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  • Staff Advisory Council meeting dates and times announced for 2026-2027

    Staff are encouraged to mark their calendars and plan to join us for this year’s Staff Advisory Council meetings. Based on feedback from staff, we are piloting a return to in-person…

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  • Paula Gentius to Step Down from Board Secretary Role

    Paula Gentius will step down from her roles as Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Director of the Board Office. She will continue in her current role through the October…

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  • Peter Rodriguez

    A message from President Peter Rodriguez on his first day

    Today marks the official first day for Dr. Peter Rodriguez as the 15th president of Wake Forest University. In a message sent to the campus community, Dr. Rodriguez shared his excitement…

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  • Librarian Yu passes away

    Cristina Yu, 52, died Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. Yu worked as a librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library for 22 years, and she was…

  • Lockhart, Adair are Employees of the Year

    At the Staff Awards Luncheon in October, Sheila Lockhart and Scott Adair were named Employees of the Year. Lockhart is the administrative assistant in the Department of Religion. Adair is the…

  • Proposals funded: Miller, Katula

    Congratulations to Gary Miller, professor of Health & Exercise Science, whose proposal entitled “Intentional Weight Reduction and Physical and Cognitive Function” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…

  • Words have power

    In response to an incident that occurred early Monday morning involving hateful language written on the doors of six fraternity lounges, President Nathan Hatch says, “We are a community that values…

  • Brown elected president of N.C. Library Association

    Wanda Brown, associate dean at Z. Smith Reynolds Library, was inducted as president of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) at its October Biennial Conference in Hickory, N.C. Wanda graduated from…

  • ZSR Library promotes Tedford, Smith

    In August, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library promoted Rosalind (Roz) Tedford to Director of Research and Instruction and Susan Sharpless Smith to Associate Dean. Tedford graduated from Wake Forest in 1991…

  • Retired professor Allen Mandelbaum dies

    Professor Emeritus Allen Mandelbaum, a preeminent scholar of classical and Italian literature who was widely recognized as the world’s leading translator of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” died Oct. 27 in Winston-Salem. He…

  • Update from Dept. of Communication

    Jarrod Atchison presented “Defending Decisions — Conspiracy Theories and Water Utilities” to the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies in Newport, RI, on Oct. 17. Michael Hyde and co-author Nancy King published…

  • Proposals funded: Fulp, Lawlor

    Congratulations to Errin Fulp, associate professor of Computer Science, whose proposal entitled “Modeling Mobile Agent Populations and Movement for CEDS” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the…

  • Sign up for the Artisans’ Fair by Nov. 18

    Are you gifted in woodworking, arts, crafts, etc., and wish to share/show your handmade products with other Wake Foresters? Plans are being made for the seventh annual Artisans’ Fair to be…