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Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Provost
Categories: University AnnouncementsPresident 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. Senior Associate Dean Anthony Marsh will serve as Interim Dean of the College, effective July 1, […]
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Community Safety Advisory: Airsoft guns
Categories: University AnnouncementsUniversity Police are investigating reports by two students who were hit with pellets from airsoft guns in separate incidents. Airsoft guns are toy guns used in airsoft sports that shoot non-lethal, plastic pellets. Both reports occurred this week, one near North Campus Apartments and one […]
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From Her Hand: Sally Wait’s Mission South
In June of 1993, a stamp dealer from Locust, N.C., contacted Wake Forest University with a sheath of letters, documents and journals to sell. The documents were in the possession of a caretaker who had received them upon the death of the youngest daughter of […]
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WFU religion professor Simeon Ilesanmi to speak on human dignity
Categories: University AnnouncementsThe 22nd Annual Hubert McNeill Poteat Lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 6 at 4 p.m. in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium. Simeon Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, will speak on “Human Dignity in the Age of Disrespect.” […]
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David Hagy to conduct his final WFU musical, “She Loves Me”
Categories: University AnnouncementsWake Forest University Theatre will close its 2021-2022 season with the musical “She Loves Me,” directed by theatre professor J.K. Curry. Retiring Music Director David Hagy is conducting the production. This will be his final musical after 26 years at Wake Forest. “She Loves Me” […]
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Wake Forest hosts day of service during inauguration week
Categories: University AnnouncementsWake Forest University students, faculty, staff and alumni volunteered at “kit-packing” events on March 23 in a day of service that coincided with the upcoming presidential inauguration and will benefit local schoolchildren and homeless women. Around 9 a.m in room 410 in Benson University Center, […]
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2022 THRIVE Dimension Champion nominations close 3/28
Categories: University AnnouncementsA guest post from Wake Forest’s Office of Wellbeing Faculty and staff members have gone above and beyond expectations this past year. It’s time for recognition! The THRIVE Dimension Champion Awards are a time to identify and recognize Wake Forest faculty and staff for their […]
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Special Face to Face Speaker Forum tonight
Categories: University AnnouncementsA guest post from the Office of Communications and External Relations Join us in Wait Chapel at 6:30 p.m. as Larry Culp (P ’17, P ’19, P ’23), University Trustee and CEO of GE, and Gene Woods, CEO of Atrium Health, discuss radical collaboration in […]
