WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, July 22 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * WFU names Nell Jessup Newton interim provost * Nell Jessup Newton, University of Notre Dame Professor Emerita, has been named interim provost of Wake Forest University beginning August 1, 2025. Newton is a distinguished lawyer, legal scholar and educator with more than 20 years of academic and administrative leadership experience. Newton served with distinction as Wake Forest's interim dean of  more