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Yahoo News
First votes of 2024 NC election set to be cast
Politics professor John Dinan said turnout for North Carolina’s primaries, which begins Thursday with the start of early voting, may be stunted across the board because of the uncompetitive presidential contests. “A key question is whether the lack of a competitive presidential primary will cause voter turnout to be significantly lower than in recent presidential primaries in North Carolina,”said Dinan. “In each of the last four primaries held in presidential years, voter turnout has exceeded 30% of North Carolina registered voters. But when presidential primaries haven’t been competitive, and in mid-term election years without presidential candidates on the ballot, voter turnout in primaries has fallen below 20%.”
February 9, 2024
El País
Mentir (mucho) puede afectar a tu autoestima – (Lying (a lot) can affect your self-esteem)
A pathological liar, according to philosopher Christian Miller, director of the Honesty Project at Wake Forest University, can experience severe anxiety symptoms due to the fear of being caught and the damage to their reputation. Another source of concern for the dishonest person lies in the intricate domains of guilt. “A moral condemnation of one’s own behavior is to be expected,” said Miller.
February 9, 2024
Business North Carolina
Bloomberg donating $56M for Charlotte, Durham schools’ health programs
Bloomberg Philanthropies is donating $26 million to the Atrium Health Foundation to support Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as it develops curriculum to prepare students for health care jobs. Hawthorne Academy is expected to move to a new Second Ward high school in uptown Charlotte, within walking distance of Atrium Health’s Carolinas College of Health Sciences and the Charlotte-campus of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
February 8, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Exhibit, performance commemorate voices from the Holocaust
An exhibition at the Lam Museum of Anthropology on the campus of Wake Forest University combines literature, music and performance to form connections with those who witnessed or lost their lives in the Holocaust. The exhibit is called “Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust.” It highlights writers bearing witness, including Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank and Nelly Sachs.
February 7, 2024
Mirage News
Racial differences mark parents’ BLM talks
A study by researchers at the University of Washington and Northwestern University found 84% of Black parents and 76% of white parents spoke to their 8- to 11-year-old children about the Black Lives Matter, or BLM, movement within a year of the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Katharine Scott, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, is a co-author on this study.
February 6, 2024
WCMC-FM (Raleigh, NC)
WFU student Kyan Patel builds business by painting portraits of N.C.’s biggest athletes
“It’s very simple, I’ll draw it out first, kind of get a rough sketch of what it looks like,” Kyan Patel said from a Wake Forest University art studio. “I’ll start from the head and go down and work on every little detail.”The detail he’s working on right now is getting the color burnt orange correct on a portrait of new Texas receiver Isaiah Bond who transferred from Alabama. Bond is one of many college and pro athletes who have been the subject of a Patel portrait.
February 5, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
WFU undergraduate business school improves Poets & Quants ranking
The undergraduate business school at Wake Forest University improved 10 spots — from 43rd to 33rd — in the 2024 Poets & Quants ranking of the sector. The ranking are determined in part by ratings from alumni evaluating their undergraduate experience in their ability to land employment in their chosen industries and desired companies.
February 5, 2024
Observador
Avoid war, focus on ‘family’ and deal with a surprise candidate
Russia goes to the vote in March and no one has any doubts that Putin will win. But despite this, the Kremlin fears surprises and wants to control the process as much as possible. “Elections require a lot of mobilization from the State to get people to the polls and mitigate uncertainty. It will be interesting to observe how the State carries out this task amidst the economic and political constraints of a war The Kremlin just wants this to end,” said Wake Forest Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs Adam Lenton .
February 2, 2024
WJZY-TV (Charlotte, NC)
February 1 marks the 64th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, sparking a nationwide movement
By Feb. 5, hundreds of students were joining in on the protest and the sit-ins were spreading, including to the Woolworth’s in neighboring Winston-Salem, which is now being renovated into an event space to preserve the history made by Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University students.
February 1, 2024
Spectrum News Charlotte
Wake Forest University gallery allowing guests to feel art
“We are really making sure that we’re focused on buying artworks from people that are queer, BIPOC, female, identifying nonbinary and Indigenous artists, that people that are less represented in our previously existing collection, because that’s really important for our students here on campus to feel seen, heard, known within the artworks and artist biographies that we’re having here,” said junior Georgia-Kathryn Duncan who is one of the students who will be traveling to New York City on the upcoming art acquisition trip in March.
January 31, 2024
Associated Press
Days of darkness: The conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions
“We are the stories we tell ourselves,” said Associate Professor of Communication John Llewellyn, who studies conspiracy theories and why people believe what they believe. “We’ve landed on the moon, and now we’ve got artificial intelligence — for better or worse — but no matter how advanced we get, we still have to deal with the human brain.”
January 31, 2024
TIME
Why the American public is more war-weary than ever
Politics and international affairs professor William Walldorf, a visiting fellow at Defense Priorities, writes: “The U.S. is creeping toward war in the Middle East. A drone attack at a U.S. base on Sunday killed three American troops and injured 34 others. The attack—claimed by Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which opposes Washington’s support for Israel—has prompted President Joe Biden to vow retaliation. Are Americans ready for war? Not at all.”
January 31, 2024