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Director for the CDC, Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, to deliver 2024 commencement address
Baccalaureate speaker will be Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics Rev. Gary Dorrien(Winston-Salem, N.C. – Feb. 21, 2024) –One of the nation’s top health leaders, Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement address on Monday, May 20. The ceremony will take place on Hearn Plaza and begins at 9 a.m. Dr. Cohen is the Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
February 21, 2024
NPR: The Indicator from Planet Money
Could fake horns end illegal rhino poaching?
In business, the million-dollar question is how to get people to buy stuff. But in wildlife conservation, the challenge is: how do we get people to not buy stuff? Economics professor Fred Chen shares his expertise on whether fake horns can end illegal rhino poaching.
February 20, 2024
Life and Health Advisor
“While there is uncertainty about how effective interest rates are, there is consensus among economists that raising interest rates does lower inflation somewhat. However, interest rates are a blunt tool and rising interest rates can have widely varying impacts on households and businesses depending on their financial situation. For example, someone who wants to buy a house in early 2024 with a 7% mortgage rate is severely disadvantaged relative to someone who bought a house in 2021 with a 3% mortgage rate,” said economics professor Aeimit Lakdawala.
February 20, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Piedmont Federal Bank removes ‘savings’ from name in brand refresh
The rebranding should help the financial institution broaden its appeal, said marketing professor Roger Beahm. “By having previously been positioned as a savings bank through its name, Piedmont Federal may not have been viewed as competing for the same broader audience of banking customers as commercial banks — particularly in the area of loan origination. Brands are perceived based on what you tell them you are.”
February 20, 2024
Yahoo! Finance
China’s foreign minister still starts the year with a trip to Africa
When Qian Qichen, then China’s foreign minister, visited Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in January 1991, he set the ball rolling for what Chinese state media called an “unstoppable trend. “Since then Chinese foreign ministers have chosen African nations as their first overseas stop each year. Politics and international studies professor Lina Benabdallah said one of the most appealing aspects was “precisely the continuity and the track record of the tradition.” She added, “This has established a narrative of stability and of continuous prioritizing of China-Africa relations.”
February 19, 2024
techguide.org
Wake Forest University School of Business is ranked #12 in TechGuide’s latest 2024 rankings for the Master’s in Business Analytics. A master’s in business analytics program (also known as an MSBA) helps prepare students for careers in data analysis or data science – making predictions about future processes and trends that could affect business decisions.
February 18, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Assistant Professors of Physics Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada and Stephen M. Winter have each been granted National Science Foundation CAREER awards, which recognize the best and brightest talent in the United States. Together, the two grants total more than $1 million. The five-year grants are awarded to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education.
February 18, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
A memoir and a warning: Liz Cheney tells the story of Jan. 6
The most jarring part of Liz Cheney’s book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” may not be the writing, which is riveting, but the photographs. Cheney, who will speak to a sell-out audience at Wake Forest University on Feb. 22, came of age in that party and eventually held her father’s seat in Congress.
February 18, 2024
NPR: All Things Considered
What happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town?
Economist Mark Curtis has studied this shift in the workforce. “We found that of workers that were leaving fossil fuel jobs, certainly less than 2% ended up in a renewable energy job. So it’s not a lot. And in a place like West Virginia, it was even smaller than that. Approximately 0.25% of workers that left fossil-fuel jobs were going to renewable energy jobs.”
February 16, 2024
Stimson
The pragmatic steps the United States needs to take in the Red Sea
“Protecting principles central to U.S. national security over the long term sometimes requires pragmatism in the short term,” writes politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf. In short, better to be realistic today in order to protect U.S. national security (including a firm U.S. commitment to open sea lanes) tomorrow.
February 16, 2024
Science Magazine
Serengeti’s ‘breathtaking’ mammal migration shaped by grazers’ diets
Each April, some 200,000 zebras begin their journey 800 kilometers northward through the Serengeti in Tanzania and into Kenya. About 1.3 million wildebeests join the throng, and after nearly 1 month come 400,000 Thomson’s gazelles. The procession is “breathtaking,” said biology professor and savanna ecologist T. Michael Anderson. After watching the herds with camera traps for 8 years, tracking them with GPS, and collecting feces to understand their diets, Anderson and his research team have “unraveled the mysteries of one of most impressive natural spectacles in the world.”
February 15, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Michael Fulks makes TBJ’s Class of 40 Under 40
Wake Forest adjunct law professor Michael Fulks was named to Triad Business Journal’s list of 40 under 40. Fulks represents various clients including entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and businesses of all sizes, and teaches a class on entrepreneurship and the law.
February 15, 2024