wake Forest student entrepreneurs, will be held April 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the Scales Fine Arts Center in Brendle Recital Hall. Categories: University Announcements
High Performance Computing: Collaborations power research & learning
In a temperature-controlled room located in an out-of-the-way part of campus, rows of computers are humming, blinking and whirring in a High-Performance Computing Center called the DEAC Cluster.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, University Announcements