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WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
‘Wake N’ Shake’ raises money for cancer research
Sixteen-hundred students participated in a 12-hour dance marathon held at the Sutton Center from noon to midnight on Saturday, March 23. The goal was to raise $250,000 toward the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Students crushed the goal, raising $313,052 during Wake ‘N Shake to support cancer resear
March 23, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Front Street Capital, WFU aim to start $35M infrastructure work within a year
Front Street Capital (FSC) has $35 million to start the first phase of the planned redevelopment project around Wake Forest University’s off-campus athletic facilities. Winston-Salem City Council unanimously approved earlier this month to receive a $35 million grant from the state budget that will go towards infrastructure work in the area. Coleman Team, partner at FSC, projected at the city council meeting that shovels would be in the ground towards the end of 2024 or early 20
March 22, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Shrouded in uncertainty: North Carolina’s path to green ambitions
“The projections for greenhouse gases are certainly optimistic…it’s consistent with the other projections that you see at the national level,” Stan Meiburg, said executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, adding that the pace of reduction between the year 2030 and 2035 “will depend on choices that Duke makes.”
March 22, 2024
The Cool Down
Government program seeks to bring new jobs to former coal towns
“In places like Texas or in the middle of the country where there’s a lot of solar and wind, fossil fuel communities are relatively well positioned to take advantage of renewables,” Economics professor Mark Curtis who is studying the clean energy transition as it relates to labor, told The New York Times. “Coal communities generally don’t have that, especially when you think about Appalachia.
March 21, 2024
Connecticut Public Radio
We all strive to be right about things — we do our research, we listen to people who seem smarter than us, we make compelling arguments over dinner tables. But is there an underappreciated art to being wrong? This discussion included lessons on changing your mind and admitting mistakes from newspaper corrections to public intellectual pivots. Psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme joined this panel conversation.
March 20, 2024
INSIGHT Into Diversity
Providing equitable access through child care
Equitable access for student parents, at least in part, means offering affordable child care resources. Some institutions acknowledge this disconnect and are finding ways to provide more support. Wake Forest University in North Carolina is slated to open an on-campus child care center by fall 2024 that will prioritize placement for children of students, faculty and staff.
March 20, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
‘Midtown’ project aims to revitalize area centered on Deacon Boulevard
Winston-Salem will use a $35 million state grant to build streets, greenways and other improvements in an area centered on Deacon Boulevard with the goal of creating what’s being called Midtown – a “vibrant, mixed-use development” near Joel Coliseum, the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds and Allegacy Stadium.
March 20, 2024
Inside Higher Ed
Extroversion related to college student belonging
A new study by psychology professor Shannon Brady and colleagues found students who are extroverted and agreeable are more likely to feel as though they belong. Researchers believe this can help college leaders determine how to support students through creating a sense of belonging that accommodates personality differences. Based on the results, researchers see a need for higher education practitioners to accommodate all types of personalities in belonging interventio
March 19, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Loxx Boxx products aim to thwart porch pirates from their plunder
“While the company is not the only provider of a secure at-home package delivery system, its use of innovative technology through its lock and app can give it a competitive advantage,” said marketing professor Roger Beahm. “It can appeal to consumers who want both security and convenience when it comes to their home deliveries.” Beahm said offering customers peace of mind with online shipping can be “an emotional benefit.”
March 15, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Ed Wilson, ‘Mr. Wake Forest,’ dies at 101
Former Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson said in 2015 that as a young reader he was captivated by authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and Emily and Charlotte Bronte, as well as the tales of King Arthur. “It was the English writers that drew me especially. I was an Anglophile from an early stage.” He was named dean of the college in 1960 and that same year, students dedicated the yearbook to him. The writers described him as “a man who sacrificed much of his first love – teaching – to become an equally able administrator.”
March 14, 2024
Forbes
How a new company uses machine learning to measure academic impact
AcademicInfluence.com, co-founded in 2020 by physics professor Jed Macosko and president of the fledgling startup, believes it has the answer with a novel use of machine learning to measure various aspects of higher education, including college and department rankings, scholarly reputations and publications with the greatest impact.
March 14, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Edwin G. Wilson, beloved Wake Forest University professor and Provost Emeritus, has died
Wake Forest University retired professor of English and Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson has died. Affectionately known as “Mr. Wake Forest,” Wilson served as the university’s first provost from 1967 to 1990 and was a pivotal figure in the community. During his leadership tenure, a faculty committee voted to end segregation and the university established the Wake Forest University Press. As an English professor, he inspired thousands of students with his teachings on British Romantic poetry.
March 14, 2024