Happy Friday, friends! We thankfully avoided the predicted dangerous weather yesterday (though there was a tornado warning just east of us). All we are left with is a windy and cold day. As I write this midday, my Weather Channel app tells me it is […]
This is a message I run every year, so our seasoned Daily Deac-ers might recognize it. This is about housing and the decision to live on or off campus during a student’s junior or senior year. Now that there has been a message about […]
Today, the campus community received an email message from our University Chaplain, Tim Auman, and Dean of the School of Divinity and Wait Chapel, Jonathan Walton, on the Atlanta shooting and anti-Asian violence. You can read it here. As they said so eloquently, “we […]
Big excitement to note: our women’s basketball team is going to the Big Dance! We got announced lastnight as the #9 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the second time our team made the cut (last time was ’87-88). Congratulations to our players, coaches, and […]
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for another edition of Meet A Deac. Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to a faculty member, Dr. Ke Zhang-Reid from Biology. Ke, thank you for agreeing to do this! Let’s start off with a proper […]
Gimme a Y [Y!] Gimme an E [E!] Gimme an L [L!] Gimme an L [L!] Gimme an O [O!] Gimme a W [W] What’s that spell? [YELLOW!] AND WE ARE BACK IN YELLOW! Families and students […]
Some of you may have seen this recent Instagram post by Brené Brown about the idea that grief requires witnessing. It was shared in the context of the milestone of 500,000 COVID deaths in our country, and how an added indignity of COVID is […]
We’re now moving into one of the most ‘beautiful weather’ times in Winston-Salem: warm (but not hot), sunny, and spring flowers are starting to bloom everywhere. And it’s almost the middle of March, which means we are about halfway through the semester. If they aren’t […]
It’s sunny and beautiful today, and the forecast looks like the week will just get better and better. Our ’24s got their edition of Letters So Dear yesterday. And while Letters So Dear is meant specifically for first-year students, there was a […]
Wake Forest prides itself on being a vibrant residential campus, and on-campus living plays a huge role in that. Today I am pleased to introduce you to Zach Blackmon of Residence Life and Housing. Full disclosure, Zach: you and I were in grad school together […]
