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WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University partners with Speas Elementary to make learning creative and engaging
Learning got creative at Speas Elementary School in Winston-Salem thanks to some Wake Forest students. The elementary students were able to experience hands-on learning as part of an innovative program called, “Theater in Education.” Education and theater students have been working with second graders using the performing arts to teach lessons on science.
April 24, 2024
Global News
Peel police chief met Sri Lankan officer a court says ‘participated’ in torture
The head of one of Canada’s largest police forces met with a Sri Lankan inspector general of police who two weeks earlier had been found by the South Asian country’s highest court to have “participated in the torture” of an arrested man. Tennakoon’s recent appointment as police chief shows “much about how law enforcement authorities in the island operate with impunity,” said politics professor Neil DeVotta.
April 23, 2024
Spectrum News Charlotte
North Carolina campuses team up for unique renewable energy partnership
Davidson College, Wake Forest University and Elon University have teamed up with several higher education institutions in Pennsylvania for the Sebree Solar II Project, which will bring a large-scale solar facility online in western Kentucky.
April 23, 2024
WSJS-AM (Winston-Salem, NC)
WFU commits to 100% renewable energy
“Sustainability is a big commitment here,” said Vice President for Institutional Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, in an interview with Jeffrey Griffin about the University’s collaborative solar energy project. “This is an exciting partnership with eight other institutions for us to take part in activating a big solar installation in Kentucky,” DeLongre Johnson said. “It is a great spot for us to invest in renewable energy….that community benefits and we benefit through renewable energy credits that will become part of our overall greenhouse gas accounting equation.”
April 23, 2024
WXLV-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Winston-Salem and Wake Forest partner to make improvements to Polo Road
“As a player in the community, we have a role as stewards in the community. Making sure we’re not needlessly adding single-occupancy vehicle commuters to the road,” said DeDee DeLongpre Johnston, vice president for sustainability and chief sustainability officer. “We have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian corridors leading to and from campus already, so we want to make sure that the folks who are opting for active transportation are doing so as safely as possible.”
April 23, 2024
Moneygeek
Best Business Credit Cards in 2024
Business professor Ajay Patel answers questions on which small businesses most benefit from using a credit card and how business owners can appropriately use their credit cards to build credit and stay out of debt.
April 22, 2024
CBS News
Supreme Court to consider clash of Idaho abortion ban with federal law for emergency care
But states can still enforce their abortion restrictions, said law professor Meghan Boone, who is an expert on reproductive rights. “The overlap here where there could be a potential conflict between what EMTALA requires and what Idaho says is criminal is a fairly narrow range of cases. It’s not going to cover all abortions.”
April 22, 2024
North Carolina Health News
The larger a hospital’s footprint, the more bargaining power it has when it negotiates prices with health insurance companies, said law professor Mark Hall. Hospitals also cite economies of scale and operational efficiencies they say will enhance patient care, he said.
April 22, 2024
CBS News
Biden leans on young voters to flip North Carolina
Tarak Duggal, a senior at Wake Forest University, was one of the event’s participants.”It is inspiring and helpful to see that the campaign is taking us seriously and is listening to us and understands how important of a voting bloc that young people are,” she said.
April 20, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
NC Court of Appeals rules some COVID-19 restrictions harmed bars
Law professor Mark Hall said the panel’s opinion “shows a surprising reluctance to defer to public health officials in the midst of a national emergency.” He added: “It appears to require public health officials to back up their expert professional judgments in those circumstances with scientific studies that have been published in peer-reviewed journals – something that simply is not possible in a realistic time frame during an unexpected emergency.”
April 18, 2024
The Wall Street Journal
Americans throw away up to $68M in coins a year. Here is where it all ends up.
Coins are as good as junk for many Americans. “If you lost a $100 bill you’d look for it. If you lost a $20 bill you’d look for it. If you lost a book you’d look for it,” said economics professor Robert Whaples. “But a penny, you’re just not going to look for it.” Whaples has encouraged the government to kill the penny, which costs about three times its value to make.
April 17, 2024
Associated Press
Weedkiller manufacturer seeks lawmakers’ help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer
Law professor Jonathan Cardi, a product liability and torts expert, said a strict reading of the Iowa legislation extends beyond liability claims, and “the way it’s drafted makes it interpretable to mean nobody could bring any suit.”
April 16, 2024