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Fan psychology: What draws fans together to gather and celebrate?
Folks who find supportive fandoms can benefit from improved social skills and give you something meaningful to look forward to. This may sound banal at first but psychology professor Christian Waugh explains that desire is a powerful positive emotion. Waugh states that anticipation gives you “a little bit of a positive emotional boost” that helps you overcome stress.
January 16, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Students from area universities to volunteer at annual MLK event for elementary schoolers at WSSU
About 100 college students in Winston-Salem are teaming up to work with children for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Read-In event this weekend. The event is a way to honor Dr. King’s legacy and ideas around service and equality. Approximately 60 Forsyth County elementary schoolers will be paired up with students from three local universities: Winston-Salem State, Wake Forest, and UNC-School of the Arts.
January 16, 2024
South China Morning Post
International affairs professor Neil Devotta said India and the US among others, were concerned that Chinese-owned ports might be converted to bases in the future, leading to China’s further “power projection.” “The countries concerned would like to delay or prevent this development in the Indo-Pacific, hence the pressure on small states like Sri Lanka,” he said, adding that while Colombo owed China money and relied on it for support in international forums, it mainly depended on Western markets for exports.
January 15, 2024
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University host joint MLK Jr. Day program
This year’s theme was about making our voices heard. Even though the two schools have very different demographic makeups, they focused on what mattered most— bridging the gap. Speakers talked about “how we as a people need to move away from celebrating to activating change.”
January 15, 2024
Greensboro News & Record
Triad visits by Martin Luther King Jr. were few. But when he came, he brought ‘thunder’
On October 11, 1962, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Wake Forest University. More than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, He stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200.
January 15, 2024
E&E News
‘Maximum urgency and de facto risk’
Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, including as acting deputy administrator during the Obama administration, anticipates such a catastrophe could happen again, warranting the agency’s attention. “It’s almost inevitable in an election year that something unexpected will occur, whether some form of an accidental release or extreme weather event that requires EPA emergency response resources,” said Meiburg, now executive director of Wake Forest’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability.
January 12, 2024
Marketplace
Why are bagels sold at the grocery store only partially sliced?
Marketing professor Roger Beahm said there are multiple advantages to this practice. It’s convenient for consumers, it ensures that the bagels stay fresh and it keeps the bagel intact. “Partially slicing still allows the bagel to retain more of its freshness than if it were sliced completely through. With less of the bagel’s interior surface exposed, the inside freshness can remain longer, especially once the package has been opened.”
January 12, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Here’s a big calendar of things to do around the Triad
Secrest Artists Series Hosts Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: 7:30 p.m., Wake Forest University, Wait Chapel. Will include works by Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Vasily Petrenko conducts. Features internationally renowned British pianist, soloist and chamber musician Isata Kanneh-Mason. $5-$24. Free to WFU students, faculty, staff and retirees.
January 12, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem man convicted in 1994 double homicide released on parole
In November 2021, S. Mark Rabil, director of the Innocence and Justice Clinic at Wake Forest’s law school, and Rabil’s colleague, Emily Thornton, filed a motion asking a judge to order new forensic testing of ballistics evidence in the case.
January 12, 2024
ViaNolaVie
Alternative ways of living: How to regain your free time as a workaholic
During an additional recent study, Professors Baumeister and Masicampo of Wake Forest University stated that “simply writing the tasks down will make you more effective.”
January 11, 2024
The Statesville Record & Landmark
Another governor poll finds Robinson as leader; Folwell gains endorsement
“Certainly, a number of Republican activists and officials are looking strongly at alternatives to Mark Robinson as a gubernatorial candidate,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Dale Folwell has the most extensive governing experience of any candidate in the Republican field, as well as a record of governance that could be expected to appeal to a wide group of Republicans and also unaffiliated voters in a general election campaign.”
January 10, 2024
Mountain Xpress
Legal case could be costly for PEAK Academy
Law professor Shannon Gilreath teaches constitutional law. The Students for Fair Admissions case decision was based on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Harvard case and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment in the UNC case, he said.
January 9, 2024