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National Civil Justice Institute announces Civil Justice Scholarship Award Winners
The Institute recognized with High Distinction law professors Jonathan Cardi and Gregory Parks for their article, “Do Black Injuries Matter?: Implicit Bias and Jury Decision Making in Tort Cases.” After conducting one of the first comprehensive experimental examinations of how race affects judgments on personal injuries, the authors found that the dollar awards for the injuries suffered by black plaintiffs in hypothetical cases were lower than awards for the same injuries experienced by white plaintiffs.
December 28, 2022
The Dallas Morning News
Experts doubt size of Texas’ illegal sports betting market
In the push to legalize mobile sports betting in Texas, a powerful pro-gambling group says Texans spend a whopping $8.7 billion annually on illegal wagers. “By definition, if you’re studying an illegal market, it’s hard to know the market’s size,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf, who has studied the sports betting industry.
December 27, 2022
East Asia Forum
The past year’s crisis will weigh on Sri Lanka for years to come
Sri Lanka’s economy contracted by 9.2% in 2022. It is slated to contract another 4.2% in 2023. The upshot is that Sri Lanka will have lost nearly a decade of growth by the time it overcomes this economic crisis. The worst may be yet to come, writes politics and international affairs professor Neil DeVotta.
December 27, 2022
South Africa Today
Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry
Australia became the first major economy worldwide to reverse itself on its renewable classification for woody biomass burned to make energy. Under the nation’s new policy, wood harvested from native forests and burned to produce energy cannot be classified as a renewable energy source, writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
December 25, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
The Wake Forest University Center for the Study of Capitalism has announced that Mark Brucker will join the executive advisory committee. Brucker is the chief risk officer for consumer and community banking at JPMorgan Chase and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wake Forest University.
December 25, 2022
Modern Diplomacy
Russia with an anti-Western confrontation approach goes after African leaders
In an article published in Foreign Affairs, politics professor and China-Africa relations expert Lina Benabdallah, noted that Beijing began to invest in Africa as part of a project called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By 2021, 39 African countries had joined the BRI. “When Beijing approaches negotiations with African countries, it is looking to them as partners with whom it can expand business opportunities, rather than as charity cases,” she said.
December 24, 2022
Marketing Podcast Network: Uncorking a Story
Getting weird, with Eric G. Wilson
Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English Eric Wilson teaches creative writing and British Romantic poetry. He recently joined the Uncorking a Story podcast to talk about his career and latest book, “How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life.”
December 23, 2022
Mongabay
The Netherlands decides to stop paying subsidies to untruthful biomass firms
Activists have pressed hard for years to put a biomass discussion on the agenda at annual UN climate summits, to no avail, but are encouraged by events in The Netherlands and Australia. They say they remain hopeful that actions by policymakers will soon match growing public opposition to using forest wood for energy in a climate crisis, writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
December 23, 2022
Nature
Discovery of endogenous nitroxyl as a new redox player in Arabidopsis thaliana
Nitroxyl (HNO) is the one-electron reduced and protonated congener of nitric oxide (•NO), owning a distinct chemical profile. Based on real-time detection, we demonstrate that HNO is endogenously formed in Arabidopsis.
December 23, 2022
The Central Virginian
Fewer gifts this year? Give kids more love
Parents hit hard by the struggling economy might wonder how to explain to their children why there aren’t as many presents under the tree this year. “The problem is, we often express love through gifts,” said psychology professor Christy Buchanan, who studies parent-child relationships and teaches courses on effective parent-child relations. “We worry they won’t feel loved if we don’t provide material things.”
December 22, 2022
Atlantic Council
China-Global South Relations with Lina Benabdallah
Key takeaways in this podcast with politics professor Lina Benabdallah include an overview of China’s influence on the Global South, the different perspectives of China between Western and Global South countries, and the position of Africans in U.S.-China competition
December 21, 2022
Yes! Weekly
Literary Bound: Friends make it their mission to give new life to old books
What started off as a creative Christmas gift has grown into an enterprise between friends binding them, and their customers’ love of books, together. Diana Goldstein and Rosalind Tedford met at Wake Forest University where they were undergraduate roommates. Tedford was born and raised in Winston-Salem and works at the University’s library as a research librarian.
December 21, 2022