WFU in the news: Aug. 29-Sept. 4

FEATURED NEWS

Test-optional admissions works
By Eric Maguire | Inside Higher Ed
A decade ago, Wake Forest was among the first national universities to move to a test-optional admissions policy. College admissions nationwide are trying to decide if they will keep the test-optional policies they adopted during the pandemic or go back to policies that require standardized tests for undergraduate admissions. In the piece, Maguire shares what he has learned from Wake Forest’s experience that may help other universities make a decision. – 8/29/2022

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

Out of many parts, one painting
By John Wilmerding | The Wall Street Journal
A highlight among a current exhibition in the National Gallery of Art is a riveting composition by Robert S. Duncanson recognized as America’s most important and accomplished black artist in the middle decades of the 19th century. There appears to be little overt racial content in these works or his still-life paintings. (Art professor David Lubin of Wake Forest University has argued that Duncanson’s open passages of water signify a longing to cross over or escape.) – 9/02/2022

Digital matchmaker for art assisting hospitals, universities & libraries
By Jane Levere | Forbes
For the pilot launch of the new platform, Museum Exchange invited ten organizations, including Cleveland Clinic, Rogosin Institute and Wake Forest University, to participate and has already created over 50 artwork matches. Museum Exchange invites all libraries, universities and hospitals to join its platform, which contains a catalog of artworks available for donation and appropriate for their audiences. – 8/31/2022

NC schools make Forbes’ Top Colleges of 2022 list
By Kimberly Cataudella | News & Observer
Eleven North Carolina universities made Forbes’ Top Colleges of 2022 list, featuring 500 schools to “showcase the finest in American education,” Forbes wrote. Wake Forest is in the top 50 selected. – 9/01/2022

The Triad Business Journal also covered these rankings.

Veteran named as special envoy for African affairs
South China Morning Post
China-Africa specialist Lina Benabdallah said, “in light of the 20th [Communist] Party Congress, some shuffles are due as a routine and not necessarily to respond to specific conditions.” – 9/02/2022

REGIONAL & TRADE

Chemistry in pictures: Orbitals in stained glass
By Craig Bettenhausen | Chemical and Engineering News
Doug Linebarrier, a visiting chemistry professor at Wake Forest, brings an unusual visual aid to his lectures on the topic: this stained-glass artwork he made based on an electron density map of a 3d atomic orbital. He’s also made pieces showing the geometry of a buckyball and the solubility curves of various potassium and chloride salts. – 8/31/2022

LOCAL

Airport looks to address residents’ erosion issues
By John Deem | Winston-Salem Journal
Smith Reynolds Airport Director Mark Davidson said he will seek county funding for a restoration project in an area of Brushy Fork Creek that has experienced extreme erosion. “When you add impervious surface, it adds to the amount of water running off,” explained engineering professor Courtney Di Vittorio, who specializes in water management. “And 250 acres is a big area.” – 9/02/2022

George W. Bush and everyone else coming to North Carolina’s biggest stages
By Steve Doyle | WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Bush, the 43rd president, will be at the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem as the first guest for Wake Forest’s Face to Face Speaker Forum. He will share the stage on Sept. 14 for a conversation with presidential historian Jon Mecham. Bush also is a published artist, if you didn’t know. – 8/30/2022

Face to Face Season 2 to Kickoff September 14
By Scott Carpenter | Yes! Weekly
Face to Face Speaker Forum brings world-renowned, influential voices to Winston-Salem to discuss topics in a variety of areas including politics, arts and culture, business, global issues and social justice. Face to Face also serves as a fundraiser for need-based student scholarships at Wake Forest. – 8/31/2022

Growth, student housing has some residents of neighborhood near Wake Forest University asking for new restrictions on development
By Scott Sexton | Winston-Salem Journal
Residents living in Oak Crest are neither blind nor deaf. Their memories are long, too. Compared to many developments around the city, their neighborhood is small. Oak Crest, though it lacks the formal designation required for tax credits, is considered historic – mostly for its location on either side of Polo Road snuggled up against the Wake Forest University campus. – 8/30/2022

Shallow Ford Foundation holds mentoring workshop
By Greg Keener | The Clemmons Courier
What mentoring is — and is not — was unpacked and discussed in depth during the morning session, led by national expert, Allison E. McWilliams. McWilliams is assistant vice president for mentoring and alumni personal and career development at Wake Forest University and has written on the topic for Psychology Today, among other publications. – 8/18/2022

WAKE FOREST NEWS

PGA vs LIV: The changing landscape for professional golf
By Kim McGrath | Wake Forest News
Economist Todd McFall, an expert on the business of sports, has published peer-reviewed articles related to golf and golfing tournaments in The Journal of Sports Economics and Applied Economic Letters. In this Q&A, he talks about the ongoing tension between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. – 8/31/2022