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Discourse Magazine
Gun ownership as a hedge against the chaos
Sociology professor David Yamane’s research is featured in this piece on the move from sportsman-dominated gun culture to one driven by a desire for self-protection – a shift that began with the rise of crime and social unrest in the ’60s and ’70s. With COVID, race riots and a rising violent crime rate, 2020 turned out to be a watershed, with nearly 23 million guns sold in the U.S.
December 11, 2023
On Point (WBUR-FM)
Chile’s lessons and failures in writing a new constitution
In 2020, Chileans overwhelmingly supported writing a new constitution. In 2022, they overwhelmingly rejected it. This month, they will vote on a different version, but many say it’s worse than what they already have. Politics and international affairs professor Peter Siavelis, who’s studied Chile for more than 30 years, is a guest on On Point. He’s the author of the academic paper “Chile’s Constitutional Chaos,” published in the Journal of Democracy.
December 10, 2023
ArtDaily
“Good Impressions” on view at Reynolda House
“Good Impressions: Portraits Across Three Centuries from Reynolda and Wake Forest” is on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in the Northwest Bedroom Gallery of the historic house through October 27, 2024. “The museum and university are both strengthened by collaborations like this small yet glorious presentation of portraits,” said Allison Perkins, executive director, Reynolda House and Wake Forest University associate provost for Reynolda House & Reynolda Gardens. “More importantly, Wake Forest’s students and Winston-Salem’s community have the privilege of seeing extraordinary works in conversation on our walls.”
December 9, 2023
Baltimore Sun
Investigators plan to exhume the body of ‘The Keepers’ subject Joyce Malecki
Disinterment laws vary from state to state. In Maryland, elected prosecutors call the shots. The laws for disinterring human remains from a gravesite are different in each state, but all follow the standard that the dead have a right “to remain in the place they’re buried,” said law professor Tanya Marsh.
December 8, 2023
South Africa Today
Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly, study shows
Mining ponds typically show up as yellow to brown; this color is associated with high levels of suspended sediment in the water — a marker for gold mining activity, said the study’s coauthor Luis E. Fernández, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, based in Madre de Dios. “We use the color changes in the mining ponds as a proxy for [mining] activity. As mining ceases and ponds are abandoned, the sediment settles, and the degree of yellowness diminishes — a pattern the researchers found in the raided areas following Operation Mercury. Conversely, when it turns back to a cappuccino color, we know it’s being mined again,” Fernández added.
December 8, 2023
Reckon
In this Q&A, Stan Meiburg talks with Reckon about the EPA’s enforcement of its rules. Meiburg was acting deputy administrator for the EPA between 2014 to 2017, capping a 39-year career with the agency. He is currently the executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
December 7, 2023
Booming Encore
Managing anticipation over the holidays
The accumulation of these mini-thrills means you’ll still reap the benefits of looking forward to something, even if it’s not a big-ticket reward, said Christian E. Waugh, a psychology professor at Wake Forest University who studies anticipation. “Plus, with the nearer stuff, there’s more of a sense it’s going to happen for sure,” he said. “You’ve got more control over a small gathering this evening than a vacation in six months.”
December 7, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Manning opts not to run for re-election in US Sixth District under new Republican-drawn maps
The passage of the controversial Republican-drawn congressional map for North Carolina has led Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning to decide not to run for re-election in the Sixth District. The redrawn Sixth makes it “highly unlikely that a Democratic candidate could be competitive,’ said politics professor John Dinan. “So, it is not surprising that Manning isn’t going to run for reelection.
December 7, 2023
WHQR-FM (Wilmington, NC)
Why environmental reporting doesn’t always have two equal sides
Enviva company officials assured critics that wood pellets are mostly made of waste: treetops, limbs, even sawdust. Not true, according to reporting from environmental journalist and professor Justin Catanoso, who also says the science shows wood pellet burning contributes more to the climate crisis than burning coal. After covering climate change-related issues for more than a decade, Catanoso has been chipping away at other Enviva company assertions, including the notion that Enviva only buys wood from areas that will be re-planted.
December 5, 2023
The New York Times
Former coal towns get money for clean-energy factories
Less than a quarter of a percent of workers who left a fossil fuel job in West Virginia moved onto a job in renewable energy, said economics professor Mark Curtis. Fossil fuel workers without a college degree were significantly less likely to find clean energy jobs. “In places like Texas or in the middle of the country where there’s a lot of solar and wind, fossil fuel communities are relatively well positioned to take advantage of renewables. Coal communities generally don’t have that, especially when you think about Appalachia,” Curtis said.
December 5, 2023
Let’s Go Michigan!
How many times do people lie in a day?
Philosophy professor Christian Miller talks about his research that looks at in what circumstances people are liable to let loose a lie.
December 5, 2023
Key Reporter
Product and process with Mark Vail
In this piece, Worrell Chair of Politics and International Affairs Mark Vail shares about teaching and learning. “Students will sometimes ask me, ‘What do you want us to learn in your class?’” Vail said. “I don’t know yet!” “The Latin root of ‘education’ means to draw out. My job is to expose you to different kinds of ideas and perspectives. To introduce you to the process of intellectual self-discovery in a way that you might not come to on your own. To teach you to look at the world in a new way.”
December 1, 2023