Deacs in Love: 2023

by Katherine Laws ('20)

Fate brings romance to life for many Wake Forest couples.

Thriving on Disruption

by Carol L. Hanner

Leadership expert David Styers (’92) collaborates to help with a book series on making the most of constant change, after a crash course in helping orchestras adjust during the pandemic.

Finding Answers in the Past

by Katherine Laws ('20)

Laura Malone Elliott (’79) offers young people connections and inspiration in her historical novels that can help them navigate the world today.

Seeing Success in Others

by Carol L. Hanner

Maria Toler Velissaris (’02) , who stretched her entrepreneurial wings building a new company as a Wake Forest junior, has soared as a lauded venture capitalist in women’s health care.

Champion of the Liberal Arts

by Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt ('79, MBA '87), Guest Contributor

Provost Rogan Kersh ('86) represents "the very best of Wake Forest."

Fun for Real

by Rafael Lima ('21), Guest Contributor

They played fantasy football in college. Now it’s their business.

DJs in the House

by Carol L. Hanner

John Barry (’14) builds a successful music industry career, despite a pandemic, with a booking agency for the booming niche of electronic dance festivals.

What Came After

by Students:

Katie Fox, Mary Caroline Funk, Kgosi Hughes, Caroline Kernell, Greyson Lehman & Jacob Thomas

Amid Pandemics

by Kerry M. King ('85)

Virologist and Teaching Professor of Biology Pat Lord (Ph.D. ’86) pursues a quest for students to become 'biology literate.'

A Leader of Character

by Elaine A. Tooley

Embracing values, tradition and innovation, retiring President Nathan O. Hatch challenged his team and Wake Foresters to make history.

HATCH YEARS: Timeline of his tenure

by Staff

Nathan Hatch & Me

by Friends and colleagues

Undaunted: Karen Baynes-Dunning

by Maria Henson

Karen Baynes-Dunning (’89) infuses arduous work for social justice and children’s progress with lessons from wondrous family lore and the late Maya Angelou.

Coping in the Pandemic

by Photographer Ken Bennett

Students, faculty and staff adjust to the challenges of a fall semester unlike any other.

Constant & True: Sophie Hollis (’19)

by Sophie Hollis ('19)

A young grad learns about isolation and reaching out in a pandemic

Iron Will

by Carol L. Hanner

The late Martha Mason (’60), who survived six decades in an iron lung, and an alumna filmmaker inspire a Deacon mother and her retirement community.

Where We Were

by Nathan O. Hatch

Where were you when the world changed? How did it change you? President Hatch reflects on the unique challenges of 2020.

Saving the ‘Impossible City’

by Kerry M. King ('85)

As the waters rose in Venice and a pandemic followed, Melissa Conn (’87, P ’22) went to work to preserve the past and ensure the future of her adopted Italian home.