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Everyone has unconscious biases — here’s how to identify, address, and overcome them
Left unchecked, unconscious biases can lead to explicit bias, said counseling professor Nathaniel Ivers. “There is a correlation between implicit bias and explicit bias. Unfavorable or overly favorable unconscious beliefs or attitudes about one group may lead to [conscious] unfair treatment of these groups.
March 24, 2022
Yes! Weekly
Let’s celebrate women in arts education
March celebrates both Women’s History Month and Arts in Our Schools Month. Christina Soriano, vice provost of arts and interdisciplinary initiatives and associate professor of dance is highlighted. “I believe we are lifelong learners,” said Soriano. “I serve to facilitate the exchange of knowledge because I am learning from my students at the same time.”
March 23, 2022
The Washington Post
Calling Ukrainian refugees more ‘civilized’ than Syrians requires willful amnesia
Observers speak and write about the conflict in Ukraine in clear examples of willful amnesia. Some prominent figures describe the invasion as a “shock,” as if war on the European continent were a total abnormality. But the idea that Europe has been peaceful since 1945 requires ignoring significant parts of European history, such as the Kosovo War, or the 1992-1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims, or the ongoing violence at European borders, writes politics and international affairs professor Lina Benabdallah in this co-authored opinion piece.
March 22, 2022
Bloomberg Law: Environment
New EPA Chicago boss envisions expansive interagency efforts
Stan Meiburg, director of the Master of Arts in Sustainability Program, praised the idea as a good way for the agency to flex its muscle. But he also said agencies shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of teaming up with their federal partners. “It sounds simple, but working together is hard work. People bring their own histories, organizational routines, and cultures to the conversation. It could take time, but it’s well worth the effort and energy.
March 22, 2022
Triad Business Journal
NIH funding supports 38,000 jobs, $5.8B of economic activity in NC
Among all 50 states, North Carolina is within the top five of NIH funding recipients. This money, which the NIH awards to universities, private companies and other research organizations, supports billions of dollars in economic activity and tens of thousands of jobs. Wake Forest University was the third-largest recipient in North Carolina, receiving almost $125 million.
March 22, 2022
The Zoe Report
The one key sign you’re dating a gaslighter
Gaslighting “is used to avoid shame and the responsibility of poor choices or negative behaviors,” counseling expert Allison Forti, director of the Department of Counseling Online Programs at Wake Forest University. “Someone using gaslighting techniques is seeking to have power and control over their partner and they do this by creating seeds of doubt in their partner’s perception of events, reality, and memories.” Over time, this can chip away at the receiving partner’s identity and self-worth.
March 21, 2022
Mental Health News Radio Network
Ben Coates, a Wake Forest University professor, is investigating the history of economic sanctions in the 20th century. While these measures taken against Russia are unprecedented, such pressure on a country is usually effective 30% of the time.
March 21, 2022
ABC News
State constitutional convention measures stoke partisan fear
“Whereas at one point a constitutional convention was seen as a way to empower the people and overcome challenges that they saw with the operation of government, the people now no longer have trust that constitutional conventions will work out,” said politics professor John Dinan. “There’s significant fear of runaway conventions or opening the Pandora’s box of issues.”
March 20, 2022
The Atlantic
How the Ukraine Crisis led to … nickel hoarding
Americans have found a roundabout way to make some money: hoarding nickels. “Given the experience of the penny, I don’t see us getting rid of the nickel anytime soon,” said economics professor Robert Whaples, who has studied the effects of going penny-le
March 18, 2022
Marketplace
Why aren’t gas prices dropping if oil is getting cheaper?
Haresh Gurnani, a professor of operations and supply chain management, explained that gas stations are not willing to lower prices just because crude oil is cheaper because they can’t anticipate what oil prices will look like in the next few days or weeks. “They would rather take advantage of the consumer getting used to those elevated prices. If there is some predictable reduction in prices, then they can afford to pass on some of their savings to the consumers.”
March 18, 2022
Literary Hub
Telling the stories of the wrongly incarcerated
In this piece, Phoebe Zerwick, director of Wake Forest’s journalism program and author of “Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Daryl Hunt,” recommends other books about justice and the carceral state.
March 17, 2022
South Africa Today
Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies
Despite more than a decade of nonstop work, forest advocates have been stymied in their efforts to reverse European Union policies that encourage the burning of forests to make energy. Now they are testing a new line of attack — using existing statutes and regulations to take their complaint to the EU court system.
March 17, 2022