WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)

WFU to study obesity and chronic pain

Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health and exercise science and Dr. Amber Brooks, pain medicine physician and associate professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine were interviewed about the upcoming launch of their new study. The Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health-III (MORPH-III) study will track how adults age 65 or older living with obesity respond to six months of physical activity and nutrition coaching—and how much the intervention reduces weight and curbs chronic pain. For a limited time, the news clip is available to download here.

November 25, 2024

Axios Charlotte

What’s changed at Harris Teeter, 10 years after being bought by Kroger

Some customers might say the service has changed, or that Harris Teeter doesn't have as much of a "hometown" feel as before. But business professor Roger Beahm said that's likely more of a function of the retailer getting bigger and evolving and less the result of the merger. "Marketers follow a principle of evolution not revolution. If you're going to make certain changes, you evolve them; you don't make dramatic changes overnight."

November 24, 2024

WIRED Magazine

How Trump could actually increase fossil fuel production

The Bureaus of Land Management and Ocean Energy Management, as well as the Forest Service, are the three main entities that issue oil and gas leases on public spaces. These leases effectively allow fossil fuel companies to rent parcels of public land from the federal government so they can extract resources from these areas. “If you have an administration that says we want everything that could be leased to be leased, there’s a lot of discretion to be able to do that,” said Stan Meiburg, the executive director of Wake Forest's Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability.

November 23, 2024

The Conversation

To some ancient Romans, gladiators were the embodiment of tyranny

Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial contests were abhorrent displays of cruelty, but they didn’t always end in death. And the Romans didn’t sculpt bone-white statues; they painted them using an array of colors.

November 22, 2024

Mongabay

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

"Over the past three decades at annual United Nations climate summits like COP29, which is just concluding in Azerbaijan, delegates have hyperfocused on the need for national governments to regulate global carbon emissions and contribute to the trillions of dollars required to decarbonize world economies," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso. But the political will and legally binding legislation to achieve these goals has yet to materialize at a scale necessary to slow the rate of global warming.

November 22, 2024

Harvard Business Review

Leaders can’t make up for bad behavior by being nice later

School of Business professors Sean Hannah, John J. Sumanth and Sherry Moss shared the results of recent research. "Ultimately, leadership is not a balancing act between right and wrong — it’s about building trust through unwavering consistency. When leaders try to offset abusive actions with ethical ones, they risk deepening distrust and damaging their teams and organizations in ways that can have long-lasting, far-reaching impact. To be effective managers, leaders must therefore commit to being consistently ethical, fair and just, knowing that only those who embody this steadiness of behavior will truly be successful as leaders, and build a team of high-performing followers, in the long run."

November 20, 2024

Winston-Salem Journal

NC House passes Helene relief bill that targets powers of governor, attorney general

"Two things are different about the situation in 2024 compared with 2016, which is the last time that Republicans sought to limit the governor's power in a lame-duck session," said politics professor John Dinan. "First, Republicans now control the state Supreme Court that could be more open to interpreting separation of powers principles in ways that favor the legislature. Second, Republicans are taking a different approach this time around, in that they are apparently planning to leave the appointment power in an executive official, just a different executive official than the governor."

November 20, 2024

WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)

Wake Forest students fight hunger with TurkeyPalooza event ahead of Thanksgiving

For the 18th year, Wake Forest's TurkeyPalooza is underway. Volunteers are helping to prepare 700 meals, complete with turkey and all the fixings. The event benefits organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House, Shalom Project and Samaritan Ministries. Coinciding with Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, highlighting the importance of community support and awareness is vital during the holiday season. Rachel Von Dohlen, student director at the University's Campus Kitchen, was interviewed for this piece. Spectrum News also covered TurkeyPalooza.

November 20, 2024

ECO Magazine

How viruses shape marine microbe interactions

By looking at the tiniest virus-infected microbes in the ocean, researchers are gaining new insights about the marine food web that may help improve future climate change predictions. A new study, co-authored by biology professor Sheri Floge, looks at marine microbes and what happens when viruses infect them. "When we try to create predictive models of what is going to happen in the future with climate change, a lot of our uncertainty comes back to microbial interactions because they have been very much a black box. This study helps us unlock the box and gather important data that changes our understanding of some of the roles of viruses in the ocean," Floge said. The study was also featured on phys.org.

November 19, 2024

WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)

Wake Forest students prep and donate nearly 700 meals for annual TurkeyPalooza

Inside the Wake Forest Campus Kitchen, towers of styrofoam to-go containers tilt slightly on top of a coffee table. Students write “Happy Thanksgiving,” or “Happy Holidays” and put them in a separate stack. They’ve got about 700 boxes to go. In a few days, those same containers will be filled with turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and all the other fixings. It's part of the 18th annual TurkeyPalooza.

November 19, 2024

Winston-Salem Journal

Why 67,000 Greensboro residents got a lead pipe letter, compared to 4,000 in Winston-Salem

A nationwide effort to pinpoint potential issues in so-called service lines — the stretches of pipe that connect the water meter to the building — was initiated by the U.S. Environmental Agency in 2021 in the wake of Flint, Michigan’s pervasive issues with lead in its water, said Stan Meiburg, former acting deputy administrator at the EPA. The resulting revisions to federal regulations “required communities to update their inventory and identify lead pipes in their jurisdiction,” he said.

November 18, 2024

ABC News

Trump has ambitious plans for federal land use. He may not be able to accomplish them all.

"Every administration gets to the place where they have to differentiate between the rhetoric that they use in the campaign and the actual challenges when it comes to actually governing," said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest University's Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. The biggest roadblock to Trump's plans to drill on federally protected lands is whether or not those areas are actually economically competitive, compared to places where people are drilling on private land using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, he said.

November 16, 2024