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The Christian Science Monitor
California’s take on a housing crisis: Aim for abundance, reap affordability
The laws are, in part, designed to promote units that are affordable – generally defined as costing no more than 30% of a family’s income. They move California in the right direction, said Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist at Wake Forest University who studies housing and poverty. If California – where midtier homes cost more than twice the nationwide average – can narrow the affordability gap with an influx of new housing, then it could “perhaps be a blueprint for other states and localities,” she said.
October 30, 2025
Katie Couric Media
Trump keeps musing about a third term — But is it even possible?
And if such a plan exists, Shannon Gilreath, a law professor at Wake Forest University, said it shouldn’t stay in the shadows. “When something as serious as this is proposed, there ought to be absolute clarity and transparency from the people proposing it as to what exactly it is they think the path forward is,” Gilreath tells us. “People have a right to know that.”
October 29, 2025
Fast Company
Wake Forest University uses its annual celebration of each year’s retirees as a sort of “induction” into the university’s retiree group, said Mary Lucal, the school’s vice president and chief human resources officer. She said the university gets access to “the institutional knowledge [the retirees] carry.” Many even return to the university to work part-time.
October 29, 2025
Mongabay
Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town
"Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast. In a rare victory last April, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, won a major pollution permitting battle against Drax’s Amite BioEnergy pellet mill — one of the largest in the world. But at an October appeal meeting, the Mississippi Department of Environment Quality reversed itself, giving Drax permission to pollute more today than previously," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular contributor to Mongabay.
October 28, 2025
NPR All Things Considered
Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they’re buying guns
"We definitely saw something similar happening in the COVID year of 2020, where we rolled straight from the pandemic into the summer of the George Floyd murder protests and then rolling straight from there into a contested presidential election. And there we do have some data. We do know that in that year, that new gun owners were disproportionately African American. They were disproportionately female," said sociology professor David Yamane, a nationally recognized scholarly authority on guns.
October 28, 2025
The Charlotte Observer
Reynolds American listed among donors for $300 million White House ballroom
Anytime a corporation provides a significant political contribution, "there is always going to be some risk of consumer backlash from any contributions a company makes to a controversial project or cause," said Roger Beahm, a retired Wake Forest marketing professor and a former marketing executive. "As long as the brands themselves are distanced from their corporate parent, the risks can diminish significantly."
October 28, 2025
POLITICO
Economics professor Robert Whaples, who has long argued that the penny is obsolete, said the transition is “not going to be that big of a deal.” “And it’ll slowly unfold,” he said. “I think I’m going to still be seeing pennies a decade or two decades from now … There are so many of them still out there in circulation.”
October 27, 2025
The Queen Zone
15 habits that make people lose respect for you
Ever notice how one lie can unravel an entire relationship? A Wake Forest University study found that among 60 characteristics people value, honesty is number 1. When you lie, even about the small stuff, you send the signal “you can’t trust me,” and once trust goes, respect follows. The fix: be straight with people, own it if you messed up, and remember your reputation survives honesty far better than it survives lies.
October 27, 2025
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Wake Forest’s Project Pumpkin welcomes local schoolchildren to annual fall festival
Through the annual community event and several other fundraisers, Project Pumpkin helps raise money to support the Wake Forest University Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School, a free summer enrichment program for Winston-Salem children. The six-week program is hosted by the Department of Education on the Reynolda campus.
October 27, 2025
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Mitt Romney set to take the stage at Wake Forest University’s Face to Face speaker forum
Mitt Romney is the latest guest for Wake Forest University's Face to Face Speaker Forum. He will take the stage at Wait Chapel on Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m. Romney is a statesman, businessman and former Republican presidential nominee. Frank Bruni, a journalist who served as staff writer for The New York Times for more than 25 years, will be the moderator.
October 27, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University dedicates Hopkins Residence Hall for Larry and Beth Hopkins
Beth Hopkins thanked the university for recognizing her husband and herself in naming the residence hall. “It not only acknowledges the Hopkins family journey, but the journey of all of the students of color who proceeded us and laid the foundation for creating great memories for me and my friends,” Hopkins said. Beth and Larry Hopkins met while they were students at Wake Forest in the early 1970s. They were married for 47 years before Dr. Larry Hopkins died in 2020.
October 26, 2025
Essence
Wake Forest honors Black couple who broke barriers on campus and in the community
When Hopkins received the call informing her of the university’s decision, she was stunned. “I was speechless, and the tears just flowed,” she recalls. “I couldn’t even say thank you, because I was so overcome. I’m very pleased. I’m humbled by this.” According to the professor, there were approximately 20 Black students on campus in the late 1960s. Even though the fight for civil rights had already begun to have an impact across the country at that time, they still had to endure both subtle and overt racism.
October 24, 2025