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Winston-Salem Journal
Former Wake Forest theater professor Harold Tedford dies at 88.
Professor Harold Tedford taught theater at Wake Forest for more than 30 years and directed over 40 plays. He took hundreds of students to New York and London to immerse them in theater. He also made his students his family, Wake Forest alumni said this past week as they reflected on the passing of a man who played such a big role in their lives.
October 30, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
40-Plus Stage Co. to present local playwright’s ‘Better Days’
Theatre professor Sharon Andrews has been part of the preparation of the new script. “I think of ‘Better Days’ as a romantic drama, a love story. It offers a smart and compassionate look into a relationship between two complicated men navigating issues of love and trust,” Andrews said. “The play is also tender and funny, and the playwright is brilliant at writing naturalist dialogue.”
October 30, 2021
The Washington Post
Ahmaud Arbery’s killing in Georgia puts an unusually bright spotlight on prosecutor accountability
“Incumbent prosecutors who run for reelection win their races at a higher rate than state legislators, at a higher rate than mayors, than governors,” said law professor Ronald Wright, who has studied the issue. “If an incumbent wants to return to office, normally they can.”
October 29, 2021
Coastal Review Online
UNCW, Coastal Land Trust among EEG grant recipients
Wake Forest will receive $250,000 to develop a low-cost lake water quality monitoring system using drones and satellite data in conjunction with North Carolina Central and North Carolina A&T State Universities.
October 29, 2021
The Delaware County Daily Times
From the ground up: Highlighting the humble pokeberry plant
Researchers at Wake Forest have discovered that a dye derived from pokeberries doubles the efficiency of fibers used in solar cells to absorb solar energy.
October 28, 2021
Fortune
4 potential pitfalls lie ahead for OSHA’s vaccine mandate
That’s one of a host of details that will hopefully be addressed by OSHA’s rule, but generally, the agency requires “good faith compliance” by employers, said law professor Sidney Shapiro.
October 27, 2021
Well+Good
How Hollywood thrillers help me through IVF treatment
“People going through a hard time in life may be drawn to thrillers to cope,” said counseling professor Allison. Forti. “For some highly sensitive or empathic people, watching any stressful media can actually cause psychological distress. The sympathetic nervous system activates, and the body gears up to fight or flee.”
October 27, 2021
Knowable Magazine
Prey tell: How moths elude bats
Biology professor William Conner and his team visualized bat-tiger moth interactions with high-speed infrared videography They found that bats quickly learned to associate moth-clicking with a bad taste, and thereafter avoid eating them.
October 26, 2021
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