President's Office. Susan R. Wente Records
Dr. Susan R. Wente became Wake Forest University's 14th president on July 1, 2021. Materials in this collection include emails, news articles, and certificates.
Biographical and Historical Note
Dr. Susan R. Wente became Wake Forest University's 14th president on July 1, 2021. Prior to leading Wake Forest, Wente was the Provost and interim Chancellor at Vanderbuilt University, an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington Univeristy of St. Louis, and a Posdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, N.Y. Wente received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the Univeristy of Iowa and a doctorate in biochemistry from University of California, Berkeley.
As president, Wente has launched several initiatives during her presidency, such as the For Humanity iniative which has raised more than $50 million to support new scholarships and approving a $1 million plan to update academic and classroom spaces on the Reynolda Campus.
Across her career, Wente has receieved many awards, such as the MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and the Women in Cell Biology Senior Career Award from the American Society for Cell Biology.
Collection Overview
This collection documents the presidency of Susan R. Wente at Wake Forest University. Materials in this collection include certificates, emails, event programs, news articles, memorandums, and speeches. The collection also contains the email announcing the beginning of the search process in 2020.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Towne Moores, 2024
- Revision Description
- Revised by Kate Trathen, new materials added, January 2026
- Revision Description
- Revised by Kate Trathen, new materials added, February 2026
- Access Restrictions
- This collection is open to researchers.
- Copyright Notice
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- Preferred Citation
- President's Office. Susan R. Wente Records (RG 1.14), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.