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Five facts to tell your daughter about men
Linda Nielsen, professor of adolescent and educational psychology and author of the book “Between Fathers & Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship,” said fathers have more important lessons to offer their daughters than they might realize.
September 16, 2022
Royal Society of Chemistry
Introduction to the themed collections in memoriam of Prof. Richard T. Williams
This themed collection of papers in memoriam of Prof. Richard T. Williams covers the topics and fields where he had impact during his exceptional career. Richard’s colleagues, students and friends will forever remember his passion for science, his kindness, his generous mentoring spirit, his love of teaching, and his humor.
September 16, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Why does the Wake Forest Demon Deacon sometimes carry a plunger?
The origin of the plunger dates back to Bill Shepherd, a 1960 Wake Forest graduate who performed as the Deacon for three years while he was a student. “He was known at the university and throughout Winston-Salem for his plunger twirling atop the goal posts in the late 1950s,” according to The Little Black Book, a reference book published by Wake Forest about the school’s history.
September 16, 2022
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Wake Forest University expands African American Studies program
It’s been more than a year since the launch of the first-ever African American Studies program at Wake Forest. “Our signature African American Studies program enables our students to really gain a 21st-century liberal arts education to deal with the complexities that we face throughout our world,” said humanities professor and director of the program Corey D. B. Walker.
September 15, 2022
Kansas City Star
‘Whole lot of risk’: MO will vote on convention that could write new state constitution
Missouri voters are practiced at voting to change the state constitution, but this November they could take the first step toward blowing it all up. The last state constitutional convention took place in Louisiana in 1992, John Dinan, a professor at Wake Forest and one of the foremost experts on state constitutions, wrote in a July article in the Journal of Policy History. Voters fear opening a “Pandora’s box.”
September 14, 2022
WTVR-TV (Richmond, VA)
Warning issued to avoid fish, contact with river water near coal ash spill
Researchers from Wake Forest University who used cameras on an unmanned aerial aircraft to create a 3-D image of the spill said that as many as 35 million gallons of arsenic-contaminated water and ash may have made its way into the river.
September 14, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Novant aims for ‘net-zero’ emissions by 2050
“There is a larger, even more ominous threat facing the medical community: our changing climate,” writes Stan Meiburg, a former deputy administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Suzanne Lazorick a professor of pediatrics and public health at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. “There is no vaccine for this threat, and responding to it will require coordinated local and global action to a degree thus far unseen in human history.”
September 14, 2022
WMAR-TV (Baltimore, MD)
New Public Health AmeriCorps program looks to tackle health care gap
Marianne Magjuka coordinates the program and is an assistant dean of students and the executive director of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement at Wake Forest. “This is the first year of funding for Public Health AmeriCorps,” she said. “AmeriCorps members will be doing all kinds of different things. They’ll be doing patient navigation services and translation services. They’ll also be working with patients to do follow-up care.”
September 13, 2022
BroadwayWorld.com
NC Black Rep & WFU announce winning playwrights of ‘Finding Holy Ground’ Commissions
The North Carolina Black Repertory Company and Wake Forest University have announced JuCoby Johnson and Eljon Wardally as winning playwrights of the Finding Holy Ground playwrighting commissions. Both playwrights will receive a $10,000 commission, developmental workshops, and fully staged productions of their plays.
This announcement was also covered by the Winston-Salem Journal.
September 13, 2022
ArtDaily Newspaper
Cristin Tierney Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Jorge Tacla
Tacla’s work is held in, among others, the collections of Tufts University, Wake Forest University, and High Museum of Art. Wake Forest students purchased the work by Jorge Tacla for the University’s Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art during their 2021 Art Buying Experience.
September 12, 2022
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News ranks Wake Forest among top 30 universities
In U.S. News and World Report’s 2022-23 Best Colleges, Wake Forest ranked among the top 30 national universities for the 27th consecutive year. The University was 29th overall among 443 national universities and was ranked 21st for undergraduate teaching. “Wake Forest is among the nation’s best at delivering on the promise of an exceptional education, and I am pleased to see that commitment to excellence recognized,” said President Susan R. Wente. “We know our position in the rankings is anchored by the extraordinary teaching and scholarship of our faculty across the University, and the academic success of the talented students Wake Forest enrolls.
September 12, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Queen Elizabeth II was symbol of national unity, Wake Forest professor says
Queen Elizabeth II was a symbol of British national unity and purpose and her loss will be keenly felt throughout the world, said politics professor Mark Vail. “Her death will represent a challenge for Britain to see if the monarchy, which has been tarnished by scandal, can regain some of its lost luster.”
September 9, 2022