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Global News
Quebec cemetery turns former golf course into forest for the deceased
The customizable tributes at Forêt de la Seconde Vie are part of a “major cultural shift” in attitudes about funerals in North America, explained law professor Tanya Marsh, who studies the treatment of human remains. Two trends are driving that shift, she said. The first is “a greater interest in memorialization options and personalization. The second is an “increased interest in greening the funeral.”
August 20, 2023
Currentpub
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
Philosophy professor Christian Miller announced this week the conclusion of (the grant period of) his Honesty Project. You can read more about this important project here. And here is a bibliography of the work that has emerged from it.
August 19, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest revives plans to redevelop area around Joel Coliseum, Allegacy Stadium
Wake Forest University is reviving a mixed-use development proposal around its athletic facilities on Deacon Boulevard. Under consideration are retail stores, restaurants, other services and residential uses. “Adjacent to several residential communities, including the historic Boston-Thurmond neighborhood, our exploration of development opportunities with Carter/Front Street will be guided by a strong commitment to our community’s collective wellbeing,” said Wake Forest President Susan R. Wente.
August 19, 2023
Los Angeles Times
With the fate of their sacred space in limbo, they took over the cemetery
Law professor Tanya Marsh, an expert on funeral and cemetery law, said that cemetery abandonment is more common than some realize. “Especially in the case of religious organizations, there are tons of abandoned cemeteries in the United States because a church dissolves or a congregation moves and the cemetery stays behind.”
August 18, 2023
atlantanews.net
Study gives new insight into antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Meisam Nosrati, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Conn lab and a co-author of the PNAS paper, tapped the expertise of co-author Lindsay Comstock, a chemist and professor at Wake Forest who developed a technique to trap and stabilize the enzyme in the needed position.
August 18, 2023
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
City of Winston partners with Wake Forest University on new development
Wake Forest University has big plans for a part of a Winston-Salem neighborhood. The University wants to redevelop areas around the Joel and Legacy stadiums and is working with the City of Winston-Salem to create a mixed-use development with new housing, retail and restaurants.
August 18, 2023
Triad Business Journal
WFU enlists Front Street Capital, Carter to help redevelop area near Allegacy Stadium, LJVM Coliseum
Wake Forest University has announced that it will redevelop the property it owns in the area east of its main campus, near the newly named Allegacy Stadium, Couch Ballpark and Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in a mixed-use project aimed at benefiting the local community and visitors. The University has enlisted a familiar local firm and an Atlanta group to overhaul an area near campus that holds huge potential for residential, retail and entertainment opportunities.
August 17, 2023
Greater Good: The Science of The Meaningful Life
How we talk with kids about prejudice matters
Co-author and psychology professor Lisa Kiang comments on holding brave, intentional, caring, children-led conversations. “Recent years have seen more and more researchers hard at work trying to figure out how we can best support communities in having courageous conversations.…Warmth and support are the backbone of any effective conversation about race.”
August 16, 2023
Quartz
Less than 1% of Americans in dirty-energy jobs have transitioned to green jobs
Transitioning the US to a low-carbon economy is a great undertaking, and jobs related to electric vehicles are driving the transition. “The oncoming manufacturing of the battery plants and EV plants, I think it’s going to be really, really important for green workers in the future,” said economics professor Mark Curtis. He is a co-author of the new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research showing the vast majority of workers in dirty jobs switch to another dirty job in the wake of a rapidly warming world.
The findings were covered in outlets nationwide including Bloomberg and MSN.
August 15, 2023
New America
How do Americans lose their homes?
Wake Forest University’s Law Clinic’s estimates that 4% of all property in North Carolina, valued at $2 billion, is held as heirs’ property. However, efforts to document and reform this problem largely remain elusive to study.
August 15, 2023
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Jacqueline Travisano has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Travisano holds an MBA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Nova Southeastern University.
August 14, 2023
Los Angeles Review of Books
On Howard J. Curzer’s “Virtue Ethics for the Real World”
In this book review, philosophy professor Christian Miller writes that “Howard Curzer is to be commended for putting together the virtue-ethical pieces in a way that is novel and more plausible than most of the options currently out there in philosophy. And that makes his book required reading for anyone interested in the subject.”
August 13, 2023