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Mental health, wellness programs can boost wellbeing on campus
Campuses that are aware and support student mental health and wellbeing can help increase academic performance, retention, and graduation rates. Student wellness centers at Wake Forest and Ohio State have developed models that ensure student wellbeing on multiple levels, including the emotional, physical, social, intellectual and financial dimensions, according to the World Economic Forum.
November 14, 2022
The Globe Echo
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
“America is unique in that guns have always been present, there is wide civilian ownership, and the government hasn’t claimed more of a monopoly on them,” said sociology professor David Yamane, who studies American gun culture.
November 14, 2022
North Carolina Health News
In Charlotte, health care for women only?
Offering a suite of sex-specific specialties in one location is important for capturing female patients who are often pressed for time, said economics professor Tina Marsh Dalton, who studies health policy. “You can just refer a patient down the hall.”
November 14, 2022
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University student selected for Rhodes Scholarship
A Wake Forest philosophy major is one of three college students with North Carolina ties to earn Rhodes scholarships to study at England’s Oxford University. Alice Hauser’s passion for refugee rights has led to her selection as one of 32 U.S. students to be named winners of the prestigious honor.
November 14, 2022
Yes! Weekly
Wake Forest Baptist Church endows scholarship for future School of Divinity students
Wake Forest Baptist Church has established the Wake Forest Baptist Church Scholarship at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. The endowed scholarship is made possible by a $100,000 gift presented to the School of Divinity at the church’s Celebration of Life service.
November 14, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest law clinic helps correct veteran’s military record after nearly 70 years of injustice
Eighteen steps is all it took to alter James Brown’s life. He’d just returned to the front lines in Korea with the U.S. Army’s 45th Infantry Division – one of the Army’s few fully integrated units – after spending 57 days in a military hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds. Brown had noticed what he considered to be a tactical safety issue. As he’d been trained, he followed the chain of command by first approaching his platoon leader to raise his concern.
November 13, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest senior awarded the Rhodes Scholarship
Philosophy and Piano Performance double major and refugee advocate Alice Hauser has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at England’s Oxford University beginning in the fall of 2023. She was among 32 Americans chosen by the Rhodes Trust who were selected on Nov. 12 from among 840 candidates endorsed by 244 different colleges. She is the 15th Wake Forest Rhodes Scholar since 1986. Two other Wake Forest students and fellow scholars, Tal Feldman and Ashley Peake, were also named finalists for the Rhodes.
November 13, 2022
Fox News Channel (National)
Politics professor John Dinan was interviewed on the 2022 midterm elections. His research focuses on state politics and state constitutions. He is the author of several books, including State Constitutional Politics: Governing by Amendment in the American States and The American State Constitutional Tradition, as well as numerous articles on state and federal politics.
November 13, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Internationally renowned author, reporter and columnist Thomas Friedman will join Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation with PBS NewsHour’s Nick Schifrin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Wait Chapel.
November 12, 2022
Glimpse from the Globe
The UN ruled that climate action is needed to protect human rights
The decision now holds governments accountable for protecting their citizens from foreseeable consequences of climate change, according to law professor John Knox, an independent expert on human rights and the environment.
November 11, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Automated license-plate readers may be coming to Winston-Salem
Automated license-plate readers are being used by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Kernersville, Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh and Mooresville as well as the Winston-Salem State University and Wake Forest University police departments, Winston-Salem police said.
November 11, 2022
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
After 70 years, 89-year-old James Brown will finally get the recognition he deserves after fighting in the Korean War. On Friday, the Veterans Legal Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law announced that veteran James Brown will be respectfully honored with the Purple Heart medal. After a year of searching for files and going over his case, Brown’s dishonorable discharge was overturned.
November 11, 2022