Meet the new faculty
With the opening of the academic year, Wake Forest welcomes over 50 new faculty members — a group Provost Jill Tiefenthaler describes as rare in higher education, committed to focusing on teaching as...
View ArticleHeading South
South America’s increasing strength as a player in the world economy, the region’s political history, and its cultural and ecological resources have led Wake Forest University to establish a...
View ArticleNew Wake Forest websites launch
Wake Forest has launched a redesigned website, featuring a fresh look and the first university-wide implementation of a content management system (CMS). As part of the overall project, the home page...
View ArticleHumanities Institute established
Building on its liberal arts tradition, Wake Forest University has established the Wake Forest Humanities Institute to support innovative scholarship and collaboration in the humanities. Wake Forest...
View ArticleSymposium celebrates A.R. Ammons
“Single Threads Unbraided,” a celebration of the work of poet A.R. Ammons will be held Nov. 15 – 16 at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. The symposium will examine Ammons’ poetry, art and letters as well...
View ArticleCalled to act
Emmy-award-winning journalist Simran Sethi and Bennett College President Julianne Malveaux spoke at Wake Forest on Nov. 11, encouraging people to change the way they think about environmental justice....
View ArticleProvost will become president of Colorado College
Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch announced today that Jill Tiefenthaler will step down as provost to become the thirteenth president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her resignation as...
View ArticleNicaragua Nexus
Thanks to donors Karyn and Tom Dingledine, a new learning center is available to students studying abroad in Nicaragua. The facility, dedicated in February, supports learning opportunities for...
View ArticleWake Forest appoints new provost
Wake Forest has appointed Rogan Kersh as the University’s new provost and professor of political science. A Wake Forest alumnus, Kersh currently serves as the associate dean of academic affairs and...
View ArticleWake Forest introduces Semester Online
Imagine enjoying the personal attention and academic rigor of one of Wake Forest’s 300-level classes while studying abroad in Australia or caring for a loved one at home. Today, this flexibility is one...
View ArticleTEDxWakeForestU: Defining our future
What will define our future? Will it be our ability to share through social media, our quest to use Google to escape memorization or the impact our consumer society will have on the environment? The...
View ArticleA second successful TEDxWakeForestU
Wait Chapel saw two big crowds on Saturday, February 23. The 1,250 or so people inside for TEDxWakeForestU: Defining Our Future and the hundred or so outside rolling the Quad after Wake Forest’s huge...
View ArticleAfter the Genome: Medicine, miracles, morality
A few years ago, the idea of 3-D printing a major body organ like a kidney was unthinkable, but now scientists eye North Carolina as a national hub for human organs partly due to regenerative medicine...
View ArticleWFU launches Pro Humanitate Institute
Since 1908, “Pro Humanitate” has been Wake Forest’s guiding principle. Today, “For Humanity” inspires Wake Foresters to seek ways to use their knowledge and skills to invest in each other, their lives...
View ArticlePicture-perfect pomp and circumstance
A crowd of almost 13,000 gathered Monday on Hearn Plaza to celebrate the accomplishments of nearly 1,900 graduates in Wake Forest University’s Class of 2016. Happy images of smiling, waving and...
View ArticleWFU embarks on new era as Wake Downtown classes begin in the Innovation Quarter
Wake Downtown classes begin Tuesday, Jan. 10, marking the beginning of an historic era for Wake Forest University as it moves undergraduate courses into Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in downtown...
View ArticleProvost will become president of Colorado College
Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch announced today that Jill Tiefenthaler will step down as provost to become the thirteenth president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Her resignation as...
View ArticleNicaragua Nexus
Thanks to donors Karyn and Tom Dingledine, a new learning center is available to students studying abroad in Nicaragua. The facility, dedicated in February, supports learning opportunities for...
View ArticleWake Forest appoints new provost
Wake Forest has appointed Rogan Kersh as the University’s new provost and professor of political science. A Wake Forest alumnus, Kersh currently serves as the associate dean of academic affairs and...
View ArticleWake Forest introduces Semester Online
Imagine enjoying the personal attention and academic rigor of one of Wake Forest’s 300-level classes while studying abroad in Australia or caring for a loved one at home. Today, this flexibility is one...
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