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Dec 10, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Kim McGrath |Cheryl V. Walker
Wake Forest University has received a transformational $30 million gift to expand the University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and enhance access and opportunities for undergraduate students in the academic program. The anonymous gift is one of the most significant in the University’s history.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
Wake Forest University School of Divinity has received a $3.3 million gift – the second largest individual donation in the school’s 25-year history – from the estate of Edward Kent Griffin. The gift will support the recently launched Wake Div Promise, a bold initiative designed to provide full-tuition scholarships for all graduate students enrolled in the Master of Divinity program. Read more here. Categories: Top Stories Wake Forest regularly appears in media outlets around the world.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
Today, Carter and Front Street Capital, in partnership with the City of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University, announced The Grounds — a transformative 100-acre mixed-use development in the area surrounding some of northwest North Carolina’s iconic major event venues. Seamlessly blending retail, dining, residential, and office in one vibrant community hub, The Grounds will enhance Winston-Salem’s landscape and bolster its reputation as a premier sports and entertainment destination.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
Wake Forest University celebrated a milestone in its commitment to supporting faculty, staff, and students with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the soon-to-open child care and early education facility at the University Corporate Center.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
A promising technology developed by Wake Forest University researchers and designed to address a common problem in treating critically ill patients with kidney issues has received a grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) to support next steps in research and development.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $15.6 million in Institutional Impact Grants to 24 projects among 29 colleges and universities seeking to undertake a substantial and sustained effort to educate character in undergraduate populations across their institutions. These three-year grants range from $100,000 to $1 million.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character will grant an additional $10 million to further help colleges and universities nationwide develop their own character education programs and initiatives. The funding comes from a new $12.4 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. which will also support coaching, resources, and workshops for faculty across the country. In 2023, Lilly Endowment Inc.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
By the end of the month, the U.S. Supreme Court must decide Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo, a case about commercial fishing and whether the federal government can compel the owners of commercial herring fishing vessels to pay for expert observers on their vessels. The case is about much more than fish, says Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability and an expert on environmental regulation.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Cheryl V. Walker
The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, has awarded 41 grants of up to $50,000 to institutions nationwide seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education.
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May 23, 2024 | 
news.wfu.edu | Kim McGrath |Cheryl V. Walker
At the installation service of Corey D. B. Walker as Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, President Susan R. Wente announced she has committed funding to support a new initiative on “Religion, Pluralism, and American Public Life” that will be based at the School of Divinity.
