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Woman’s World
Suffer from knee osteoarthritis? Stay away from this common exercise
Health and exercise science professor Stephen Messier’s recent clinical trial is featured in this article about knee osteoarthritis. The study looked at high-intensity strength training, low-intensity strength training, or no training at all and the effect on knee pain.
September 21, 2021
The Atlantic
Six things to understand about the pandemic now
“The better the vaccine uptake, the scarier this number will seem,” wrote Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, a statistician at Wake Forest. “If you’re trying to decide on getting vaccinated, you don’t want to look at the percentage of sick people who were vaccinated. You want to look at the percentage of people who were vaccinated and got sick.”
September 20, 2021
news.wfu.edu
Class of 2020 Celebrates Commencement on Campus
More than 700 graduates from the Class of 2020 returned to Wake Forest University on Saturday, Sept. 18, to walk across the stage in front of Wait Chapel for a long-awaited, in-person commencement ceremony honoring them on Hearn Plaza. A photo gallery is available here. Video here.
September 18, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Supporters of Happy Hill Cemetery push ahead with their efforts to maintain the burial ground
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Law Community Law and Business Clinic discovered in past years that the church owned a section of the cemetery.
September 18, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
His mural cast Wake Forest’s Demon Deacon as a robber baron
Harry Knabb, the chairman and chief executive of Art for Art’s Sake, said he takes full responsibility for taking down the mural, adding that AFAS officials did not talk to the festival sponsor or Wake Forest about the work. A post on English professor Dean Franco’s Facebook page is included in the story. “Censorship is not the main issue here,” he shared.
September 18, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Judges who struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law made the right decision
“This particular lawsuit,” Dinan said, “is just one of several lawsuits that will continue to work their way through state and federal court systems in coming months and years and that will likely result in a range of legal outcomes depending on which judges and which courts are considering the issue.”
September 18, 2021
Sputnik
U.S. civil rights leader applauds police chokehold ban, urges congress to move on Floyd Act
Law professor Kami Chavis said she continues to hope that communities will be able to reimagine public safety that will truly protect marginalized communities. “I am hopeful and moderately optimistic. There have been changes because of the protests. They are generating data that I would like to see in the next five years or so to see if these measures have taken hold.”
September 17, 2021
Bizwomen – Charlotte Business Journal
Bank boards lag on equal representation
The lack of representation in leadership suggests that while there is success in recruiting diverse talent, it doesn’t translate to retaining or promoting women and minorities in financial services, said Wake Forest business professor Julie Wayne.
September 17, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Gambling bill moved to committee in the North Carolina House
The odds are low that the state House will address SB688 in the current session, said politics professor John Dinan. “There is just so much else on the legislature’s agenda for the rest of 2021, namely the budget and redistricting, that it is much more likely that the sports betting bill would be considered next year.”
September 17, 2021
The Conversation
Philosophy professor Adrian Bardon writes: Is there any hope of depolarizing the issue of COVID-19 vaccination, or trust in science itself? I’d say probably not until leaders in conservative politics, media and religion exert a concerted effort to change the narrative.
September 16, 2021
news.wfu.edu
WFU puts students face-to-face with Malcolm Gladwell
Hundreds of students from Wake Forest and area colleges and high schools enjoyed an hour with journalist and author of “Blink” and “Outliers” Malcolm Gladwell yesterday in Wait Chapel. The student event – a unique opportunity for questions and answers with Gladwell – was held prior to the first in-person Face to Face Speaker Forum since the launch of the signature speaker series.
September 15, 2021
Yahoo Finance
Wake Forest School of Divinity brings faith to the Gilead COMPASS Initiative®
“Part of our excitement about connecting with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative® is this recognition that in the U.S. South, you cannot effectively address HIV and AIDS without thinking about faith communities,” said Rev. Senior Associate Dean Shonda Jones. “Our enterprise for educating is not just for the sake of learning. We are doing the work that we do here at Wake Forest for humanity.”
September 15, 2021