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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, has been located north of downtown Winston-Salem since the university moved there in 1956.

Former names

Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute
(1834–1839)
Wake Forest College
(1839–1967)

Pro Humanitate (Latin)

"For Humanity"[1]

Private research university

February 3, 1834 (1834-02-03)

Baptist State Convention of North Carolina

SACS

Nonsectarian
Baptist (historically until 1986)[2]

$1.86 billion (2021) [3]

Susan Wente

Michele Gillespie

6,667 (includes full- time faculty and staff)[4]

8,963 (Fall 2022)[5]

5,447 (Fall 2022)[5]

3,516 (Fall 2022)[5]

Winston-Salem
,
North Carolina
,
United States

36°08′02″N 80°16′34″W / 36.134°N 80.276°W / 36.134; -80.276

Midsize City,[6], 340 acres (140 ha)

Old Gold & Black

Old gold and black[7]
   

Demon Deacons

NCAA Division I FBS – ACC

The Demon Deacon

www.wfu.edu

WFU's undergraduate and graduate colleges and schools include Wake Forest University School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Wake Forest University School of Business, Wake Forest Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine.[8] Students can participate in over 250 student clubs and organizations including fraternities and sororities, intramural sports, a student newspaper and a radio station.[9] The university is classified among "R-2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity".[10]


Wake Forest University Athletic teams are known as the Demon Deacons and compete in sixteen NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports. Wake Forest is also a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.[11]

Undergraduate admissions statistics

20%

(Neutral decrease −4.2)

37.0%

(Increase +4.11)

1300–1460

(Steady same median)

30–33

(Increase +1.5 median)

118–144

74

47

70

64

501–600

701–710

401–500

463

the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is considered a national pioneer in organ growth. His work has been lauded as the No. 1 Science Story of the Year by Discover Magazine in 2007 and the fifth-biggest breakthrough in medicine for 2011 by Time.[92]

Anthony Atala

professor of physics and director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, is known for his research in nanoengineered cancer therapies, green technology,[93] photovoltaics and lighting innovations.[94]

David Carroll

Presidential Endowed Professor of Politics and International Affairs, former host of the eponymous MSNBC current affairs and political commentary television program and current host of The Takeaway and Editor-at-Large of ELLE.com.[95][96]

Melissa Harris-Perry

Former President is a nationally known religious historian. His book, The Democratization of American Christianity, was named one of the "Five Best: Books on Religion in Politics" by the Wall Street Journal.[97] He also served as the chair of the NCAA Division I Board.[98]

Nathan O. Hatch

professor of art and printmaking, is a nationally recognized printmaker whose works are housed permanently at five of the country's leading museums.

David Faber

Author and civil rights activist , Reynolds Professor of American Studies, taught at the university from 1982 until her death in 2014. Among her many awards, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010.[99]

Maya Angelou

Psychologist , researcher on the effects of shared parenting and on father–daughter relationships.

Linda Nielsen

South Campus (First Year Student Housing): Babcock Hall, Bostwick Hall, Johnson Hall, Luter Hall, Collins Hall, South Hall, Angelou Hall

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Quad Area (Upperclass Student Housing): Kitchin Hall, Davis Hall, Poteat/Huffman Halls, Taylor/Efird Halls

North Area (Upperclass Student Housing): Magnolia Hall, Dogwood Hall, Polo Hall, Martin Hall, Palmer Hall, Piccolo Hall, North Campus Apartments, Student Apartments, Polo Road houses area.

WAKE Radio was founded by a student group in 1985 after terminated a long-standing position of student broadcast assistants.[219][220] The organization currently maintains an Internet radio station that broadcasts shows ranging from political and sports talk to indie music.

WFDD

The Student was founded in 2004 and is a website created and run by students to help integrate the student body with academic activities and social events around campus and the Winston-Salem area.

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The (OGB) is Wake Forest University's weekly school newspaper. The paper takes its name from the university's official colors. It was established in 1916 and has been produced by a group of student editors, reporters and photographers every year since then. Notable alumni include Al Hunt, current managing editor for Bloomberg News in Washington DC, W. J. Cash who authored The Mind of the South, and Wayne King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of The 12th Street Riot in Detroit in 1967.[222]

Old Gold & Black

Wake Forest Review is an independent student newspaper providing news and commentary "from a libertarian and conservative perspective."

[223]

Wake TV is the university television channel. It features weekly television content like Wake TV News and Entertainment Wakely. Past students have also collaborated with to create media packages featuring Wake Forest athletes.

ESPNU

The Howler is the annual yearbook.

3 to 4 Ounces is the official literary magazine on campus, publishing a collection of student prose, poetry and art through a blind application process each semester. It is also the longest-running media outlet on campus, as it began in 1882 as The Student when the school was still known as Wake Forest College.

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Japanese student Konsukie Akiyama became the first Asian graduate in 1909.

The first women undergraduates were admitted in 1942.

James G. Jones became the first American Indian graduate in 1958. He was from the .[258]

Lumbe nation

On February 23, 1960, ten Wake Forest students joined eleven students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College (present-day ) for a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Winston-Salem.[259] The students' non-violent protest, along with other protests in Winston-Salem, led to the desegregation of the city's restaurants and lunch counters on May 23 of that year.

Winston-Salem State University

spoke in Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest campus on October 11, 1962.[260]

Martin Luther King Jr.

Herman Eure (biology) and Dolly McPherson (English) became the first black tenure-track professors in 1974.

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The Office of Minority Affairs was formed in 1978 and later became the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Wake Forest also added an Office of Diversity & Inclusion, an LGBTQ Center, and a Women's Center.[263]

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In 1982, poet/actress/author was hired as Reynolds Professor of American Studies.[264]

Maya Angelou

In 2002, Wake Forest added a cultural diversity requirement to its curriculum, mandating all undergraduates take one of 74 courses to educate them on cultural diversity.

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Wake Forest appointed its first (part-time) Muslim chaplain in 2010. In 2011, the first associate chaplain for Jewish Life was named.[267]

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actor[277]

Marc Blucas

NBA player[278]

Muggsy Bogues

United States Senator[279]

Richard Burr

creator of The Sopranos[280]

David Chase

First Lady of North Carolina

Mary P. Easley

actor

Carroll O'Connor

mayor of Madison, North Carolina, and lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army

J. P. Carter

US House of Representatives of Florida's 13th district[281]

Charlie Crist

television producer,[282] entertainment industry executive and Rising Star Award recipient

James DuBose

NBA player[283]

Tim Duncan

former governor, Maryland (Wake Forest law school graduate, Princeton alumnus)

Bob Ehrlich

co-founder and chairman of EchoStar and Dish Network[284]

Charlie Ergen

former US Senator, D-NC (a graduate of Florida State University and Wake Forest Law School)[285]

Kay Hagan

economics advisor to the Biden Administration[286]

Jennifer M. Harris

journalist[287]

Melissa Harris-Perry

U.S. Senator

Jesse Helms

(Wake Forest Law School graduate), Miss USA 2019[288]

Cheslie Kryst

president of Roanoke College. Undergraduate degree in history and master's degree in counselor education from WFU[289]

Michael Maxey

professional golfer[290]

Arnold Palmer

NBA player[291]

Chris Paul

American football player[292]

Brian Piccolo

first black graduate of the school[293]

Ed Reynolds

Indian actor and businessman

Aravind Swamy

former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs[294]

Robert Wilkie

Wake Forest has over 72,000 living alumni, with 39% living in North Carolina and others residing in 97 foreign countries.[270] Alumni include 15 Rhodes Scholars,[271] including 13 since 1986,[272] four Marshall Scholars,[273] 15 Truman Scholars[274] and 62 Fulbright recipients since 1993.[275] According to the National Science Foundation, Wake Forest spent $191 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 117th in the nation.[276]

A Union In Wait

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The 5th Quarter

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The Longest Ride

Wake Forest Baptist Church

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Official website

Wake Forest Athletics website