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Yes! Weekly
Lam Museum of Anthropology embraces international student realities
A student exhibit, Guī Shù Gǎn: Between Belonging and Isolation in the WFU Chinese Community, was curated by now WFU alumni, Hex Li, who graduated this past spring with a major in sociology and minor in art and anthropology. Li wanted to emphasize that international Chinese students experience isolation when studying abroad, becoming particularly sensitive to ideas of invisibility and connection following the pandemic. Currently, about 10% of the WFU student population is made up of international students.
August 4, 2022
The Wall Street Journal
College essay prompts get absurd. ‘So Where Is Waldo, Really?’
Essays might now carry more weight in the increasingly competitive admissions process since about 72% of schools have already made college entrance exams optional next year, a shift away from standardized tests that accelerated during the pandemic. One of Wake Forest’s questions asks students to give a top 10 list with the theme of their choice.
August 2, 2022
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
State fines Winston Weaver Company for improperly storing ammonium nitrate
Stan Meiburg, a former acting deputy administrator for the EPA who now works at Wake Forest, said properly treating containers is critical to preventing an accident. “The problem with ammonium nitrate is it’s an oxidizer. And you create fires when you supply it with a fuel. Wood is a perfect example of what can be a fuel for an oxidizer like ammonium nitrate.”
August 2, 2022
Greensboro News & Record
Winston-Salem fertilizer plant improperly stored explosive material
“It sounds like the Department of Labor is doing its job,” said Stan Meiburg, who now leads Wake Forest’s graduate program in sustainability. “If the ammonium nitrate was stored in a way that would create risks to its employees — or first responders, as happened in West, Texas — that would be cause for enforcement action independent of the environmental consequences of the fire.”
August 2, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Students pair with Wake Forest faculty to get summer lab experience
“Many of us have hosted high school students in our labs,” said Rebecca Alexander, chemistry professor and director of Wake Downtown, “but they’ve usually been the children of friends of friends, and they tend to be students of privilege. We wanted to change that.” Students with an interest in STEM were identified at schools. Each were paid $1,800 to cover what the students could have earned at a summer job. The program also paid for meals and transportation for students who needed it.
July 31, 2022
Success Magazine
The negative side of positive thinking
“I have always had a rather dark personality, a mixture of melancholy, pessimism and irony,” said Eric Wilson, English professor and author of Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy. Throughout his life, family and friends have implored him to cheer up. He was instructed to smile more and scowl less—and perhaps seek counseling. Friends asked, “Everyone assumed there was something wrong with me.” Wilson says we miss opportunities for wisdom, creativity and growth when we use positive affirmations to stamp out feelings of discontent and sorrow as they naturally occur.
July 31, 2022
Zyri
With crises everywhere, do democracies have an advantage?
“This is an incredibly complicated question, in part because there are so many different ways to assess performance,” politics professor Justin Esarey.
July 29, 2022
St. Vincent Times
Students from Wake Forest University on study tour in SVG
A group of students from Wake Forest University are currently in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Through first-hand experiences and interactions with experts, the Environmental Communications course is designed to blend scholarship and practice.
July 29, 2022
Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
A brutal battle for the American mind
According to former MSNBC host and current Wake Forest professor Melissa Harris-Perry, “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.”
July 29, 2022
Triangle Business Journal
Former President George W. Bush heads to Raleigh
George W. Bush will also sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham to launch Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker forum at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The forum is in its second season.
July 29, 2022
Daily Maverick
Is Sri Lanka’s collapse a harbinger of things to come for South Africa?
“Their insatiable appetite for plunder took a poorly governed country and ruined it,” said politics and international affairs professor Neil Devota. To shore up their power base, they made a number of economically insane decisions, such as slashing taxes, which reduced the government’s tax revenue by 25% and banning non-organic fertilizers.
July 27, 2022
Yes! Weekly
Reynolda House captures American photorealism
Following two years of patience and generosity from the private collectors and institutions that committed to collaborating on the postponed exhibit, the museum now welcomes the public to experience Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism. The exhibition is scheduled to run through December 31 in the museum’s Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery.
July 27, 2022