With public health information saying ‘why’ matters

A new study co-authored by @Wake Forest Statistics Professor Lucy D'Agostino McGowan takes a closer look at how transparency in public health messaging can influence community response. The research, also conducted by one of her students, was recently published in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Sociology class uses 1950 Census to create work history family trees

snapshot of census record When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.

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