Senior Lisa Northrop was one of 34 college students from across North Carolina to receive the Community Impact Student Award and a volunteer recognition certificate of appreciation from Governor Beverly Perdue. Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Students turned Hearn Plaza into Hogwarts for this year’s Harry Potter-themed Project Pumpkin. The 22nd annual Halloween Festival brought more than 1,100 Winston-Salem area children from local agencies and organizations to campus for an afternoon of scary and not-so-scary fun.
Law-school students working with professor Carol Turowski and Wake Forest's Innocence and Justice Clinic are investigating the innocence claim of a former Winston-Salem man who has been convicted twice of killing his lover’s husband in South Carolina. 
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.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
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. Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
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. Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
The Chaplain’s Office is sponsoring several programs this semester to promote interfaith dialogue and cooperation. Read the story on Inside WFU, Wake Forest’s new faculty and staff website.Categories: Community Impact
Buck Cochran ('82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability
Sixty-five teams of Wake Forest students, faculty and staff competed in an all-day relay race around Hearn Plaza on Thursday to raise both money and awareness for the fight against cancer.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning
The video game CellCraft, developed by a team of scientists, middle-schoolers and software developers based at Wake Forest, has been played more than 2.5 million times worldwide. Categories: Community Impact, Research & Discovery, University Announcements