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Coffins are out. Sending your ashes to space is in
The funeral industry is increasingly led by consumers and less dictated by customs. Law professor Tanya Marsh makes a similar argument. “Baby boomers are insisting upon more control over their funeral and disposition so that their choices after death match their values in life,” she writes.
January 26, 2023
Triad Business Journal
WFU receives $30M grant from the Lilly Endowment to create national network for character education
Wake Forest University has received a $30.7 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to create a national network devoted to educating character in higher education. The five-year grant will support the programming and research at the university’s Program for Leadership and Character, as well as extend the impact of the work by helping public and private universities develop their own character education initiatives through the administration of grants by Wake Forest.
January 26, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
Medicaid expansion? If this US House bill passes, Guilford County could go it alone
“During the last two years, Congress enacted measures to give states extra incentives to expand Medicaid,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Congress also considered, but failed, to enact some measures that would provide direct coverage to persons who would be eligible for Medicaid expansion in states that have declined to take that step.”
January 26, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
This group’s goal is to make ‘Greensboro better for LGBTQ people’
In 2012, the Wake Forest University Film Project received $3,000 to help finish “Love in the Overlap,” a documentary about Ellen “Lennie” Gerber and Pearl Berlin, who were community activists, longtime partners and Guilford County residents. The women married at Beth David Synagogue in 2013 once same-sex couples were allowed to do so.
January 26, 2023
Forbes
Wake Forest University receives $30 million Lilly Grant for character education
Wake Forest University has announced that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded it a five-year $30.7 million grant to support the university’s emphasis on the study of character and also create a national higher education network focused on educating character. The grant will advance the work of Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character, which was established in 2017 and has become a leading center for research and teaching on character development and for infusing it into its curriculum.
January 25, 2023
Forbes
Trust your gut to TikTok? Not so fast warn experts
When it comes to staying fit and healthy, they say don’t trust your gut and certainly don’t trust everything posted on TikTok. “We are living in a time where trust in traditional sources of medical information is fragile and people are voyaging into the modern-day Wild West of social media-sourced healing,” said Allison Forti, teaching professor and associate director of Wake Forest’s online counseling program. “To understand whether or not taking medical advice from TikTok is safe, we first have to understand why people are engaging in this trend.”
January 24, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Innovation Quarter creates new leadership role to develop Winston-Salem’s life science industry
Innovation Quarter is creating a new leadership role to work with Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. to develop the city’s life sciences industry as it looks to become a global hub of regenerative medicine and a leader in biotechnology and clinical trials. Isaac Perry has been named the head of biotech and life sciences ecosystem development at Innovation Quarter.
January 24, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Innovation Quarter names head of biotech economic development unit
Innovation Quarter officials announced that Isaac Perry has been hired as head of its Biotech and Life Science Ecosystem Development program. “Isaac will serve as a bridge between collaborators, external partners and life sciences companies and concentrate all of those efforts into attracting tenants, partners and growing our innovation ecosystem,” said Terry Hales, executive vice chief academic officer in administration, for Wake Forest University.
January 24, 2023
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist will study health effects of Winston Weaver Fire
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is recruiting participants for a study examining the health impacts of the Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire, which forced mass evacuations in Winston-Salem nearly one year ago. The study was prompted by concerns from residents about the fire’s physical and emotional health effects. Wake Forest engineering faculty and students will look at the quality of the air, water and soil within a two-mile radius of the plant.
January 23, 2023
KMGH-TV (Denver, CO)
More than 1.5 billion people to celebrate the Lunar New Year
According to the Timothy S. Y. Lam museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest, the holiday has a history of about 3,500 years. The holiday is full of stories and myths. During the Tang, Song, and Qing dynasties, the festival became more of what it looks like today with firecrackers and entertainment. Each year, the date of the holiday depends on the lunar calendar.
January 19, 2023
WBTV-TV (Charlotte, NC)
Ground broken for ‘The Pearl’ innovation district
A huge project in midtown Charlotte is underway. It’s for the future of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and “The Pearl” innovation district. “With an additional medical school campus, we will be able to provide training to even more students, many of whom come from diverse backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine as we educate and prepare the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.
January 17, 2023
Local Today
India’s major role in recovering from Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis
Sri Lanka has announced spending cuts including cutting its military by a third to 1.35k by next year in a bid to recover from its worst economic crisis on record. Neil DeVotta, professor of politics and international affairs, told SCMP that the “worst foreign policy that Sri Lanka can pursue is the one that threatens India.”
January 17, 2023