On May 20, the Board of Trustees announced Peter Rodriguez will serve as the 15th president of Wake Forest University.

Former Governor Roy Cooper (D) will face off against President Donald Trump’s endorsee Michael Whatley (R) in November for ...

Like many universities founded in the American South, Wake Forest University has historical ties to slavery. In 2019, sociology professor Joseph Soares and his social theory class brought to the ...

Misty Copeland is a renowned ballet dancer, author and philanthropist who will deliver the 2026 Wake Forest University commencement speech on May 18. Copeland was the first African American principal ...

In her first year seminar, Grace Bauer walked in as a freshman and walked out as Marcus Tullius Cicero. In the class, called “Beware the Ides, Beware the Hemlock: Roleplaying Crisis in Ancient Greece ...

The 2026-2027 Face to Face Speaker Forum will host Cynthia Erivo, Ken Burns, Michael Schur, José Andrés and a final speaker who is yet to be announced. Every year, Face to Face Speaker Forum brings ...

Anne Jones grew up wanting to be an artist, dreaming of combining her love of literature with the artistic world. She came into Wake Forest intending to pursue an environmental studies major and an ...

Emily Lawrence is a Chinese Language and Culture major from Miami, Fla., who has studied Chinese since the first grade. Even though Chinese was always an integral part of Lawrence’s academic career, ...

As a pre-med student, Jada Okereke never expected to find herself majoring in women’s, gender and sexuality studies (WGS) alongside biology. But after taking her first WGS class to fulfill a ...

Liza Hunter grew up wanting to be a Tar Heel like her parents, but decided to apply Early Decision to Wake Forest after she fell in love with the campus on her tour. She pivoted again when picking a ...

Theo Berson is a distinguished communication major with minors in marketing and entrepreneurship from Avon, Conn. Berson knew even before coming to Wake Forest that he wanted to study communication.