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Wake Forest News
Civil Rights drama to engage Winston-Salem local community in retelling the story of Selma
A $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant will help support a collaboration between Wake Forest University and Loire Valley Theater Festival to bring the civil rights musical drama, “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom,” to Wake Forest in October 2023. The play tells the story of the young people in Selma, Alabama, who risked their lives in 1965 to win the right to vote for African Americans. Joshuah Brian Campbell, director of music and arts at the Wake Forest School of Divinity and director of the University Gospel Choir, is the music director for the production.
February 2, 2023
Triad Business Journal
WFU’s Center for Entrepreneurship receives national innovation award for teaching method
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University has helped students create startups worthy of “Shark Tank” and Oprah’s Favorite Things – and now it is being recognized for its proprietary teaching method with a national award. The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship awarded the 2023 Excellence in Pedagogical Innovation Award to Wake Forest’s Center for Entrepreneurship for its teaching method called IDEATE.
February 2, 2023
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Lilly Endowment will give $30.7 over five years to Wake Forest University to enhance its Program for Leadership and Character and create a national network dedicated to teaching character within colleges and universities.
February 1, 2023
The Washington Post
In child custody dispute, breastfeeding mom is ordered to use bottle
Meghan Boone, an associate professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law who studies pregnancy and parenting rights, said breastfeeding is just one factor some state courts consider when setting visitation schedules. The idea that only women can care for young children has been discredited because it may be considered sex discrimination by men seeking custody. “You’re not supposed to use the tender years doctrine anymore. If we’re talking about the need for a child to be with mom and not dad, that sounds like tender years.”
February 1, 2023
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