There are busy summers, and then there are summers like Emily Giffin (’94, P ’30) had this year. Her youngest child graduated high school in May, and her twin sons graduated from Columbia University the same month. Her 13th novel, “Love […]
Jump to the bottom of this story for details on how you can see the Flash Point exhibit and other on-campus art and history exhibits this fall. In the summer of 1962, University of Chicago student Danny Lyon packed his camera and hitchhiked south. […]
Wake Forest is welcoming about 100 children of alumni to the Class of 2030 this August, including four who have two Deacs as parents. They are arriving from such farflung spots as northern California, Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida. Balloon towers, cheering RAs and marching […]
It’s back-to-school shopping season, and Anna Anstey (’26) is helping students turn cast-offs into dorm-room essentials. Through her fledgling business, Campus Reclaimed, students and alumni can donate or consign gently used items to give them a second life. Shortly before graduating in […]
In 2015, when Winston-Salem’s seminal rock group, the “5” Royales, was inducted in Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Winston-Salem’s mayor and city council were inspired to create a local “Arts, Culture & Entertainment Memorial Walk of Fame” to recognize local individuals who made […]
This story is part of Living Proof, a series of profiles of alumni who got to Wake Forest on scholarships and are now giving back in their professions and communities. Cy Fogleman (’18) grew up in unincorporated Union Cross, North Carolina, only 15 miles […]
This story is part of Living Proof, a series of profiles of alumni who got to Wake Forest on scholarships and are now giving back in their professions and communities. Bryson Rominger (’15) grew up in tiny Granite Falls, North Carolina, northwest of Hickory, […]
This story is part of Living Proof, a series of profiles of alumni who got to Wake Forest on scholarships and are now giving back in their professions and communities. Marybeth Torbet Hays (’90, MBA ’94) is in her element in the sunny living […]
This story is part of Living Proof, a series of profiles of alumni who got to Wake Forest on scholarships and are now giving back in their professions and communities. Growing up in Asheboro, North Carolina, Robert Cox (’09) says that Wake Forest “was […]
This story is part of Living Proof, a series of profiles of alumni who got to Wake Forest on scholarships, and are now giving back in their professions and communities. Read more Alex White (’22) came to Wake Forest for the first time […]
This story is part of America From the Forest, Wake Forest Magazine’s series marking America’s 250th anniversary. If you are looking to round out your reading list for this semiquincentennial summer, English Professor Jennifer Greiman has you covered. For her first year seminar, American Democracy […]
This story is part of America From the Forest, Wake Forest Magazine’s series marking America’s 250th anniversary. Publishing in the 21st century is a nearly frictionless endeavor. Many of us, with varying degrees of success, write and disseminate our ideas with no oversight or restriction […]
June is the month for weddings: attending them, getting inspired by them and planning them. So on the June 12 episode of the Wake Women podcast, I spoke to three seasoned wedding planners, all Wake Forest alums, about all things weddings.
When it was announced that the German National Team would make the Graylyn Estate on the Wake Forest campus its home base for the 2026 World Cup, the soccer communities around Winston-Salem were elated — but also a little perplexed. Of all the places on […]
We drove up the western coast from Galway, my sons Dylan and Roan and I, to arrive in the maze of wind-blown, winding streets that comprise Sligo, Ireland. It was 4 p.m., when darkness descends in late November, and we had no time to lose. […]
The Program for Leadership and Character’s Michael Lamb delivered a pair of lectures last October laying out the case for character in our public and political lives based on what the founders taught us about keeping our republic. Wake Forest Magazine is publishing this abridged […]
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Wake Forest Magazine is sharing it as part of America From the Forest, our series marking America’s 250th anniversary. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, debates […]
Many magazine readers will be familiar by now with the North Carolina Gateway to Wake Forest. The basics: Starting this fall, students who enroll at Wake Forest from North Carolina with typical assets and with household incomes of $100,000 to $200,000 can expect their financial aid […]