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HuffPost
How to manage fear around COVID while still saying safe
Since the start of the pandemic, the bulk of messaging about COVID has been extremely fear-based. Ultimately, you want to find meaningful activities you can engage in, with modifications when necessary, that can bring you comfort, joy and solace, said counseling professor Nathaniel Ivers, who specializes in terror management theory.
January 29, 2022
Science Magazine
Illegal gold mines flood Amazon forests with toxic mercury
Los Amigos Conservation Concession might seem like a pristine wilderness. But, according to a new study, the forest is tainted by mercury at levels as high as those found in industrial regions in China. Previous tests found surprisingly low levels in the soils within deforested sites in the Madre de Dios region, said Luis Fernandez, a tropical ecologist and executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, which was involved in the new study.
January 28, 2022
Phys.org
Where mathematics and a social perspective meet data
Community structure, including relationships between and within groups, is foundational to our understanding of the world around us. New research by mathematics and statistics professor Kenneth Berenhaut, along with former postdoctoral fellow Katherine Moore and graduate student Ryan Melvin, sheds new light on some fundamental statistical questions.
January 28, 2022
news.wfu.edu
WFU announces MLK Building the Dream award winners
Wake Forest has announced its 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award winners. Congratulations to faculty and staff winners Danielle Parker Moore, an assistant professor of education and executive director of The Wake Forest Freedom School, and Ashley Hawkins Parham, Wellbeing Program manager. Bea Pearson, a senior history major and Jacob Thomas, a senior biochemistry and molecular biology major, are this year’s student winners. Winners will be recognized on Thursday, Feb. 3.
January 27, 2022
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Triad Holocaust survivors reflect on Holocaust Remembrance Day
“For me and many Jewish people throughout the nation, it’s not just a historic day and a day to remember, but it’s something personal,” said Levi Gurevitz, who’s been a rabbi at Wake Forest for more than two years. “We try to remember it so it doesn’t happen again. And if we don’t remember our history, it’s bound to repeat it.”
January 27, 2022
WNCT-TV (Greenville, NC)
New Wake Forest program teaches students valuable lessons about history, humanity
There’s something new happening at Wake Forest. It’s a new African American Studies program teaching students valuable lessons in history and humanity that they’re already using to make the community around them a better place. “I really enjoy learning material that challenges me as a person, not just intellectually but also my morals and seeing who I am and what my beliefs are,” said sophomore Olivia Snow.
January 27, 2022
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
4 N.C. business schools ranked among nation’s best
Four schools are ranked among the nation’s best business schools in the annual survey from Poets & Quants, a San Francisco-based organization that has since 2014 evaluated the best undergraduate programs. Wake Forest is among them.
January 27, 2022
Black Enterprise
Academic Influence spotlights over 600 Black scholars in 20 disciplines
Who are the top Black scholars in the most popular fields of study? More than 600 outstanding Black academics are featured in this series, covering 20 academic fields. “We want to ensure their achievements are recognized,” said Wake Forest physics professor and academic director of AcademicInfluence.com Jed Macosko.
January 26, 2022
Diversity Woman Magazine
How to deal with microagressions in a group setting
When someone is on the receiving end of a microaggression in the workplace, they can feel demoralized and excluded. In fact, a study by researchers at North Carolina State and Wake Forest Universities found that being subject to microaggressions negatively affects job satisfaction.
January 24, 2022
Psychology Today
Lessons from the Science of Bullsh*t
Psychology professor John Petrocelli, a recognized expert in the science of bullsh*t, is featured in this piece. His experimental studies have shown that people tend to bullsh*t in the face of situations where they have no expertise and when they do not expect to be held accountable for the behavior.
January 23, 2022
Houston Chronicle
Texas gun permit applications peaked in 2020, plummeted in 2021
In June 2020, amid nationwide protests over police brutality and early coronavirus restrictions, nearly 39,000 Texans applied for a gun permit for the first time. But that number fell to just under 5,000 by November 2021. Sociology professor and gun culture expert David Yamane comments in this article.
January 21, 2022
BroadwayWorld.com
WFU and NC Black Rep accepting submissions for ‘Finding Holy Ground’
Wake Forest has received $250,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to commission and produce two original plays to be presented at the 2024 National Black Theatre Festival. Two playwrights will be selected and awarded a $10,000 commission, developmental workshops and fully staged production of their new plays. The project is a collaboration among the WFU School of Divinity, North Carolina Black Repertory Company and Wake the Arts.
January 21, 2022