Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 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. The Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center campus has two locations, the older one located near the Ardmore neighborhood in central Winston-Salem, and the newer campus at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter downtown. The university also occupies lab space at Biotech Plaza at Innovation Quarter, and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. The university's Graduate School of Management maintains a presence on the main campus in Winston-Salem and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ira Remsen was an American chemist who discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin along with Constantin Fahlberg. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) is a historically black public university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina.
Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Schmid College of Science and Technology, and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university says that it is not a Christian college, but it has had a relationship with the Disciples of Christ since the university's founding and with the United Church of Christ since 2011.
Philip Noel Pettit is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.
Robert George Bergman is an American chemist. He is Professor of the Graduate School and Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Feeney is an author, and arts writer for The Boston Globe for over four decades. He is the author of two books, Nixon at the Movies (2004) and Nixon and the Silver Screen (2012). Feeney is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harry Clifton is an Irish poet.
The Wake Forest University School of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of Wake Forest University. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wake Forest University School of Law is a private American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The school was established in 1894. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the school among the Top Tier Law Schools in the nation. The current dean is Jane Aiken.
William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian, and William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at University of North Carolina. His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War.
Norman Richard Pace Jr. is an American biochemist, and is Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado. He is principal investigator at the Pace lab.
Steve Nickles is an American lawyer and known figure in his field, currently the C. C. Hope Chair in Law and Management and previously the Bess and Walter Williams Distinguished Professor of Law, at Wake Forest University. He was also the Roger F. Noreen Chair in Law at University of Minnesota.
Michael Hyde is an American linguist, currently a University Distinguished Professor at Wake Forest University.
Len Preslar, Jr. is an American business educator, having been named Distinguished Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University in 2009. He was born in Concord, NC August 13, 1947. He graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in economics. He has an MBA from the University of NC Greensboro. He had a distinguished career as the CEO and President of the North Carolina Baptist Hospital of 18 years before retiring in 2007. After retiring he joined the faculty of the graduate business school of Wake Forest University.
Sherry Lynn Smith is an American historian, and University Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University. From 2008 to 2009, she was President of the Western History Association.
Ben C. Sutton Jr. is an American investor and philanthropist and the founder and Chairman of Teall Capital, a private equity fund and portfolio holding company. With other Sutton Family partnerships.
Robert James Plemmons is an American mathematician specializing in computational mathematics. He is the Emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. In 1979, Plemmons co-authored the book Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences.
