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Bangor Daily News
Maine prison debate team beats MIT in historic competition
The newly created National Prison Debate League and students from MIT argued whether term limits should be required for justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in front of a virtual audience. “The decision is a 5-0 for the Maine Department of Corrections. Congratulations on an outstanding debate and thank you so much for the opportunity to judge it,” said Jarrod Atchison, director of Wake Forest’s nationally recognized debate team.
October 21, 2022
Triad Business Journal
Innovation ‘special sauce’ to countering losses like headquarters of Truist, Krispy Kreme
The growth and vibrancy in downtown Winston-Salem in the past decade is easy to see. Wake Forest University’s Innovation Quarter put former RJR tobacco buildings to use for a slew of educational facilities and cutting-edge businesses, including several involved in medical technology.
October 21, 2022
North Carolina Rabbit Hole
The 42-year-old donut that will outlast us all
Leadership and Character Program’s Jeremy Markovich riffs on “The Good Place” writer Michaels Schur’s comments at Wake Forest about the founder of Utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham and his demand that, after his death, his body be preserved and put on display at the institution he helped found: University College London.
October 20, 2022
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Forsyth County college students offer free brake light repairs
The Forsyth Technical Community College is partnering with the Wake Forest’s Pro Bono Law Project to host “Brake Light Night.”The Office of Civic and Community Engagement and Legal Aid of North Carolina is also joined in the effort. Students from Forsyth Tech’s Transporation Technology Center programs are volunteering to fix and replace the tail lights of community members for free.
October 20, 2022
The New York Times
Democrats are having trouble holding onto their coalition
Political science professor Betina Wilkinson said that her survey and focus group data “reveal that for some Blacks and Latinxs, social, economic and political opportunities are zero-sum since they feel that their sociopolitical power and struggles are comparable to those of the other minoritized group, that there are limited resources and opportunities and thus that the other group poses a threat to them.”
October 19, 2022
The Africa Report
The Chinese Communist Party as a model for its South African cousins
“In the long term, the objective could be to show developing countries in concrete terms how the Chinese model can be more successful for them and more in line with their experiences, as opposed to the IMF or international institution models,” said politics professor Lina Benabdallah.
October 19, 2022
ScienceDaily
Attack on two fronts leads ocean bacteria to require carbon boost
The types of ocean bacteria known to absorb carbon dioxide from the air require more energy – in the form of carbon – and other resources when they’re simultaneously infected by viruses and face attack from nearby predators, new research has found. Biology professor Sheri Floge is co-senior author of the study.
October 18, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Corey Walker named interim dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Professor Corey Walker has been named the interim dean of Wake Forest’s School of Divinity. Walker will begin his duties Jan. 1. He will continue to serve as professor of humanities and the director of Wake Forest’s African American studies program. “I am deeply honored to serve the School of Divinity and Wake Forest University in this capacity,” Walker said.
October 18, 2022
Associated Press
Clean Water Act at 50: Environmental gains, challenges unmet
Stan Meiburg, director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and a former EPA deputy administrator, favors requiring farms and other runoff sources to bear the costs of the environmental damage they cause if a workable system could be found. “But it’s not clear to me that such a thing exists in the real world,” he said. “I find it unlikely that any legislation any time soon is going to impose wide-scale restrictions on how farmers conduct their activities.”
October 17, 2022
Forbes
Here’s a question – how many lies have you told in the past 24 hours? Got the answer? Now here is a follow-up question. Is your answer higher, lower, or about on par with what you think other people will say about their own lying behavior?
October 17, 2022
Religion News Service
Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary
The Rev. Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard divinity schools, has been named the next president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He will be the first Black president of the seminary, which was founded in 1812, and is to officially begin his new role on Jan. 1, 2023.
October 14, 2022
Triad Business Journal
Winston-Salem business Storage Scholars, founded by WFU alums, makes deal on ‘Shark Tank’
“We are immensely excited and proud of Matt and Sam and their team,” said Betsy Brown, vice president of Winston Starts. “This says a lot about student startups coming out of the Wake Forest entrepreneurship program and the program we have here at Winston Starts helping founders scale and is fantastic exposure for Winston-Salem as a whole.”
October 14, 2022