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  • Wake Forest named one of America’s best large employers by Forbes

    Wake Forest University has been named one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 by Forbes, in partnership with market research firm Statista. The recognition places Wake Forest among 700 organizations nationwide…

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  • Founders Day 2026: Take a stroll through Wake Forest history

    Founders Day will take place on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in Wait Chapel. The celebration includes remarks from President Susan R. Wente, the annual senior oration, the presentation of…

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  • 2026 Commencement and Baccalaureate speakers announced

    Ballet dancer, author and founder Misty Copeland, who made history as the first Black woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, will deliver Wake Forest’s commencement address…

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  • David Carroll, physics

    Congratulations to professor David Carroll, whose proposal entitled “Graduate Research Fellowship Program” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and whose proposal entitled “PF-DT WOLED Development” has been funded…

  • Paul Pauca, computer science

    Congratulations to Paul Pauca, whose proposal entitled “Challenging Ocular Image Recognition (COIR)” has been funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Richard Williams, physics

    Congratulations to professor Richard Williams, whose proposal entitled “Quantifying recombination dynamics in Srl2:Eu2+ with material variations: mechanisms and scintillator optimization” was funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration and Fisk University.

  • Denise Franklin, WFDD

    Congratulations to Denise Franklin of WFDD, whose proposal entitled “NCME American Graduate Community Engagement Grant” has been funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Center for Media Engagement.

  • Christian Miller, philosophy

    Congratulations to Christian Miller, whose proposal entitled “The Character Project: additional funds request for psychology request for proposals” has been funded by the Templeton Foundation.

  • Freddie Salsbury, physics

    Congratulations to professor Freddie Salsbury, whose proposal entitled “Targeted approach to overcoming treatment resistance in advance prostate cancer” was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

  • WFDD wins national award

    WFDD won a second-place award from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) for an episode of Voices & Viewpoints that featured Wake Forest English lecturer Mary Martin Niepold, the founder of…

  • Frank Moore, mathematics

    Congratulations to Professor Frank Moore, whose proposal entitled “Intensive Workshop in 2012 for Macaulay2 Package Development” was funded by the National Security Agency (NSA).

  • Tony Marsh, Health and Exercise Science

    Congratulations to professor Anthony P. Marsh, whose proposal entitled “Gene Therapy in Canine Myotubular Myopathy” was funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Association Francaise Contre les Myopathies (AFM) and WFU…

  • Jerid Francom, Romance Languages

    Congratulations to professor Jerid Francom, whose proposal entitled “ACIV-ES: a novel Spanish-language corpus for linguistic and cultural comparisons between communities of the Hispanic world” was funded by the National Endowment for…