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Democracy Paradox
Ukraine: A boon or bust for U.S. power? It’s complicated
“Despite Ukraine’s remarkable success, NATO’s increased unity and Russia’s poor military performance, the answer to that question is more complicated than some might think. Especially in a war’s early stages, assessing the impact on the power of a participating or associated state, like the United States in Ukraine today, can be tricky business,” writes politics professor Will Walldorf, author of the book “To Shape Our World for Good.”
March 10, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest not taking growth for granted, even as smaller schools battle to recover
The past few years have seen continuing growth in enrollment and programming for most private colleges and universities in the Triad, despite the pressures associated with the pandemic. Wake Forest University, Elon University and High Point University each report undergraduate enrollment growth from 2019 through 2022. Wake Forest reports undergrad enrollment of 5,477 in 2022, up 3.6% from 5,287 in 2019. Wake Forest’s Vice President for Enrollment Eric Maguire said, “Many of the hallmarks of a Wake Forest education—first-rate academic opportunities, strong faculty and student interaction, a supportive campus community, and engaging ACC athletics — are just as relevant, if not more so, as we emerge from Covid.”
March 10, 2023
Psychology Today
Knowing it from shinola: An academic looks at ‘malarkey’
Psychology professor John V. Petrocelli cites Mao’s war on sparrows in his new book, “The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullsh*t,” as an example of how bullsh*t can be not only an annoyance but downright dangerous as well. He has developed a bullsh*t rating scale (the “Bullsh*t Flies Index,” since flies are attracted to bovine droppings) – rating bullsh*t on a scale of one to three flies.
March 9, 2023
POLITICO Pro
Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, comments in this story on how the EPA’s goal to hire hundreds more employees to advance President Joe Biden’s signature climate and infrastructure laws missed its own targets.
March 8, 2023
Yes! Weekly
Winner of international scenic design competition to stage WFU ‘Silent Sky’
In 2021 — after being delayed by a global pandemic — the Department of Theatre and Dance launched an international scenic design competition to gather creative approaches from designers outside the United States. After receiving concepts from set designers representing 10 countries, an international panel of judges convened to select the winner — Egyptian stage designer Héba Elkomy.
March 8, 2023
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
President Jimmy Carter’s dream to unite Baptists to serve the community together
In 2009, Bill Leonard, the founding dean of Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity, organized former President Jimmy Carter’s visit to Wake Forest University. The event was in response to Carter’s new organization, the New Baptist Covenant. “He really is a person who personified the best of the Christian witness not simply in the south, but in the world, globally,” Leonard said.
March 7, 2023
The Chronicle of Higher Education
ChatGPT is upending campus practices. Colleges are rushing to respond
It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT appeared on the scene just three months ago, promising to transform how we write. Higher education, rarely quick about anything, is still trying to comprehend the scope of its likely impact on teaching — and how it should respond. Director of Wake Forest’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching Betsy Barre said, “If it gives us the opportunity to free up time to do things that matter, like building relationships with students,…it could be a good thing.”
March 6, 2023
Phys.org
New framework on honest behavior suggests it is a process that goes beyond not lying
Based on the findings in an article by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and Wake Forest University, there is a narrow focus on honest content, which largely reduces the study of honesty to lying versus truth-telling, is problematic and connected to modern day societal challenges such as the spread of misinformation.
March 6, 2023
Religion News Service
Baptist Joint Committee gains faith and justice center
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is acquiring the Center for Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation in a move its leaders say will help them broaden efforts to support a more universal range of religious freedoms in the country. Interim School of Divinity Dean Corey D.B. Walker, one of those board members, said he expects the new arrangement will lead to expanding work by the center that will include religious and secular people and Jewish and Muslim groups as well as other Christian organizations.
March 6, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
WFU receives $3M to study the connection between dance and brain health
The five-year study, called IGROOVE, is meant to further research how dance can impact fitness, memory, and brain health. “What dance provides is not only an artistic expression but a physical activity that brings people together in meaningful ways,” said Vice Provost for the Arts and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Christina Soriano. “Dance is an activity that is very cognitively challenging when you think about what you have to do and coordinating the body physically, and also responding, often quickly, to movement prompts.”
March 3, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Group continues work to preserve 10,000 graves at Winston-Salem’s Odd Fellows Cemetery
Terry Brock, the director of the Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Research Group at Wake Forest University, is leading a research project at the cemetery. Brock also is the manager of archaeology and research at the Wake Forest Historical Museum and a research associate with the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Program at WFU. “Most importantly, the research will help to restore the humanity and dignity to the thousands of people who were buried in the cemetery,” Brock said.
March 3, 2023
Lifewire
Conversational AI like ChatGPT may soon have a face that looks human
New software is enabling conversational AI to look and act more like humans. Some observers warn that human-like AI could be deceptive. “Once it becomes difficult to distinguish a Zoom call with a human from a chat session with an AI bot, a lot of things will change,” physics professor Jed Macosko told Lifewire in an e-mail. “Scams are becoming very tempting. People will enjoy the AI friends they find online and use their free time to engage in long conversations.”
March 2, 2023