WINSTON-SALEM -- A new residence hall at Wake Forest University will bear the name of famed author and former Professor Maya Angelou.
The new facility on the south side of campus will house 224 students and include a classroom space and the office of residence life and housing.
It's set to open in January, and starting next fall, will be a first-year student dorm.
Maya Angelou hall is the first building on campus named for the civil rights icon, though the university's School of Medicine opened the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity in 2002.
Angelou taught American Studies at wake forest from 1982 until her death in 2014.