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WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Election denialism’s impact on democracies at home and abroad
Politics professor Peter Siavelis said short-term goals of spreading misinformation play into long-term goals: stoking polarization and objectifying the opposition party. “Then you arrive at a process of zero-sum politics,” he said. “There’s no effort at compromise. And finally, what happens when all this plays out, people will start questioning the rules of the game.”
November 4, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Educators’ group recommends Miller for Forsyth County school board
The state legislature has been slowly passing laws that specifically designate local school board elections as partisan, said politics professor Sara Dahill-Brown. “It’s a trend taking place in other states, and driven largely by conservative legislators who believe that partisan cues will generate a variety of advantages for them in both elections and governance.”
November 4, 2022
The New Yorker
Betting on elections can tell us a lot. Why is It mostly illegal?
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) told PredictIt, one of the most widely followed political forecasting markets, that it would have to shut down after U.S. regulators withdrew permission for the betting service to operate. If traders can’t wager on elections using PredictIt, they will take their business to unregulated crypto exchanges or offshore bookmakers—or find something new to bet on. “The CFTC has been a brick wall,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf. “Where do they think this should be going?”
November 3, 2022
New Hampshire Business Review
New Hampshire county attorneys hold a lot of power, but most run unopposed
Law professor Ronald Wright said more people are starting to challenge – and beat – incumbent prosecutors nationally, at least in larger jurisdictions. “It’s still pretty uncompetitive in smaller places,” he said. “But you know, the trend is a positive one.
November 2, 2022
MarketWatch
Some 75% of surveyed Americans would jump at a ‘green’ job in solar
Roughly 75% of Americans like the idea of a well-paying, secure job in what some have billed the green Industrial Revolution. “Overall, our results suggest that the renewable energy boom will create high-paying job opportunities, especially for low-skilled workers and workers who live in areas with a high share of employment in the oil and gas industry,” economics professor Mark Curtis and Ioana Marinescu, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice wrote in a recent report.
November 1, 2022
The Road to Now
In this podcast, law professor Tanya Marsh, one of the foremost experts on mortuary law and the history of cemeteries in the United States, breaks down the origins, legal peculiarities and cultural specificities of the American death care system, and how recent developments in the industry are leading many of us to reimagine the afterlife of our physical remains.
October 31, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Concerts, exhibits and other events
Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Wake Forest Choir Director Christopher Gilliam, presented a concert featuring “Requiem,” by Composer-in-Residence Dan Locklair. Music professors Bryon Grohman and Elizabeth Pacheco Rose performed as vocal soloists. Locklair’s “Requiem” is quickly becoming a staple of the international choral repertoire.
October 30, 2022
ANI
Experts draw lessons learned from Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned in July this year, as his country faced economic ruin and civil unrest. Politics professor Neil DeVotta discussed the proximate causes of the crisis facing Sri Lanka, juxtaposing that with mal-governance over the decades and linking the island’s current problems with its ethnocentric trajectory.
October 27, 2022
Buddhist Door
“Lived karma: Situating interbeing in society” conference
Visiting history professor Daniel Burton-Rose in his presentation “Collective Karma and Concealed Virtue,” examined how the Peng family employed a wide variety of interpretative strategies, including reformulating karma as concealed virtue, to justify and strengthen the Peng family’s social standing
October 27, 2022
Triad Business Journal
Power Player 2022: Susan Wente, Wake Forest University president
It’s been a busy first 15 months at Wake Forest for Wente, who took over as the school’s 14th president and first woman president in July 2021. Wente has named a new provost (Michele Gillespie) and hired new deans for the schools of medicine (Dr. Ebony Boulware) and business (Annette Ranft) and will soon be naming a new law school dean.
October 27, 2022
New York Social Diary
No holds barred: The big “return”
Psychology professor Christian Waugh, maintains that “anxiety and anticipation are sister emotions. Think about when you’re getting married or having a kid — it’s a jumble of both.” His directions are “when you reappraise anxious things as exciting, it makes you feel better.”
October 27, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Forsyth commissioners approve ‘uncertain’ fix for erosion problem
Smith Reynolds Airport will seek a state grant to cover most of the cost to stabilize a section of Brushy Fork Creek where extreme erosion has eaten away at property in an adjacent neighborhood. Wake Forest engineering students are studying the site as part of a senior design project to determine how much of the creek erosion is linked to the loss of trees, said engineering professor Courtney Di Vittorio, who specializes in water manageme
October 27, 2022