Matt Imboden, chief student and academic services officer at Wake Forest University School of Business, has been named the 2025 Outstanding Administrator in Graduate & Professional Student Services during an award presentation at the 2025 NASPA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. The honor is awarded […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition
Wake Forest has been named a Voter Friendly Campus for the 2025-26 time period by the Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA. The initiative recognizes institutions that have planned and implemented practices that encourage their students to register and vote. The mission of […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Campus Life
The Program for Leadership and Character is pleased to announce the opening of four financial support opportunities available to WFU faculty and staff each spring. These grants and stipends are funded by gifts from Lilly Endowment Inc. and the Kern Family Foundation. The deadline to apply (with […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Leadership & Character, Research & Discovery
Congratulations to the following Wake Forest faculty and staff members whose proposals were funded in Feb. 2025.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
PubWest, the leading association of small and medium-sized book publishers, recognized Wake Forest University Press in its 2024 Book Design Awards. The recent WFU Press title Lunulae by Doireann Ní Ghríofa placed in two categories—earning silver in the Short Stories / Poetry / Anthologies category […]
Categories: Arts & Culture, Awards & Recognition, University Announcements
WFU was recently ranked No. 55 on Forbes’ 2025 Best Midsize Employers list. The University was one of three mid-sized employers recognized from the state of North Carolina. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to survey 217,000-plus employees working at companies within the […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition
Thrive at Wake Forest represents our shared commitment to the health and wellbeing of our community. The Thrive Dimension Champion Awards honor faculty and staff who exemplify leadership and dedication to one or more of the Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing — social, financial, […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Campus Life, Wellbeing
The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) has awarded the 2024 Best Book in Pedagogy to Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars by Elena Pedigo Clark, associate professor of German and Russian. AATSEEL praises Clark’s work […]
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Research & Discovery
Nominations are now open for the 12th annual Champions of Change campus sustainability awards. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate themselves and others as a leader of the sustainability transformation on campus before the deadline on February 28. The Office […]
New this year, the Office of Civic & Community Engagement and the Office of Student Engagement have combined the OCCE Service Awards and SOAR Awards to create the Student Impact Awards– a unified celebration of leadership, service, and engagement both on campus and in the greater Winston-Salem community.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Campus Life, Community Impact