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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
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Wake Forest debate team makes historic sweep of tournaments
Head coach Justin Green said the keys to winning were a focus on individual students’ motivations, their hard work, and financial support for the program from benefactors Megan and John Medica. “The combination of those three things together – big tent approach, strong institutional support with a big coaching staff, and special students – has really allowed this year to become a phenomenal opportunity for success.”
April 17, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Two Things: The Arby’s at Knollwood is closing, as is North Carolina’s last Sears store
“The company that once began as a remote-order and direct-delivery business has now all but lost the battle for survival to a retail environment that is, once again, becoming remote-order and direct-delivery,” noted marketing professor Roger Beahm.
April 17, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Middle and high school students can discover opportunities for careers in statistics and data science during a free one-day event at Wake Forest University on April 22. Called Florence Nightingale Day, the event will take place from 1 to 4:30 p.m. in Manchester Hall. The goal of the program is to engage kids, promote future career opportunities and celebrate the contributions of women to these fields.
April 15, 2023
Mirage News
Anthropologist collaborates on ape evolution paradigm shift
At Buluk, an ancient fossil site in remote northern Kenya, Wake Forest University paleoanthropologist Ellen Miller uncovered clues about the habitats of apes living there 16 million years ago. Miller, who studies the fossil evidence for primate evolution, is part of a collaborative team of geologists and paleoanthropologists led by Baylor University professor Daniel Peppe. Their work, published in the journal Science this week, documents the earliest evidence for locally abundant C4 grasses in eastern Africa and how grasses and open habitats influenced early ape evolution.
April 14, 2023
E&E News
EPA’s waste office dilemma: Deep pockets, no nominee
Barry Breen, a longtime career official, is the office’s acting assistant administrator. EPA is fortunate to have “a well-qualified career senior executive” on board, according to Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at the agency, including as acting deputy administrator during the Obama administration. “With Barry Breen, you have a very capable public servant,” said Meiburg, now the executive director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University.
April 14, 2023
The Daily Record (Baltimore, MD)
Abortion battle playing out at the state level
The battles over abortion – who can get one, when they can get one – largely shifted from a focus on the U.S. Supreme Court back to state lawmakers and judges in June 2022. That’s when the Supreme Court ruled that there was no federal constitutional guarantee of the right to get an abortion. States, they said, should be making the rules, writes politics professor John Dinan.
April 14, 2023