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Al Jazeera
The cost of speaking out for Palestinian rights
While high-profile figures like Emma Watson and Mark Ruffalo have faced intense backlash for speaking up for the rights of Palestinians, it is mainly academics and college students who face the most retaliation on campuses across the United States and Europe. “It forces students and professors to really self-censor in profound ways,” said Barry Trachtenberg, a historian and professor of Jewish history.
February 25, 2022
Yahoo News
China’s Horn of Africa envoy advances Beijing’s push for peace in strategic and complex region
According to politics and international affairs professor Lina Benabdallah, a specialist in China-Africa relations, Beijing’s interests in the Horn are multiple. “The Horn is a region of growing and overlapping interest to China with a combination of security interests, access to the Indian Ocean, economic and political partnership, geostrategic calculations and so on,” Benabdallah said.
February 24, 2022
Yes! Weekly
The Energy Explorers Program is expanding in 2022 – PEA is meeting the growing demand for this program this year by recruiting and training students at Wake Forest University, Salem College, and Winston-Salem State University to present the curriculum to local schools.
February 24, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Forsyth COVID-19 case count rises slightly. Omicron subvariant surfacing in NC
Wake Forest University officials issued a statement that “a phased approach” would begin March 5 toward lifting the campus mask requirement. “Our decisions regarding campus COVID protocols are influenced by these local public health guidelines, as well as our own campus health data.”
February 24, 2022
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Are masks required? See where each Piedmont Triad university stands
Wake Forest emphasized that anyone who wishes to wear a face mask is still welcome to do so, and faculty and staff can ask others to wear masks in their classrooms, meeting rooms and offices.
February 24, 2022
The Washington Post
Trial in Breonna Taylor killing asks if officer acted with ‘extreme indifference’ to life
Prosecutors, for their part, will probably focus much of their questioning on whether Hankison deviated from his training, said law professor Kami Chavis. “This is not going to satiate the need for justice for [Taylor’s] death,” she said. “But I also don’t think that we should underestimate the impact of a criminal charge for the officer in this case — because those other people, they were harmed.”
February 23, 2022
Yahoo Finance
Windstream CEO helps launch Wake Forest University student ESG competition
ESG@Wake is a student competition hosted by the Wake Forest School of Business. Students from across the university are invited to submit bold ideas to address environmental, social or governance-related challenges at Wake Forest from March 1-25. Finalists chosen across the three areas of focus will present their ideas during ESG Week, March 28-April 1, for a chance to receive a monetary award to implement their solutions.
February 23, 2022
Charlotte Business Journal
Truist Financial completes rebranding process in Charlotte
All of Truist Financial Corp.’s local branches and offices have transitioned to the new branding. Marketing professor Roger Beahm comments on how a name is the most important way customers remember a business.
February 23, 2022
Yahoo News
WFU creates new scholarship for law students of color in honor of alumna Cheslie Kryst
Wake Forest University announced that it has named an annual scholarship in honor of Cheslie Kryst to be awarded to a law student of color.
February 21, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Willie Mae Grace, who helped a generation of Black students at Wake Forest, dies at 96.
In her 26 years at the university, Willie Mae became more than a friendly face to undergraduates away from home for the first time. That was especially true to Black Wake Forest students. She became a confidant, an advocate and a kind voice eager to help new students navigate a strange new community.
February 19, 2022
Free Thoughts
Everyone values honesty, but figuring out just what it entails can be difficult. Philosophy professor Christian Miller discusses what it means to be honest and which features of our environment can push us towards dishonesty.
February 18, 2022
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Paul McCartney to bring ‘Got Back’ tour to Wake Forest University
Iconic singer Paul McCartney will be bringing his 13-city “Got Back” tour to Truist Field at Wake Forest University this spring. It is the only North Carolina date announced for the tour.
February 18, 2022