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Wake Forest University recently announced adding Alertus Desktop to its emergency communication tools. Alertus Desktop is a mass notification desktop alert software that immediately grabs attention with a full-screen desktop pop-up alert.  The University’s spring emergency testing plan for Tuesday, Feb. 27, included testing […]

Did you know that studio-quality headshots are available for free to Wake Forest faculty and staff? Appointments with the University photographer, Lyndsie Schlink, are now available for Wednesday, March 6. Please use this appointment calendar link to select a timeslot. Your headshot is […]

After a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, Wake Forest University has selected KinderCare Learning Companies for Employers to operate a child care and early education center in the University Corporate Center (UCC). The center, “KinderCare at Wake Forest University,” is projected to open […]

A message from WFU Communications and External Relations Bottom Line, Up Front: Emergency testing will include a new feature – a full-screen desktop pop-up alert – on faculty and staff computers on the Wake Forest network or VPN. This is a reminder that tests of […]

After 25 years of dedicated and exemplary service to the Wake Forest community, Tim Auman will retire as university chaplain effective June 30, 2024. The Wake Forest Community is invited to celebrate Chaplain Tim Auman on Monday, Apr. 22, from 3-5 p.m. in the Green […]

One of the nation’s top health leaders, Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address on Monday, May 20. The ceremony will take place on Hearn Plaza and begins at 9 a.m. Dr. Cohen is the Director for the Centers for […]

Wake Forest stakeholders in CER, Procurement, the LGBTQ+ Center, and the IS Technology Accessibility team have partnered to bring new options to enhance the inclusivity of WFU business cards. Through Allegra, our stationery supply partner, Wake Forest staff and faculty can now […]

Wake Forest’s Healthy Exercise and Lifestyle ProgramS (HELPS) is now accepting applications for the 2024 spring semester “HWFU” program.  Healthy Weight for You is a six-month program offered to full-time, permanent Wake Forest University employees free of charge. The program is designed to assist and […]

“If All the World and Love Were Young,” originally published in the UK by Penguin in 2019, was hailed by The Times as “a debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney.” It went on to win the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, as well […]

Former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney and Jon Meacham, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be on campus for two Face to Face Speaker Series events on Thursday, Feb. 22 – a student-led conversation and the keynote event. Tickets sold out early in the season […]