Our Greatest Tradition: The bonds between facultyand students By Rob Daniels Millie, the wonderfully playful 9-month-old Goldendoodle, jumps into the lap of her mom, Allie Kleinman Lowe (’17). Millie has heard the name of Mary Dalton spoken over the computer, and she knows what that […]
Bonding AroundBeakers By Michael Terry (’06) Christa Colyer loved being a student. “Mrs. Knight, my high school chemistry teacher, always had her classroom open after school,” she remembers. That room was a special space where students found themselves hanging out and studying together in community. […]
JJ Martinez (MSM ’25) never imagined himself at Wake Forest. So, when he received the Wells Fargo Inclusive Excellence Scholarship at the School of Business, it felt surreal. Arriving on campus with his family and friends, JJ was teary-eyed, gazing at manicured lawns and fire […]
When WordsMatter By Rob Daniels Meredith Prince (’25) had given no thought to a Spanish equivalent of the geographical-linguistic “soda” vs. “pop” divide when one of her professors, Dr. César Gutiérrez, got in touch in January 2024. “He reached out and said, ‘Are you interested […]
The call of Pro Humanitate – to be a catalyst for good in society – means being willing to enter some of the darkest corners of humanity. Confronting complex issues and working to create solutions to complicated problems implies an element of messiness. Perhaps that […]
On October 14, 2022, an estimated 3.4 million viewers tuned into ABC’s “Shark Tank,” to see what new ideas burgeoning entrepreneurs were pitching to experienced potential investors. That night, the audience watched two young Wake Foresters – Sam Chason (’20) and Matt Gronberg (’20) – […]
Somewhere over a dockside dinner in the glow of a Bahamian sunset, it hit them: Maybe the best educational experiences happen when everybody’s a teacher, everybody’s a student and learning doesn’t have to pause to ask for directions. Professor Dan Cohen liked the idea of […]
Sule James is guiding his students toward a deeper understanding of humanity through art. As a teacher-scholar postdoctoral fellow in the department of art, he educates his students from the variety of perspectives that inform his work. His emphasis as a postdoc remains on teaching, […]
Every year, Wake Forest undergraduates have the opportunity to spend their summer months with a faculty mentor researching and making advances on some of the most challenging questions of our day. This summer, they studied the droughts and wildfires that have plagued parts of the […]
On the northside of Wake Forest’s campus, red clay was piled high, bulldozers hummed along the horizon and hammers beat out an unscripted, yet syncopated, rhythm. Jim Parham, the general contractor and overall conductor of this symphony, was preparing for the question that he received […]