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RiverRun presents free screening of award-winning Holocaust drama
The RiverRun International Film Festival will present a free screening of “Remember This” at 7 p.m. on March 2 at Marketplace Cinemas. A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring Barry Trachtenberg, the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, where he teaches classes on the Nazi Holocaust and Jewish responses to it, as well as classes on the history of Zionism, American Jewry, and other topics related to the modern Jewish past.
February 22, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Medical marijuana bill advances in NC Senate after significant changes
Potential opposition from House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and House majority leader John Bell IV, R-Johnston, could derail the vote during the current session, said politics professor John Dinan. “At this point, we have to rely on the comments of Moore and Bell, who have cast significant doubt on plans to consider medical marijuana legalization.”
February 21, 2023
Inside Higher Ed
Teaching students to think beyond themselves
Explicitly teaching character in college? Data from Wake Forest University show that character education helps students develop virtues and think beyond themselves. It’s not a new idea, but it’s not widespread. Now the Lilly Endowment is giving Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character $31 million over five years to expand—including by helping build a network of character education programs across academe.
February 20, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Great Decisions: “China and the U.S.”
On March 16, Wake Forest University Department of Politics and International Affairs will host a lecture and discussion with professor Wei-chin Lee on “China and the U.S.” The talk will look at how the U.S. will engage with a China that is increasingly seeking to expand its sphere of influence.
February 20, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
The National Science Foundation awarded the 2023 NSF Early CAREER Award to Elham Ghadiri who teaches inorganic chemistry at Wake Forest University and recently began a new course that focuses on nanochemistry in energy and medicine.
February 19, 2023
Voice of America (VOA)
University classes on pseudoscience, conspiracies
Communication professor Jarrod Atchison said the internet has affected the spread of false claims, and many colleges now offer classes centering on misinformation. Rather than relying on a few experts, conspiracy movements can now get thousands of people to join in the building of the beliefs. “It’s so much more participatory because anybody can get credibility in that community if they have a creative interpretation of what’s being put out into the world.”
February 18, 2023
CBS News
Now that pandemic aid has vanished, bankruptcies are on the rise
There’s one silver lining to increased bankruptcies – they could bring rise to the next big, successful company, said Steve Nickles, law professor and expert in bankruptcy. “Businesses go out, there’s a hole in the market, so there’s an opportunity. That sounds crass, I know, but it’s the truth. Bankruptcies leave gaps for entrepreneurial.”
February 17, 2023
North Jersey Media Group
Against all odds, this Black NJ lawyer helped ignite the civil rights movement
Virtually overnight, the Garden State went from a backwater to a progressive exemplar of social justice. Since then, only two other states — Connecticut and Hawaii — have taken similar steps to include anti-segregation clauses in their constitutions, according to John Dinan, a professor of politics and expert on state constitutions.
February 17, 2023
Nature
Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy
In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. José Luis Marcelo Pena, biology professor and member of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, co-authored this article.
February 17, 2023
NPR
Former EPA official weighs in on Ohio derailment response and concerns
“The EPA appears to have used every monitoring technology available to it – high-tech airplanes, mobile monitors, stationary monitors – to get data. It’s very understandable, though, how that’s not necessarily reassuring to the public. It reports information in terms of chemicals and concentrations, which is important for risk management, but it doesn’t necessarily address anxiety,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University.
February 16, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Chemistry professor Elham Ghadiri awarded $650,000 NSF grant for work with lasers in clean energy
A Wake Forest University professor has received a 2023 National Science Foundation Early Career Award for a $650,000 grant to fund laser research with potential applications in clean energy technologies. Elham Ghadiri, an assistant professor of chemistry at Wake Forest, will use the five-year grant to research new laser techniques to discover and improve solar energy conversion devices that could help mitigate climate change.
February 16, 2023
Yes! Weekly
WFU Face to Face will Host Social Justice Activist Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, bestselling author and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson will join the Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation with Wake Forest University Vice President of Campus Life Shea Kidd Brown on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel.
February 15, 2023