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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Higher education grants or gifts of interest to African Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North, Carolina, has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a model program for engaging scholars and the local community in advancing environmental justice.
February 1, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Winston Cup artifacts at center of sports marketing lawsuit
ITG appears to be looking to capture the nostalgic memories surrounding Winston Cup, particularly in age-restricted sites at racing venues, according to marketing professor Roger Beahm. “While positioned as ‘entertainment,’ this historical messaging from Winston Cup sponsorship can still have some value by appealing on an emotional level with fans who still remember the days of Winston Cup racing.”
February 1, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Beloved professor Ed “Mr. Wake Forest” Wilson turns 100
Ed Wilson, beloved emeritus professor and provost affectionately known as “Mr. Wake Forest” celebrates his 100th birthday Wednesday. The Leaksville, North Carolina, native began classes at Wake Forest as a 16-year-old, graduated at the top of his class, and went off to serve during World War II. Wilson later earned advanced degrees from Harvard before returning to his alma mater where his legendary career began in the 1950s.
February 1, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
Rockingham native “Mr. Wake Forest” turns 100
Wake Forest University’s leaders called for the ringing of the bells at Wait Chapel in celebration of the 100th birthday of Rockingham County native and legendary educator Edwin G. Wilson. Wake Forest Provost Emeritus Wilson is known for having steered the Winston-Salem institution through decades of growth and innovation.
January 31, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
NC Senate bill would give attorney general more oversight over health-care system deals
Law and public health professor Mark Hall said SB16 “aims to give the attorney general more authority to block changes in hospital ownership or control that are contrary to the public’s interest, and more authority to monitor ownership changes for any negative effects on health care costs, quality or accessibility.”
January 30, 2023
The Wall Street Journal
New gun research center funded by firearms executives aims to diversify debate
David Yamane, a Wake Forest sociologist studying American gun culture, said he hoped the center in Wyoming would work to include differing views when holding conferences or producing research. But he worried it might become just a resource for gun-rights advocates to turn to bolster their arguments. “I do feel like it’s going to be a he said-he said or they said-they said situation,” he said of the work the Firearms Research Center will produce compared with that from other academic institutions.
January 29, 2023
Vox
New trends in death: Human composting is now legal in New York and five other states
“I like to refer to green burial and natural organic reduction as neo-traditional,” said law professor Tanya Marsh, author of The Law of Human Remains. “We’re not inventing some radical new way of disposing of human remains.
January 29, 2023
Slate
An extremely common feature of gyms could be threatening the benefits of your workout
Experiencing negative feelings while staring at your reflection in the gym could be explained by something called the theory of objective self-awareness, according to health and exercise science professor Jeff Katula. “We naturally go through this self-evaluative process, whereby the ‘current self’ is compared to the ‘ideal self.’ Since most of us do not live in the ideal self, there’s a gap between the current self and the ideal self, and that gap creates discomfort.”
January 28, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
For more than two decades, Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University have collaborated to host events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. One of those is the annual “Building the Dream” awards. Six individuals were recognized this year. Wake Forest award winners are Demi McCoy, creative program manager with the divinity school and students Gah’ques Ligons, Janeel Black and Nick Aime. Winston-Salem State University award winners: Student, Treshone Weeks; and faculty, John Williams.
January 28, 2023
South Africa Today
The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all
“A host of studies have confirmed that, despite climate-friendly claims of sustainability by the forestry industry and by national governments, wood pellets are less energy-dense than coal, and thus produce more greenhouse gas emissions to generate the same amount of energy,” writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
January 27, 2023
Yes! Weekly
RiverRun to offer free screening of “Just Mercy”
RiverRun International Film Festival will screen “Just Mercy,” based on the book by Bryan Stevenson, on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. at Hanes Auditorium, located in the Elberson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Salem Academy and College. The screening is being presented in partnership with Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, which is presenting Bryan Stevenson in person on Thursday, February 23 at Wait Chapel.
January 27, 2023
Business Insider
Plan to debut AI ‘robot lawyer’ in courtroom is on ice
Giving legal advice, especially in court, can be deemed the “unauthorized practice of law,” a violation that some states consider a crime, said Ellen Murphy, a professor of practice at the Wake Forest law school. “We’re seeing some reform in regulations around the unauthorized practice of law, and we’re becoming less rigid,” said Murphy. “But are they going to extend that to non-humans?”
January 26, 2023