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WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)

Seeking pasture in Winston-Salem

Last month in the Triad, a local artist set out to trim lawns and raise environmental awareness with the help of two four-legged assistants. Activist, artist and filmmaker Joel Tauber calls the Buena Vista neighborhood in Winston-Salem home. He says after giving considerable thought to the chemical and noise pollution caused by manicured lawns and gas-powered mowers, he decided to take action. He adopted two sheep, Sarah and Rebecca, and set out to provide his neighbors with an alternative.

December 22, 2025

Poets & Quants

Poets & Quants’ rankings show high marks for Wake Forest School of Business

Poets & Quants' list of "The Best Online MBA Programs of 2026" ranked Wake Forest University School of Business as 14th and one of the year's "biggest climbers." Business school graduates also highly rated the degree's impact on their careers.

December 21, 2025

The News & Observer

You could have won money off what Trump said in Eastern NC Friday night

“To me, the coolest thing about these markets is not the opportunity to bet,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf, an expert on prediction markets. “It’s the opportunity for me to consume or learn from the information of a lot of very smart people on this incredible range of topics. Sometimes the markets help tell me something that can be more grounded in data,” he said.

December 20, 2025

WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)

Political science expert: Jim Hunt was NC’s ‘most consequential governor’

Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a four-term leader credited with reshaping the power of the governor’s office and elevating public education statewide, has died at 88. Politics professor Dr. John Dinan said Hunt was “the most consequential governor our state has ever had,” pointing to how the office evolved during Hunt’s era. Dinan noted that before Hunt took office, North Carolina governors had no veto power and were limited to one term.

December 18, 2025

The Portland Press Herald

Why are so many betting on Graham Platner to beat Janet Mills?

Platner is leading Gov. Janet Mills on Polymarket and Kalshi, websites that allow betting on elections, sports and current events that some experts say can be better predictors of election results than polls. “I’m continually amazed at how smart people on the site are in terms of the kind of information and things they dig up," said economics professor Koleman Strumpf, who studies prediction markets. “As a result, these people tend to be pretty informed and work pretty hard to know more than other people, and they typically do. These are some of the most astute forecasters of these elections.”

December 15, 2025

WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)

Are Triad universities experiencing a drop in international student enrollment?

There is some hesitancy from international students abroad, but there's also interest, said Wake Forest Center for Immigration Services & Support Director Nathanial Lynch. "There still has been a lot of appetite, depending on the country, but there is still some hesitancy due to some of the changes in the political landscape."

December 15, 2025

The New York Times

Want a healthier brain in 2026? Sign up for Well’s 5-Day Challenge

It should come as no surprise that how you treat your brain is essential to your health, longevity and happiness. Researchers who ran the POINTER trial attest to this. Jeffrey Katula, McDonough Family Faculty Fellow in the Wake Forest Department of Health and Exercise Science, worked to design and implement the intervention with the study’s principal investigator Laura D. Baker, Ph.D., a professor of gerontology and geriatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The study included regular support group meetings for the participants. The accountability and community those meetings provided were key to helping 89% of people stick with the trial for two years.

December 15, 2025

MarketWatch

How much tech stock is too much in your portfolio right now? 7 financial experts weigh in

“For a passive investor, there really isn’t an easy way to say how much is too much tech. It’s simply part of the structure of today’s market,” said Deon Strickland, financial adviser and finance professor at Wake Forest University.

December 15, 2025

Business Insider

From shoplifting to return fraud, how America became a nation of small-time scammers, cheaters, and thieves

Many of us are open to engaging in dishonest behaviors when we think we can get away with them and have something to gain, explains philosophy professor Christian Miller. "You don't see people in life often cheating in dramatic ways or stealing in dramatic ways, because they think they're going to get caught, and also, it's hard to continue to think of yourself as an honest person if you do," he said. "When the opportunity arises to cheat or steal in some minor way, we're willing to overlook that, because we can still think of ourselves as honest people, rationalize it, and benefit in the process."

December 14, 2025

Miami Herald

Migration and crime fears propel Chile to the right in presidential vote

"Kast's election underscores the depth of Chile's crisis of confidence in political institutions," said politics professor Peter Siavelis "The result is best understood as another expression of distrust toward political elites and governing arrangements, rather than a mandate for a conservative transformation of Chilean society."

December 14, 2025

Bloomberg News

Kast’s landslide win propels Chile into US-led conservative orbit

Peter Siavelis, an expert on Latin American politics, provided expert commentary in this article on ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast's landslide victory in Chile’s presidential election, which harnessed voter anger over crime and migration to drive the country into its most dramatic rightward shift in decades. With nearly 100% of ballots counted, Kast received 58% of the vote and swept all 16 regions of Chile.

December 14, 2025

The Daily Upside

In casinos, the house always wins. What about prediction markets?

"Regular people who do not trade in these markets at all can pop open Polymarket or Kalshi and draft on all this knowledge of all these smart people,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf. “And sure, you could try to read a bunch of articles to distill that same bit of information, but A, instead of five seconds, you’ll spend five hours, and B, none of those sources will actually probably answer the question that you really want to know at the end of the day.”

December 14, 2025