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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
Winston-Salem Journal
For more than two decades, Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University have collaborated to host events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. One of those is the annual “Building the Dream” awards. Six individuals were recognized this year. Wake Forest award winners are Demi McCoy, creative program manager with the divinity school and students Gah’ques Ligons, Janeel Black and Nick Aime. Winston-Salem State University award winners: Student, Treshone Weeks; and faculty, John Williams.
January 28, 2023
South Africa Today
The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all
“A host of studies have confirmed that, despite climate-friendly claims of sustainability by the forestry industry and by national governments, wood pellets are less energy-dense than coal, and thus produce more greenhouse gas emissions to generate the same amount of energy,” writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
January 27, 2023
Yes! Weekly
RiverRun to offer free screening of “Just Mercy”
RiverRun International Film Festival will screen “Just Mercy,” based on the book by Bryan Stevenson, on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. at Hanes Auditorium, located in the Elberson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Salem Academy and College. The screening is being presented in partnership with Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum, which is presenting Bryan Stevenson in person on Thursday, February 23 at Wait Chapel.
January 27, 2023
Business Insider
Plan to debut AI ‘robot lawyer’ in courtroom is on ice
Giving legal advice, especially in court, can be deemed the “unauthorized practice of law,” a violation that some states consider a crime, said Ellen Murphy, a professor of practice at the Wake Forest law school. “We’re seeing some reform in regulations around the unauthorized practice of law, and we’re becoming less rigid,” said Murphy. “But are they going to extend that to non-humans?”
January 26, 2023
BuzzFeed News
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