Dear members of the campus community, With the spring semester starting this week, new ideas to pursue, new questions to ask, and new opportunities to learn extend before us. In this way, each semester offers us a chance to embrace new beginnings, with boundless possibilities. […]
Categories: Emails
Wishing you a holiday season filled with peace, hope and joy. All the best in 2024 to our Wake Forest family,President Susan R. Wente and Dr. Chris Hardy
Categories: Emails
As the days get shorter, colder, and darker, our natural tendency as humans is to seek warmth, light, and comfort in the company of others. Our impulse to gather and to light up the darkness is on full display during this festive season at Wake […]
Categories: From Wente's Desk
[Delivered Thursday, Nov. 16; Remarks as prepared] Good afternoon! Please join me in a round of applause for our musicians and singers. Stephanie, thank you so much for opening our program. I appreciate your leadership and service as president of the Staff Advisory Council. And, […]
Categories: Speeches
At Wake Forest, our motto invites each of us to stand with and for humanity. Whether through research, teaching, community service, or institutional initiatives, how we respond to this call shows up in countless ways on campus — and makes me proud to lead this […]
Categories: From Wente's Desk
President Wente walks and talks with Henslee about her cell research and her collaborations across departments and schools. They discuss the importance of the “liberal arts engineer” at Wake Forest and Henslee’s belief in both the philosophy of yes and the fearless pursuit of knowledge.
Categories: Walk with Wente
President Wente walks and talks with Robinson about his work at the intersection of technology and law. They discuss the ability for lawyers to help in the design process, why radical collaboration is so important and a potentially positive impact of AI.
Categories: Walk with Wente
(Updated Oct. 16, 2023)Whether in times of joy, trepidation, or sorrow, people – students, alumni, parents, community members, and others – look to trusted institutions like universities to demonstrate care, reason, ethical leadership, and a measure of stability when crises threaten to destabilize us. At […]
Categories: From Wente's Desk
President Wente walks and talks with Waugh about his work in using positive emotions to regulate stress. They discuss the impact of major events, like 9/11 and COVID, on his work, plus his enthusiasm for doing research with his students and then taking that research to the public.
Categories: Walk with Wente
President Wente walks and talks with Beavers about her work in preventative health, her passion for being a mentor and other topics.
Categories: Walk with Wente