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EPA staff survey: Touch telework and I’m out of here
Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, including as acting deputy administrator during the Obama administration, said collaboration between staff can be smoother in the office. “I think the new normal is going to involve more telework flexibility than was the case before the pandemic,” he said. Meiburg is now the executive director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest.
August 31, 2023
Christian Century
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo’s new book will make readers question the depth of their own commitment to righteousness, writes Chris Burton. Gandolfo, a Catholic theologian who teaches at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, tells the stories of several ecomartyrs—people who were killed because they advocated for kinder stewardship of the earth and its resources—and contextualizes their work theologically.
August 30, 2023
Forbes
Supplementing your college application: Essay advice from college admission leaders
“In our application review, we are looking for students who are intellectually curious and academically accomplished,” said Vice President for Enrollment Eric Maguire. “For quite some time, Wake Forest has invited students to create a top-10 list as one of our optional supplemental questions. The responses to this question show quite a bit of creativity and thoughtfulness.”
August 30, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Carolina Curious: What is a Demon Deacon?
Wake Forest University’s mascot, the Demon Deacon, rides into games on a motorcycle wearing a black and gold tuxedo, and a top hat on his oversized head. For this month’s Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz spoke with an archivist at the University to find out how it came to represent the school.
August 30, 2023
Inter-American Dialogue
Peter Siavelis, professor of politics and international affairs said: “Giorgio Jackson’s resignation represents a major blow to President Gabriel Boric. Even with the resignation, pressure from the right is unlikely to subside, as it has consistently flexed its muscles to derail the president’s agenda. These realities pose formidable obstacles to Boric’s efforts to rebuild public confidence and advance his policy agenda.”
August 29, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Budget stalls lead to more Medicaid expansion delays
North Carolina’s budget has yet to be passed by the General Assembly, and the logjam is leaving Medicaid expansion in the lurch. Mark Hall, who directs the Health Law and Policy Program at Wake Forest, said every month delayed means people are not getting the health services they need. “The expansion of Medicaid that occurred under COVID is rolling back. And that makes it all the more essential to get this expansion in place as soon as possible,” he said.
August 29, 2023
Vox
The latest mass shooting in Jacksonville puts focus on America’s unique, enduring gun problem
What is unique is the US’s expansive view of civilian gun ownership, ingrained in politics, in culture, and in the law since the nation’s founding, and a national political process that has so far proved incapable of changing that norm. “America is unique in that guns have always been present, there is wide civilian ownership, and the government hasn’t claimed more of a monopoly on them,” said sociology professor David Yamane, who studies American gun culture.
August 27, 2023
The Washington Times
Dirty-to-green job transitions ‘exceedingly rare’ despite Biden’s promises to blue-collar workers
President Biden is vowing a prosperous future for union and blue-collar fossil fuel workers thanks to his clean energy agenda, but a new study suggests the promise of a smooth transition could go up in smoke. Less than 1% of those working in “dirty” carbon-intensive industries such as fossil fuels transitioned to green jobs such as solar, wind or electric vehicles from 2020 through 2022, according to a research paper published by the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research. “There are definitely a number of places in the U.S. that if you were to remove the carbon-intensive job option, there would be really big hits to workers,” said economics professor Mark Curtis, co-author of the study.
August 25, 2023
Bloomberg Law: Environment
Top environment enforcement cop aims to meet the climate moment
One possible reason the EPA is focusing on coal ash is that enforcement in that area wasn’t a priority under former President Donald Trump, meaning the problem went unaddressed for years, said Stan Meiburg, executive director at Wake Forest University’s Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.
August 24, 2023
ScienceDaily
A 21st century mining boom across the tropics is degrading rivers
“Our team’s prior work has reported on how gold mining is a problem in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon, by poisoning wildlife and people,” said co-author Miles Silman, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Professor of Conservation Biology, and director of Wake Forest’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA). The new study showing the impact of mining on rivers across the tropics was published in Nature Aug. 23. “While gold mining has a lot of potential to lift people out of poverty, particularly on remote tropical frontiers, the way it is done now comes at a tremendous societal cost from environmental degradation, mercury pollution, and corruption and criminal networks.”
August 23, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest University in top 10 on Forbes’ list of best employers in North Carolina
Wake Forest University has been ranked the eighth-best employer in North Carolina by Forbes magazine. The university fell from its place at the top of the list last year. Forbes, partnered with market research company Statista, surveyed 70,000 anonymous Americans working for businesses with at least 500 employees. The final list – one for each state plus the District of Columbia – ranks the 1,392 employers that received the most recommendations.
August 22, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Political leaders have mixed views about the fourth indictment against former President Donald Trump
John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest University, said that the Georgia indictment against Trump and his allies might be politically significant to Trump. “The Georgia indictments naturally raise questions about whether voters will react any differently to these indictments than to the previous ones,” Dinan said.
August 21, 2023