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Spectrum News Charlotte

Halloween at Wake Forest

As Halloween creeps up on us and most kids prepare to go trick-or-treating Tuesday, other events around the state have been helping kids celebrate the holiday. Project Pumpkin, a student-led fundraiser, has raised more than $5,000 Isabelle Zeidner has been involved with the initiative for three years The money raised goes towards the Wake Forest University Freedom SchoolWake Forest University held its annual Project Pumpkin event and raised more than $5,000.

October 30, 2023

Yes! Weekly

Reynolda announces the Brown Family Greenhouse and Reynolda Welcome Center

Through a generous donation from Malcolm and Patricia Brown, the restoration process will return this architectural gem to its original glory and simultaneously update the functionality and efficiency of the greenhouse with modern control systems. The impact of these improvements will allow greater efficiency in operating the greenhouse while using the spaces for elegant exhibitions of plant species and special seasonal displays and events. The restored greenhouse will reopen as the Brown Family Greenhouse in late spring 2024.

October 30, 2023

Greensboro News & Record

For Guilford, ‘changes are relatively minimal’ in new voting maps

The outlook appears promising for N.C. House and Senate incumbents serving Forsyth and Guilford counties following the passing of the latest Republican-drawn legislative redistricting maps. The adding of Black voters to Lowe’s Senate district in lieu of white voters “is the one complaint I have heard in debate” on the legislative redistricting maps, said politics professor John Dinan, a national expert on state legislatures.

October 30, 2023

Winston-Salem Journal

Business Milestones

Wake Forest is one of 12 institutions earning a 2023 Handshake Career Spark Award in the student engagement category. The award recognizes the University’s Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) for its innovation and dedication to engaging students in career development from Day One.

October 29, 2023

Winston-Salem Journal

Redistricting makes modest precinct shifts for legislators

The outlook appears promising for N.C. House and Senate incumbents serving Forsyth and Guilford counties following the passing of the latest Republican-drawn legislative redistricting maps. The adding of Black voters to Lowe’s Senate district in lieu of white voters “is the one complaint I have heard in debate” on the legislative redistricting maps, said John Dinan, a political science professor who is a national expert on state legislatures.

October 29, 2023

Medium

Gun control in the spotlight

Revenge-seeking males make up 98% of these shooters. Some shooters are White Supremacists, prompting the Justice Department to consider federal hate crime charges. A hate crimes expert at the Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest University School of Law, said, “We’re seeing the confluence of violence, easy access to guns and political rhetoric that does not condemn and often supports violence against minorities.”

October 28, 2023

Marketplace

Who pays to maintain old graves at a cemetery?

Depending on the state, there are statutes that require certain cemeteries to take a portion of the money that they generate from grave site sales and put them into what’s called a perpetual care fund or endowment, explained law professor Tanya Marsh. Cemeteries owned by religious organizations, individuals and families are generally exempt from having to establish an endowment. “In the state of North Carolina, we have about 30,000 cemeteries, and there are only about 100 that are actually regulated by the state and subject to those requirements.”

October 27, 2023

Triad Business Journal

Susan Wente named Power Player 2023

President Susan R. Wente, who took over as the school’s 14th president and first female president in July 2021, has quickly made her mark on the university. She named a new law school dean (Andrew Klein) and a new CFO (Jacqueline Travisano) in 2024 after previously installing a new provost (Michele Gillespie) and new deans for the schools of medicine (Dr. Ebony Boulware) and business (Annette Ranft). Wake announced in August that it would offer early action specifically for first-generation students after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled is affirmative action unconstitutional.

October 27, 2023

Greensboro News & Record

Walker finds he already has a ‘real world’ GOP challenger in new Sixth District

A second Republican primary challenger for the Sixth Congressional District seat has emerged less than 24 hours after Mark Walker abandoned his bid for North Carolina governor to pursue a return to Congress. Politics professor John Dinan said that “there was little indication that Walker had a path to victory in the Republican nomination for governor, and so it makes sense that he would consider running instead for a seat in Congress.”

October 27, 2023

Houston Chronicle

Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth

“An emerging body of empirical research is trying to answer these questions, and some of the findings are surprising. They hold lessons, too – for how to think about the areas of your life where you might be more prone to tell lies, and also about where to be most cautious in trusting what others are saying. As the recent director of The Honesty Project and author of “Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue,” I am especially interested in whether most people tend to be honest or not,” writes philosophy professor Christian Miller in this piece for The Conversation.

October 26, 2023

The Conversation

Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker

“Being intellectually humble – in a way that promotes good thinking – likely involves being both curious and open-minded about new information. Focusing on a single characteristic such as intellectual humility rather than the totality of intellectual character ends up promoting lopsided character development, similar to that of a bodybuilder focusing their efforts on one bicep rather than their whole body,” writes psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme.

October 25, 2023

News24 France

The Lewiston shooting puts a spotlight on the US’s unique gun problem

At least 16 people have been killed, and several dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine — the northern state’s second-largest city. “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 cultu

October 25, 2023