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WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
How important is NC ahead of the 2024 presidential election?
“Presidential candidates are starting to set their eyes on which states will give them a boost in the long run. Face to Face Speaker Forum guest Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian for NBC News, said,”I think it’s hard to argue that there’s no way to the White House if you don’t win North Carolina.” Politics professor John Dinan commented on North Carolina’s newly drawn district maps. “Well, here we are again; we’re redrawing maps in the middle of the decade. The maps will be redrawn for the state House, the state Senate and 14 congressional districts.”
September 28, 2023
E&E News
Shutdown won’t freeze work on climate law
The climate law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, has received multiyear funding from Congress, so it isn’t subject to the same spending limitations as other government programs that are funded on a per-year basis. “Those funds under those pieces of law are treated differently than normal appropriations,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. “The authorization doesn’t expire at the end of the fiscal year.”
September 26, 2023
BroadwayWorld.com
The Congress for Jewish Culture to celebrate diamond jubilee with website launch
The Congress for Jewish Culture’s new website will begin a colossal literary and technical undertaking to provide previously unavailable functionality for a new Library and Leksikon section of the site. “The Leksikon has been an indispensable guide to students and scholars of modern Yiddish culture. A digital version of this work – which remains the most comprehensive guide to the world of Yiddish literature and scholarship – would not only make this work available to future generations of researchers but would open new avenues of research and make possible new ventures in Digital Humanities for Yiddish,” said history professor Barry Trachtenberg.
September 26, 2023
Triad Business Journal
WFU receives $5M gift to advance its environmental, sustainability efforts
The gift will support research, education and outreach. It will also create new opportunities for faculty and students to develop new methods, technology and results and take them from academic spaces into the public arena. Wake Forest’s Center for the Environment, Energy and Sustainability will also be renamed the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. The University is seeking additional support for the center, with a goal of creating a $10 million endowment.
September 26, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
$5 million gift will support environment and sustainability efforts at Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University has received a $5 million dollar gift to strengthen its work on environmental and sustainability issues. The investment comes from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation. The goal is to support environmental research, education, and outreach through collaborations both on campus and with global partners.
September 26, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
‘World-changing impact’: $5M grant to broaden WFU’s climate, environmental reach
Andrew Sabin, CEO of New York-based Sabin Metal Corp., is the parent of two Wake Forest graduates and grandparent of a current student. The family’s foundation supports environmental programs internationally. The Sabin Center will focus on issues including the impact of rising global temperatures, biodiversity loss, environmental contamination, drought and water scarcity, resource depletion and deforestation.
September 25, 2023
Terra
Customer sues McDonald’s for spilling hot coffee — and this isn’t the first time
There was evidence of at least 700 reports of burns and coffee temperatures that could cause serious injuries in just a matter of seconds, and the person was widely criticized in the court of public opinion, said communication professor John Llewellyn. “It became an issue of women, coffee and millions of dollars, and then people took that as a license to say that the courts are crazy and the plaintiffs are greedy,” he said. “But what was missing from this entire equation was the context behind the verdict, which was erased from the news.”
September 24, 2023
The New Yorker
In this weekend essay, author Rachel Monroe references work by sociologist and gun culture expert David Yamane. “One of Yamane’s main points was that, for many Americans, guns are normal—neither instruments of righteous retribution, like some on the right like to imagine, nor harbingers of societal collapse, like some on the left believe. Millions of Americans live with firearms, and most of them don’t kill themselves or anyone else,” she writes.
September 23, 2023
The Wall Street Journal
How trauma can become a catalyst for personal growth
While many people show resilience after adversity, not everyone experiences post-traumatic growth, said psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme. “A lot of studies track people after they have gone through a traumatic event.… If you go through a negative event like a divorce, there’s a long time spent reflecting” on what went wrong and how you could have been a better spouse. So any positive changes stemming from the divorce may take longer to show up.
September 23, 2023
The New York Times
“Mercury, for better or worse, is a very simple technology, used for the better part of 2,000 years,” said Luis Fernandez, a Wake Forest University professor who has studied small-scale gold mining. “You can learn how to be a miner in 15 minutes, and you get pretty good results. Gold mining “is an economic pressure valve for poorer countries,” he said. Fernandez is executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).
September 22, 2023
Arizona Daily Star
What is work-life balance, really?
If you want to learn about what “work-life balance” really means, ask Wendy Casper. Wendy teamed up with business professor Julie Holliday Wayne to understand what balance really is. Their research found that to be balanced we need to be involved and effective and feel good about the roles we really care about, whereas those roles we care little about won’t really impact our sense of balance. Bottom line: it’s about what matters most.
September 22, 2023
E&E News
EPA is not part of Biden’s climate corps. Why?
Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, including as acting deputy assistant administrator during the Obama administration, said he was “slightly, but not existentially” surprised that his former agency was not part of the American Climate Corps. “The places where these climate corps people may be deployed is where these agencies have real assets on the ground — properties, wildlife refuges, parks, national forests, conservation areas,” he said. Meiburg is the executive director of the newly renamed Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
September 21, 2023