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Houston Chronicle
Challenging the FDA’s authority isn’t new
Political pressure is nothing new for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has frequently come under fire for its drug approval decisions, but attacks on its decision-making process and science itself have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legal scholar Christine Coughlin writes about the recent challenges to the FDA’s authority in the context of reproductive rights.
April 26, 2023
Yes! Weekly
WFU Face to Face Speaker Forum Announces 2023-24 Lineup
Wake Forest University’s community-facing Face to Face Speaker Forum’s 2023-24 season will begin with Presidential historian, political commentator, and Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author Doris Kearns Goodwin and Presidential historian, NBC News and PBS NewsHour, New York Times columnist and best-selling author Micahel Beschloss in conversation.
April 25, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
NC Senate bill would clarify warnings on NIL contract negotiations
Sports economicst Todd McFall said the bill “looks like it is designed to scare away commercial entities and athletes who are considering entering into NIL agreements.” “Universities have made it clear that they view NIL agreements as being substitutes to the traditional support athletic departments received from businesses, which is to say that revenues collected by schools are flagging since NIL deals became allowed.”
April 24, 2023
JNS
American professors prepare for bridge-building mission to Israel
Thirty-two participants, including film professor Woody Hood, are gearing up to take part in an academic exchange exploring Israel’s history, government, culture and economy. Participants will travel throughout Israel and meet Israeli professors from their respective disciplines with the goal of developing collaborations, research projects, co-authoring articles, and establishing exchange programs between faculty and students.
April 22, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University has clinched another national debate championship. This comes on the heels of recently winning the prestigious National Debate Tournament. The win marks a historic achievement for the Wake Forest Debate team. In 2023, they won all three major national policy debate tournaments. This includes taking home the top trophy for their win at the American Debate Association competition in early March.
April 22, 2023
The Hill
Stand Your Ground laws do not allow you to ‘shoot first and ask questions later’
In this opinion piece, sociologist and American gun culture expert David Yamane writes: “Both gun owners and non-owners must understand what self-defense laws actually allow and prohibit — politically charged rhetoric like ‘shoot first’ is harmful. Stand Your Ground does not allow anyone to ‘shoot first and ask questions later.’ Not within the law, at least. Please stop saying it does.”
April 21, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Outstanding Women in Business 2023
Olga Pierrakos was the founding chair of Wake Forest’s accredited engineering program. Over half of the faculty are women, and nearly half of the program’s students are women and nearly 20% are minorities. “I believe that engineers are ideally positioned to better humanity via innovations and contributions. Engineers with ethical character can transform our society,” Pierrakos said.
April 21, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Earth Day aligns with Wake Forest students’ erosion project
The Earth Day timing is purely serendipitous but, as it turns out, entirely appropriate. Four Wake Forest University engineering students say a nine-month senior project they will present Saturday has allowed them to apply some of what they’ve learned over the past four years while establishing a connection with a part of Winston-Salem they otherwise wouldn’t have made.
April 21, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Winston-Salem Dash ‘rebrand’ changes baseball team’s name to the Winston-Salem Hyphens
The Winston-Salem Dash are getting on board by rebranding to the Winston-Salem Hyphens. At least for one game. Journalism professor Justin Catanoso, explained that while ‘the dash’ is a great name for a baseball team, it does not represent the mark between Winston and Salem.
April 20, 2023
Fordham Institute
Character formation is central to a liberal education
The movement to reconnect knowledge and virtue is not limited to classical schools that focus on primary and secondary education. Some institutions of higher education are also taking character education seriously, such as Wake Forest University. In 2016, Wake Forest recruited Michael Lamb as a faculty member in the college, who had previously helped to launch the Oxford Character Project at Oxford University, and upon joining WFU, conceived and launched The Program for Leadership and Character in 2017.
April 19, 2023
Yes! Weekly
WFU students will build colorful, at home study spaces for local kids
Wake Forest University students will gather on Davis Field Wednesday, April 19 from 3 to 6:30 p.m. to paint desks for local elementary school children as part of an annual service project called Discovering Education through Student Knowledge or DESK.
April 19, 2023
Andscape
Meet Ariel D. Smith, ‘The Food Truck Scholar’
Ariel Smith, also known as The Food Truck Scholar, has made a career of documenting Black entrepreneurs’ mobile eateries. For her doctoral dissertation at Purdue University and other projects, she interviewed about 100 food truck operators. From those conversations, she’s published a guide advising would-be food truck owners on everything from navigating rules about where food trucks can park to designing a closet-sized kitchen on wheels. Smith will join the Wake Forest faculty later this year.
April 17, 2023