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Let It Snow

As you have probably heard from your students, we had a snow day yesterday. Despite a prediction of 1-3″, we got a whopping 6.5″ of snow at my house, and I am only 3 miles from campus so I assume it was the same there. […]


Lots of energy

The students are back, and there is a lot of energy back on campus with them. Today is Bid Day for sororities, which means at 3:45 pm, groups started gathering on the Quad (or at their lounges if at other residence halls off the Quad) […]


Ed Wilson’s ideal bookshelf

Provost Emeritus and Professor of English Edwin G. Wilson (‘43), known affectionately to all as “Mr. Wake Forest,” is a legendary name on the Wake Forest campus. He retired before he could teach your students, but for our alumni families, I’m not sure there is […]


Spotlight on mental health

I know that students are trickling back on to campus. How, you ask? As I drove off campus last night, I saw a handful of young people jogging. Normally when school is in session, there are a ton of students jogging on campus and on […]


Wake Downtown is one year old!

Today’s Daily Deac is a guest blog from Rebecca Alexander, Professor of Chemistry and Director of Academic Programming for Wake Downtown. ———- Just a year ago we were still unpacking boxes and eager to welcome the first students to this great new space. We had an […]


Coats off!

Hallelujah, the frozen tundra of Winston-Salem has finally thawed! Today it is a downright warm 62 degrees, and the increase in the temperature has made our moods sunny as well. For the first time in what seems like a month or more, I see people […]


Monday Roundup

Happy Monday, Deac families. Today’s Daily Deac is going to be like buckshot – a little bit of everything all over the place. Weather: know that there are many parts of the country dealing with frigid weather – and Winston-Salem had been among them until […]


Winter Break

Normally I would spend my last day in the office before vacation pre-posting Daily Deacs for all the days I will be out, but a very kind Deac parent suggested to me that I take a proper vacation and be truly off duty. So I […]


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