Pro Humanitate (for humanity) invites us to use our ideas, knowledge, talents and compassion on behalf of humanity in all its difference and diversity.
Our Winston-Salem, N.C., campus houses an academic community of almost 9,000 students, with more studying at Wake Forest locations in Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and around the world. Our undergraduate liberal arts curriculum inspires a holistic approach to preparing graduate and professional school students. We graduate leaders with integrity and courage who use their success to make an impact on society.
Wake Forest University and eight other colleges and universities in North Carolina and Pennsylvania are joining forces to bring an innovative, large-scale solar facility online in western Kentucky. The Sebree Solar II project, to be built near the town of Robards, Kentucky, will generate up to 150 megawatts of clean, renewable energy.
Every four years since 1963, Wake Forest students have chosen artwork for the University's Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art. On Friday, April 19, the 2024 Art Acquisitions Student Committee presented the artwork they’ve selected to add to the renowned collection.
As the CEO of Coded by Kids, Danae Tilghman Mobley (’06) is working to make tech careers available to more children and young adults.
Senior Showcase: Malachi Woodard (‘24)
It’s all about the journey and the experiences that carry you to your next destination. As our seniors journey Out of the Forest, they share some of their most meaningful lessons, memories and moments of self-discovery at Wake Forest.
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Apr 23
At Wake Forest, your faculty members will invite you to analyze, create and question in ways that will engage and inspire you inside and outside of the classroom.
The pursuit of scientific discovery can be as much about uncovering new truths about yourself as about entering the unknown physical world – discovering the discoverer – learning how you respond to new challenges, dead ends or unexpected finds.
When embarking on this journey, it helps to have the best tools and contexts available.
And that is precisely what undergraduate student Anusha Vora has found at Wake Forest University.
As an undergraduate, she is a research assistant, working on diabetes research at @wakeforestmed.
She has even been published as an author of a scientific abstract. It is rare for undergraduate students to receive acknowledgment on a paper of this significance, but at Wake Forest, Anusha is also actively participating in this advanced medical research.
We hope you’ll participate in these sorts of worldview-expanding experiences – ones that transition into lifelong learning.
Accepted students can take the first step toward enrollment by visiting the link in our profile.
#OurMottoMeansMore #ProHumanitate #WFU28
Apr 22
For 30 years Dr. Maya Angelou inspired generations of Wake Forest students to become better writers, thinkers and citizens. Through the annual #MayaAngelou Garden Party, we recently celebrated what would have been her 96th birthday with spoken word, poetry reading and dance. #WaketheArts
Apr 21
Wake Forest’s student art-buying trip is unique in higher education. Every four years since 1963, students have chosen artwork for the University. Four generations over six decades have created a premier collection of contemporary artworks – the Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art.
See the link in our profile to see which artworks were chosen.
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Apr 20
DESK stands for Developing Education through Student Knowledge. The goal of this annual service project is to provide desks to children in the Winston-Salem community who are in need of a workspace at home.
DESK began more than 20 years ago in partnership with Old Town Elementary after two WFU students Tierney Kraft (’04) and Elizabeth Eubank (’04) identified a lack of workspace in the homes of the children they were tutoring.
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Apr 19
At Wake Forest University, intellectual rigor will be at the heart of your whole-student education. Our faculty members are exceptional teacher-scholars dedicated to your personal growth.
Sarah Marmolejos conducts undergraduate research in @wakeengineering professor Dr. Lauren Lowman’s Environmental Dynamics lab.
The project is focused on creating a high-resolution gridded product for vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD is a variable widely used for representing the atmospheric demand for water. Climate change has led to a greater need for understanding what causes drought and how it affects us and our environment. VPD can be useful in helping us to understand how plants respond to drought; however, there are currently no large-scale, high-resolution gridded datasets for VPD. Dr. Lowman and Sarah’s research aims to develop a product that spans the United States.
This project introduced Sarah to computational modeling and fostered her research interests in climate change, extreme weather events, aerosols and particle physics. Sarah has presented on this project twice during Undergraduate Research Day at Wake Forest and once during the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. Last December, Sarah returned to AGU in San Francisco to give a poster presentation on her and Dr. Lowman’s updated results.
Accepted students can take the first step toward enrollment by visiting the link in our profile.
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Apr 17
At Wake Forest University, we are dedicated to creating research opportunities that enrich the lives of students and their communities.
Having grown up navigating the complexities of mixed-race identity, Emma Sullivan developed a passion for creating welcoming communities and a sense of belonging.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, Charlie Huebner attended public schools with fellow students from widely different backgrounds, which instilled in him a passion for showing that diversity need not divide us but can instead unite us.
At Wake Forest, Emma and Charlie both found an avenue to pursue their passions in the Principled Pluralism Fellowship, which is sponsored by @leadershipandcharacter and led by Dr. Bradley Burroughs, the Director of Leadership and Character in Academic, Civic, and Religious Life.
In a time marked by deepening social and political divisions, Dr. Burroughs and fellows like Emma and Charlie spend eight weeks each summer intensively researching the forces that divide us. But they seek not only to research principled pluralism but also to practice it by cultivating the skills and virtues – such as humility, empathy and courage – that can empower us to appreciate our differences while creating an inclusive community where everyone can feel like they belong.
Accepted students can take the first step toward enrollment by visiting the link in our profile.
#WFU28 #ProHumanitate #OurMottoMeansMore
Apr 14
Wake Forest is committed to meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need through grants, scholarships, work-study, and subsidized loans.
Within driving distance of both the Blue Ridge Mountains and Atlantic Coast, Winston-Salem offers the amenities of a larger city with the vibrant culture of an engaged community.
Get to know Wake Forest better by browsing a collection of quick facts, figures and rankings.
250+
is the number of student organizations that you can explore (or we’ll help you find a match) in order to discover your passion. Don’t find it? Apply to charter one!
11:1
is our student-to-faculty ratio. More than half of our undergraduate classes have fewer than 20 students. Only 1% have more than 50 students.
72+%
of undergraduates have an academic study-abroad experience, many of them in our academic-residential houses in London, Vienna and Venice.
Whether cheering or playing,
we all bleed Black and Gold
