WFU in the news: July 22-28, 2004

FEATURED NEWS

Communication professor provides commentary for local/regional news
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC) – Link unavailable
Nate French, executive director of First in the Forest, director of the Magnolia Scholars Program and associate teaching professor of communication, was featured on live morning segments with WGHP morning host Brad Jones. He discussed the political implications of the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, how President Joe Biden proceeds from here and whether the political rhetoric in the U.S. will change in any way for this election cycle. French also provided insight and analysis during an interview with Jeff Hamlin from WPTF Radio in Raleigh. “This election is really just heating up, it’s not over. We have no idea what surprises or events could take place before November 5,” he said. – 7/22/2024

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

Eating Chick-Fil-A under the Christian Marclay
By Robert Alan Grand | BURNAWAY
Unbeknownst to many across the U.S., even those in North Carolina, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has a one-of-a-kind contemporary art collection. It is a collection that students have been entirely responsible for amassing since the early 1960s. Once every four years, now every three thanks to increased funding, the University takes a small group of students to New York City, many visiting for the first time, and gives them $100,000 to buy art.
7/27/2024

Most Americans who own guns say they got them for protection, survey shows
By Brenda Goodman | CNN
It’s a trend that has roots in the social upheaval of the 1960s, said sociology professor David Yamane, who studies gun culture in the U.S. “It was a time of profound social unrest and social uncertainty.” In some ways, the years of the pandemic mirrored the social movements of the 1960s. “If you think about the year of 2020, it really had some of those characteristics,” Yamane said. – 7/25/2024

3 ways to recover from a bad MBA interview
By Cole Claybourn | U.S. News & World Report
“We look at the application in its entirety, but I kind of think for us the interview is probably the most critical piece,” said Kevin Bender, executive director for MBA enrollment management and recruiting at Wake Forest School of Business. “The interview, to me, is where we bring the applicant to life. They have the opportunity to hit a home run, a foul ball or strike out.” – 7/22/2024

Research: Presidential elections impact local prosecutor races
Mirage News
Research co-authored by Jamie L. Carson of the University of Georgia, Damon Cann of Utah State University and Ronald F. Wright of Wake Forest, “The Increasing Nationalization of Local Elections: The Case of Prosecutors,” recently appeared in Political Research Quarterly shows national politics don’t stay in the federal arena. Instead, they are increasingly filtering down to local races – including the prosecutor’s office. – 7/24/2024

Why every comms pro needs a killer to-do list
By Niki Wheeler | Influence
If you want to be successful in comms, you’ve got to learn to love a list. A study by psychology professor E.J. Masicampo showed that ‘while tasks we haven’t done distract us, just making a plan to get them done can free us from this anxiety.’ – 7/26/2024

LOCAL

Gov. Roy Cooper endorses VP Kamala Harris for president
By Richard Craver | Winston-Salem Journal
Politics professor John Dinan said that “as long as Biden was at the top of the ticket, North Carolina was likely out of reach for Democrats, and in a way that had the potential to drag down prospects for down-ballot candidates in North Carolina and other states.” He added, “With Harris likely ascending to the top of the ticket, this gives Democrats a chance to reset the campaign and potentially make North Carolina more competitive for Democrats and, perhaps just as important, to possibly reduce the difficulties for down-ballot Democratic candidates.” – 7/23/2024

Join this WFU healthy lifestyle program for overweight women with little to no knee pain
By Mary McHugh | Winston-Salem Journal
Every one pound of weight lost translates to nearly four pounds of stress relief on the knee. Shannon Mihalko, professor of health and exercise science, is serving as the Wake Forest site principal investigator for a five-year clinical trial to establish the efficacy of diet and exercise and weight-loss management on women with little or no knee pain. The university has built a clinical research facility on the campus specifically to conduct clinical trials such as this one. – 7/25/2024

WAKE FOREST NEWS

High schoolers showcase STEM research at WF Leap
By Keri Brown | Wake Forest News
This summer, 25 high school students from six Title I Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools are participating in the Wake Forest LEAP ( (Lab Experiences: Academics and Professions) program. Among them is Autumn Taylor, a 15-year-old rising junior at Glenn High School who loves building theater sets and dreams of becoming an architect or structural engineer. – 7/23/2024