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Winston-Salem Journal
What does low unemployment mean for Triad’s economy?
“The dominant trend has been that the president’s party loses seats in mid-term elections, and there are very few exceptions to this trend,” said politics professor John Dinan, who is a national expert on state legislatures.
February 5, 2022
The Washington Post
Nicaragua strips universities’ legal status in new attack on dissent
The Government Ministry announced it was canceling operating permits for seven foreign academic programs in Nicaragua, including those associated with Florida International University, Michigan State and Wake Forest University. The immediate impact of that action was not clear, as many of those programs appeared to have stopped functioning years ago. Wake Forest’s property in Nicaragua was sold in 2016.
February 4, 2022
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
The Reynolda House: The history and the future
The Reynolds built Reynolda House as their country estate where they would raise their kids,” said executive director Allison Perkins, “Their land stretched out over 1000 acres into what today holds Wake Forest University and even Graylyn Estate.
February 3, 2022
CNN
‘Abbott Elementary’ has teachers laughing — and relating
Television has had a complicated relationship with teachers, and there are very few shows that show teachers in a positive light. “Abbott,” might be one of the few, said communication professor Mary Dalton who studies the representation of educators in popular culture. “This is the first female teacher character in a comedy who has been portrayed in a positive light, and who is realistic, like a well-rounded person, in a very long time.”
February 2, 2022
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Leading with Heart: Dr. Shea Kidd Brown
From a weary teenager on a university campus to becoming vice president of campus life at Wake Forest, Shea Kidd Brown has been positively impacting the lives of students, faculty, and staff for almost two decades.
February 2, 2022
Refinery29 Australia
Women lying about their age is getting old
Research by sociology professor Catherine Harnois, shows women are significantly more likely to face gender- or age-based discrimination than men of all ages. With that in mind, it’s no wonder women bend the truth.
February 2, 2022
Associated Press
Fire at fertilizer plant may cause explosion, area evacuated
The City of Winston-Salem is asking people within one mile of a raging blaze at a fertilizer plant to evacuate due to the possibility of a large explosion. Wake Forest University, most of which lies just outside the evacuation zone, canceled classes and urged students in dormitories to stay indoors with windows closed.
February 1, 2022
Triad Business Journal
Fertilizer plant fire in Winston-Salem disrupts Wake Forest University
A fire at a fertilizer plant in northwest Winston-Salem disrupted a section of the city Tuesday, including manufacturing facilities, businesses and Wake Forest University. Officials ordered a voluntary evacuation within a mile radius of the fire, with fears of an explosion ongoing, and warn it will likely be in effect till Wednesday night.
February 1, 2022
HistoryNet
African Americans In The Civil War
Parul Escott is the Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest. This article is adapted from his most recent book, “What Shall We Do With the Negro?”: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War.
February 1, 2022
Scientific American
Thousands of tree species remain unknown to science
Though trees are hard to miss, they are also hard to quantify. They are not even always easy to identify. “Their crowns are hundreds of feet up; they’re in between other things; they look like similar [species],” said Miles Silman, a conservation biologist at Wake Forest who was not involved in the new study. “It’s a rare breed of person that sits out in the wild for months on end and looks at every single tree.”
January 31, 2022
Seattle Times
2nd trial in Floyd killing centers on clash of duty, code
“We can’t stop and think it was just Chauvin,” said law professor Kami Chavis. “Typically, within a police department, it’s a small percentage of officers that are going to behave in that way. But when that small group is allowed to go unchecked, you are telegraphing to others what the culture is and that this is tolerated.”
January 30, 2022
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