Seventeen years after four-year-old Mary Scott Haynie was the Homecoming poster child, she’s entering her senior year at Wake Forest.

A local high school student who died after a football injury has inspired an incoming first-year student at Wake Forest.

“I had to help. I had to help. It was a no-brainer.”

What’s the meaning of that ‘P’? It’s our way of recognizing parents.

It’s tough keeping up with anyone in Wake Forest’s prestigious semester-in-D.C. program — particularly Aubrey Vaughan and her fast-paced footsteps. This spring, the junior political science major is in the midst of the juggling act otherwise known as WAKE Washington. Vaughan, from rural Versailles, Ky., spends most of her days working at a full-time internship where she creates civics education materials and does media outreach for nonprofit Rock the Vote.

FORTY YEARS after the movie “Brian’s Song” put Wake Forest in the national spotlight, a film that opened this spring also combines football and adversity, and it presents the close-knit community of Demon Deacons. “The 5th Quarter” features the 2006 Wake Forest football season — when the Deacs were predicted to be in last place but ended up ACC Champions — as a backdrop for a more personal story. Defensive player Jon Abbate (’10) lost his younger brother Luke in an auto accident at home in Marietta, Ga., before the season began.

Sound designer Stowe Nelson (’08) has an ear for what theatregoers hear.

Alumnus Al Hunt and his wife, Judy Woodruff, headline Voices of Our Time event.

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Mike and Mary Flynn Farrell’s historic gift honors their family’s past and the University’s future.