WFU in the news: Sept. 12-18
Categories: Transformative Giving
Arnold Palmer Trust moves Wake Will Lead campaign past $1 billion milestone
A $1.5 million gift from Arnold Palmer’s Trust establishing the Winifred W. Palmer Professorship in Literature at Wake Forest, moved the University’s Wake Will Lead campaign beyond the $1 billion milestone. The campaign is scheduled to conclude June 30, 2020.Categories: Transformative Giving
WFU athletes win big with new sports facilities
Walk into the new Sutton Sports Performance Center and Shah Basketball Complex and you can sense the camaraderie, excitement and anticipation that comes when student-athletes have a new state-of the art facility supporting their competitiveness as athletes and their success as students.Categories: Athletics, Transformative Giving
Wake Will Lead campaign surpasses $900 million milestone
Wake Forest University has raised more than $900 million in gifts and commitments to invest in students, faculty and facilities as part of the Wake Will Lead campaign.Categories: Transformative Giving
“Call to Conversation” transcends divisiveness over dinner
In an age marked by divisiveness and distraction, Wake Forest University aims to build community and strengthen relationships through a program called “Call to Conversation.”Categories: Community Impact, Transformative Giving
Salem Hall renovation synergizes research and collaboration
Chemists study the ways in which substances interact, combine and change. Wake Forest’s newly renovated Salem Hall is the perfect place for those activities to happen both in the lab and among faculty and students.NBA All-Star Chris Paul donates $2.5 million to Wake Forest Basketball
Former Wake Forest University superstar and hometown hero Chris Paul is donating $2.5 million to support Wake Forest Basketball. The Houston Rockets point guard’s latest donation to his alma mater – the largest ever by a former basketball student-athlete or any alumnus under the age of 35 – will ensure that future generations of Demon Deacons can succeed on and off the court.Categories: Athletics, Pro Humanitate, Transformative Giving
Wake Forest celebrates transformation of Reynolds Gym into Wellbeing Center
A new 25-yard, eight-lane pool, surrounded by glass walls and three-story arched windows, is the centerpiece of the third and final phase of the transformation of historic Reynolds Gym into the Wake Forest Wellbeing Center. Categories: Transformative Giving, Wellbeing
Wake Will Lead campaign reaches $800 million milestone
Wake Forest University has raised more than $800 million in gifts and commitments to support students, faculty and capital projects as part of the Wake Will Lead campaign, as of Dec. 31, 2017.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery, Transformative Giving, University Announcements
Historic Reynolds Gym transformed into center for health and wellbeing
Two cornerstones now mark the entrance to Wake Forest University’s historic W.N. Reynolds Gymnasium. The original – 1954 – shows the year the gym was built. A new one – 2017 – marks its transformation into a dynamic new center for health and wellbeing.Categories: Campus Life, Transformative Giving, University Announcements, Wellbeing