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United Educators
Wake Forest addresses mental health
“We are fortunate to have had leadership buy-in from the very beginning, and it’s been clear how well-being services, programming, and initiatives impact college student retention and help develop the life skills critical for the future leaders we produce,” said James Raper, assistant vice president for health & wellbeing.
October 26, 2021
Triad Business Journal
WFU student creates recovery bra designed for breast cancer patients
Wake Forest senior Leah Wyrick developed a breast cancer recovery bra when she saw the many complications following her mother’s mastectomy and breast reconstructions surgery. Her entrepreneurial spirit kicked in when she took her product idea to the Center for Entrepreneurship’s pitch over pizza event and became the only freshman accepted into the startup lab at Wake Forest. With the help of mentors, she has seen Three Strands Recovery Wear take off.
October 26, 2021
soundcloud.com
Teaching Harriet Jacobs in the Archives Podcast
A discussion with Wake Forest’s Rian Bowie, associate teaching professor of English; Carrie Johnston, digital humanities research designer; Special Collections Librarian Megan Mulder; and Tanya Zanish-Belcher, director of Special Collections and Archives highlights the ways that librarians and faculty can partner in designing assignments. The podcast explores using archival records, particularly bills of sale for enslaved people, to teach Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
A transcript of the podcast is available here.
October 23, 2021
southerntimesafrica.com
Taking stock ahead of Focac 2021
Lina Benabdallah, a specialist in China-Africa relations at Wake Forest, agreed that health and fiscal sustainability would probably dominate the conversation in Dakar. She said more projects, especially megaprojects and deals involving infrastructure for natural resource swaps, were being investigated, scrutinized, and re-evaluated across many African countries.
October 23, 2021
The Daily Dot
Why your brain is wired to think Jordan is better than LeBron
“The thing that the advent of cable in the 1980s did is it gave people the alternative, the ability to fall somebody out of the market,” said media studies professor Phillip Lamar Cunningham. “[It’s] something that I think it’s easy to overlook today because we have so many options. If you so desire, you could watch any team you want at any given time.
October 22, 2021
Triad Business Journal
New to the helm: Susan Wente named Power Player 2021
What makes President Susan Wente a Power Player: As the University’s 14th president and first woman president, Wente succeeded Nathan Hatch, president of the University for 16 years. Prior to joining WFU, Wente served as provost at Vanderbilt University, where she developed the university’s strategic plan and led its Covid-19 pandemic response.
October 22, 2021
Wake Forest News
Two WFU engineering professors get water quality research grant
Wake Forest University assistant professors of engineering Courtney Di Vittorio and Kyana Young, in collaboration with professors at two area institutions, have received a three-year, $250,000 Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) from the Attorney General’s office. The grant and two others were announced Oct. 20 by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein inside the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center on the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro.
The Greensboro News & Record covered this story.
October 20, 2021
Inside Higher Ed
Career centers must support students when goals change
During the pandemic, and outside of it, career centers can best prepare students by providing a defined college-to-career process, identifying their transferable skills and educating them on the market. With these key strategies and essential information, students will be well equipped to navigate their career-related decisions, writes Austin Wechter, associate director of marketing and communications in the Office of Personal and Career Development.
October 20, 2021
STAT
Philanthropist-funded study raises questions about clinical research
To Ana Iltis, director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, one of the biggest issues is that clinical trials are so often billed as a way to access treatment. “That isn’t the primary purpose of research. The primary purpose of research is to produce generalizable knowledge,” she said.
October 20, 2021
E-Commerce Times
The challenge and promise of quantum computing
“Our world is already full of problems that are hard for even the fastest computers — from biological problems like gene expression and protein folding, to simulations of quantum behavior in the nuclear arsenal,” said physics professor David L. Carroll. “We simplify these problems by making unphysical assumptions so that our computers can handle them. That will no longer be necessary in the quantum computing future.”
October 20, 2021
Yes! Weekly
Pandemic and politics: How COVID will impact the campaign trail
“There is no doubt that COVID is one of the top issues on voters’ minds in 2021 and that candidates can be expected to focus to a great degree on discussing the governmental response to COVID and plans for combating COVID,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Education and taxes are among other issues that also rank high in surveys about what voters are focused on.”
October 20, 2021
Vox
Fake rhino horns were supposed to foil poachers. What went wrong?
Economics professor Frederick Chen’s research is referenced in this article on rhino horn poaching. “Economic principles tell us that the availability of synthetic horns can reduce the supply of wild horns — and even drive out wild horn sellers completely from the horn market.”
October 19, 2021