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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
Bloomberg Law: Environment
UN environment rights bolster case for global climate litigation
Courts have been “increasingly willing” to rule that environmental harm flies against human rights, and this resolution pulls that trend into a single, overarching right recognized universally, said law professor John Knox. The recognition “is not going to directly change the legal obligations of any State, but it does change the way we think about the issue in a way that can then lead to legal change.”
October 19, 2021
NY Public Radio
Harris-Perry named host and managing editor of The Takeaway
WNYC Studios and PRX announced that Melissa Harris-Perry has been named host and managing editor of The Takeaway, the nationally syndicated public radio news program that airs on more than 300 stations. Harris-Perry has been serving as interim host since July 2021. She will continue teaching at Wake Forest as Maya Angelou Presidential Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs.
October 18, 2021
WXII-TV
Wake Forest University reacts to Colin Powell’s death
“Powell paved the way for many as the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and the nation’s first Black Secretary of State. “That becomes a challenge for us and an opportunity to really ensure that, although Colin Powell was a first in many instances, he will not be the last,” said humanities professor and director of the African American Studies program Corey Walker.
October 18, 2021
WFMY-TV (Greensboro)
Triad universities react to the death of Colin Powell
Wake Forest Board of Trustees Vice Chair and Professor Emeritus of Biology Herman Eure placed the honorary doctor of laws degree graduation hood on Powell in 2004 – the year Powell delivered the University’s commencement address. “I now understood the command presence that a person like this had because, when you walked into a room you commanded the room,” said Eure.
October 18, 2021
South China Morning Post
China, Africa and the 3 years since Xi Jinping promised to rebalance trade
Politics professor Lina Benabdallah comments in this piece on how the aftermath of Covid-19 has pushed a number of indebted African countries into default and trade is still weighted in China’s favor.
October 17, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Finding marketing balance for e-cigarettes will challenge FDA, Reynolds
“While there are notable limitations in what the FDA is allowing, the fact that Reynolds is now permitted to introduce and market these new products opens the door to new revenue opportunities and potential growth, which has heretofore been very limited,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at the School of Business.
October 17, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University to start its 2021-2022 season
Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras will perform a solo concert of works by J.S. Bach, Britten, and Kodály on Oct. 28 at Wake Forest University. The concert is the first of the season for the Secrest Artists Series.
October 16, 2021
Mongabay
Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions
Two new studies released this week conclude that the harvesting of trees to produce wood pellets in the U.S. and burning them for energy overseas is undermining the promised carbon emissions reduction targets urgently needed to slow the rate of global warming and prevent worsening climate change, writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular Mongabay contributor. He will cover the proceedings of COP26 from Glasgow in November.
October 15, 2021
Medscape
High-intensity exercise, not pilates, builds bone in older women
Health and exercise professor Kristen M. Beaver, who was not involved with this research, told Medscape that participant compliance in the study really stands out. “A lot of individuals wouldn’t even consider recommending this type/intensity of exercise to this population, because they are worried it is too risky and/or the uptake will be low,” she said.
October 15, 2021
The Washington Post
The nationwide news blitz about Gabby Petito reveals how Black women are erased from political view.
Gabby Petito’s disappearance and murder set off at least some discussion of its counterpart: a lack of media coverage of missing Black girls and women, writes Julia Jordan-Zachery, a professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest and author of “Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation and Politics.”
October 14, 2021