A Funny Thing Happened to Bret Raybould
Alumnus doggedly pursues a career in comedy, and he’s making it happen.
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And the Answer Is …
Quiz Bowl brings alumni together online for not-so-trivial pursuit of fun and socializing.
Read More100 Faces in 100 Days
An alumna who specializes in painting portraits raises $13,000 for the COVID-19 response by Wake Forest Baptist Health.
Read MoreA Century of Female Voters
Wake Forest alumna helps launch a newsroom named for the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women voting rights in 1920.
Read MoreDazzling Display
Recent graduate Connor deMayo captures art, science and celestial history with a photo and video of Comet Neowise.
Read MoreCooking with Love and Beauty
Chef and culinary stylist Ashton Keefe (’09) pivots in the pandemic.
Read MorePhilanthropy: ‘Sending the Ladder Back Down’
A scholarship winner himself, Bill Wells (’74) is retiring as Wake Forest's longtime director of financial aid, having put philanthropic dollars to work for worthy students.
Read MoreRockin’ with Song Dogs
Chris Mowry (’82), lead singer for The Shakes band in his campus days, focuses as a biologist on the mysteries of coyotes.
Read MoreGood People Helping Good People
A chain reaction of bravery, chance connections and support among Wake Forest colleagues leads to a kidney transplant and transformed lives.
Read MoreFor the Love of New Ideas
Zach Klein (’04) follows his passions, from co-founding Vimeo and DIY.org to sharing woodsy architecture in Cabin Porn books to a dream job as CEO of Dwell magazine.
Read MoreOn Art and the Heart: My London Story
An alumna shares her fresh perspectives after touring museums in her adopted home city abroad with new Deacon friends.
Read MoreTransmuting Trauma
How two wars and a brutal attack led the son of Baptist missionaries to help others with fear and pain.
Read MoreA Call to the Stage
Hillary Heard Baack (’02) thrives in film and on stage with an outsider’s acute observing of human nature and stories.
Read MoreStorytelling for Peace
Lindsay McClure Miller (’07) and her photographer husband open new digital worlds for students to share culture internationally
Read MoreAn Unforgettable Friendship
Over nearly 30 years, two poets with Wake Forest in common at turns argued, blundered and treated each other with kindness.
Read MoreA Global Lens
Inspired by his Deacon-rich family, David B. Young (’90) runs a company that teaches K-12 students to see the wider world.
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