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 […]
The day Wake Forest felt real for me came a few weeks after I was accepted, when I noticed an unassuming white envelope on the kitchen island. My hands shook as I opened the financial aid offer. I did the math, and a wave of […]
Throughout Susan R. Wente’s tenure as Wake Forest’s 14th president, she has kept the University’s focus on increasing access and opportunity for students with financial need. It started with her inaugural address, when she rolled out the For Humanity scholarship initiative, raising more […]
Last September, Wake Forest made a life-changing promise: free tuition for North Carolina students whose families make less than $200,000 a year and have typical assets. An avalanche of response followed. Proud alumni praised their alma mater through email and social media, enthusiastically […]
Medallion of Merit winners The Medallion of Merit, the University’s highest honor, was awarded on Founders Day to Dr. J. Wayne Meredith (MD ’78) and Dr. Julie A. Freischlag, two trailblazing physicians who transformed healthcare in North Carolina and raised Wake Forest’s profile as a […]
Wake Forest sent the Class of 2026 into its next chapter with a unified challenge: To cultivate the same sense of belonging they felt here as they become leaders in the world. Joseph Vargas (’26) grew up in Winston-Salem and had 14 family members attending […]
The Rev. Eugene Cho, in his Wake Forest Baccalaureate address on Sunday, called on participants to resist cynicism even as they enter adulthood in an era marked by “profound challenges and exhaustion in our world” resulting from wars, polarization, economic anxiety, institutional distrust and the […]
The 12-year-old weighed more than 300 pounds by the time Dr. Joseph “Joey” Skelton (MS ’10, P ’28), then a resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin, was assigned the patient. Other doctors had tried to help the boy and his family, but nobody had […]
The University welcomed a beloved author of books for younger readers into the Wake Forest Writers Hall of Fame on Feb. 21 during a daylong celebration of writers, writing and remembrance. WordsAwake5! featured panels of Wake Forest literati discussing the current state of publishing, […]
As the sun shined brightly on the Quad one spring day in 2019, Ethan Haber (’21) couldn’t resist taking his pet hamster outside. As he watched “Mooksie” roll around in an exercise ball, he noticed a woman walking her dog near the University Bookstore. Suddenly, […]
Do you remember that week in the fall semester when everything comes together? We captured it in September. Life on campus was in full swing, with business students spellbound by a standing-room-only lecture on character. Law students prepped for a “Love Island” mock trial. Engineering […]
The only thing missing from students’ schedules on Sunday? Classes. At noon, the field hockey team trounces Boston College 2-1 in Kentner Stadium. Next door, hikers returning from an Outdoor Pursuits backpacking trip to the mountains spill out of a van to air out their […]
09/22/25 10:47am A football coach and a professor walk into a barbershop. This is not a joke. 09/22/25 8:30am In his first year, Head Football Coach Jake Dickert has become a regular, swinging by the campus barbershop on a Monday last September for a trim […]