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The New York Times
The Americans most threatened by eviction: Young children
About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk. “We all want to feel that when we go home, we feel safe, we feel comforted, there are positive things happening,” said Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist at Wake Forest who studies housing instability among poor families. “If you get to a place where you can build that, it will create that generational stability.”
October 2, 2023
Bustle
The worst TV teachers of the 21st Century
Much has been written about the negative portrayals of TV teachers, with communication professor Mary M. Dalton telling The Washington Post that 21st-century discussions about education have led to fictional educators who are “burned out, incompetent, unfulfilled, immature, irresponsible, and worse.”
October 2, 2023
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Three African American scholars appointed to Dean positions at universities
Corey D. B. Walker has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walker, who is a professor of the humanities at the university, has served as interim dean for the school since January. Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 2020, he was dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond.
October 2, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Developer spends nearly $11 million to buy land for 500-plus Forsyth subdivision
A combined 310 acres in Forsyth County have been bought for $10.95 million by a High Point residential real-estate developer with plans for a more than 500-home subdivision in the Tanglewood Park area near Clemmons. Engineering professor Courtney Di Vittorio, who specializes in water management, agreed that flood projections are obsolete. “It’s kind of silly to me that we’re not communicating the risks. We need to move past where you’re considered fine on one side of the (floodplain) line and not on the other.”
October 2, 2023
Chicago Tribune Opinion
US should change course in West Africa to avert loss of life
After a brief hiatus following the coup there in late July, the United States has resumed military operations in Niger. Drones and manned aircraft are back at work. U.S. defense officials and training will resume at some point soon as well. None of this is good news. Thirty years ago, 18 U.S. soldiers died and were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in what’s known as the Black Hawk Down incident, writes politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf.
October 1, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Paul McCartney’s live concert in Winston-Salem in 2022 taught the city a thing or two about the need for more parking in the area near the fairgrounds, Joel Coliseum and the stadium where Wake Forest University teams play football, Mayor Allen Joines said Friday. Joines and N.C. Rep. Donny Lambeth jointly announced this week that an appropriation of $35 million in the recently-approved state budget will pay for improvements in the area. Wake Forest President Susan R. Wente said the university is “proud to be a partner in these important commitments to the collective well-being of our community, and to be one of the many reasons people come to visit and fall in love with Winston-Salem.”
October 1, 2023
Science Magazine
Holden Thorp, editor of “Science,” praised Wake Forest’s response to its drop in U.S. News & World Report rankings. “When I read President Susan Wente’s email, it was very calm and said, “This is why this happened for those of you who are interested. Wake Forest is still doing the same things that we were doing before.” I thought that was sensible. Wake Forest had “a very level-headed statement.”
September 30, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Attorneys for two Winston-Salem men who served lengthy prisons sentences for the 2002 murder of NBA star Chris Paul’s grandfather are asking a judge to dismiss their clients’ convictions. “The five young men who were wrongly charged and convicted are victims in a long line of injustice in certain cases in Winston-Salem,” said law professor Mark Rabil, director of Wake Forest’s Innocence and Justice Clinic.
September 30, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Alton Pollard III will return to the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Alton B. Pollard III will rejoin the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity and work as a professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, the university said. Pollard will begin his duties on July 1, 2024.
September 29, 2023
The Lane Report
UK researchers lead multidisciplinary project for next-generation organic semiconductors
A multi-institutional collaboration led by University of Kentucky researchers was one of 37 teams to receive National Science Foundation funding as part of that organization’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future program. The four-year, $1.8 million award engages research collaborators at Wake Forest University and Princeton University and will coordinate with National Institutes of Standards and Technology researchers.
September 28, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Work begins on Phase II of Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem a year late but with 1M extra SF
Construction has begun on the second phase of Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter a year later than initially planned, but the project will also be substantially larger than first planned. When it was announced in 2021, Phase II called for ten buildings, 2.7 million gross square feet of space and 450 residential units. But IQ today announced the second phase will include an additional one million square feet of clinical, lab and office space.
September 28, 2023
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
How important is NC ahead of the 2024 presidential election?
“Presidential candidates are starting to set their eyes on which states will give them a boost in the long run. Face to Face Speaker Forum guest Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian for NBC News, said,”I think it’s hard to argue that there’s no way to the White House if you don’t win North Carolina.” Politics professor John Dinan commented on North Carolina’s newly drawn district maps. “Well, here we are again; we’re redrawing maps in the middle of the decade. The maps will be redrawn for the state House, the state Senate and 14 congressional districts.”
September 28, 2023