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Winston-Salem Journal
Dan Locklair’s new CD includes a Requiem that is written for the living as it honors the dead
Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music Dan Locklair finished his third symphony last year but recently released his first requiem. “Composers rarely ever do more than one requiem in their lifetime,” he said. “You do one requiem, and that’s kind of it. I like to think that maybe I got it right on this one.”
April 9, 2022
The Washington Post
Just how isolated is Russia after Ukraine invasion?
As a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has become isolated. “Biden could sanction all or most of the Russian economy and then threaten anyone who trades with Russian companies with being cut off from the dollar system. I think there are good political reasons why he wouldn’t,” said history professor Ben Coates.
April 8, 2022
Yes! Weekly
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Coming to Wake Forest University
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and multiple Emmy-award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN will join the Face to Face Speaker Forum for an evening of conversation on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Julie A. Freischlag, Chief Executive Officer of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Chief Academic Officer of Atrium Health Enterprise.
April 8, 2022
International Business Times (U.S.)
Russia debt investors in limbo as default risk increases
Russia’s ability to fulfill its debt obligations is in focus after sweeping sanctions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “Bondholders could sue Russia for nonpayment, and perhaps they would try to get courts to attach frozen Russian assets as payment,” said history professor Benjamin Coates who is investigating the history of economic sanctions in the 20th century.
April 7, 2022
WS Chronicle
Garden Party celebrates the life and legacy of Maya Angelou
Dozens of people gathered at Bailey Park last weekend to celebrate Maya Angelou’s birthday. The iconic words of Maya Angelou blared through the speakers at Bailey Park las dozens of people came together to celebrate her birthday and legacy.
April 7, 2022
U.S. News & World Report
Sanctions against Russia are damaging, but more is on the table
“Certainly Russia’s the largest and most integrated economy ever to be hit with sanctions of this magnitude,” adds Ben Coates, an associate professor who is researching the history of economic sanctions in the 20th century.
April 5, 2022
Triad Business Journal
Michele Gillespie, current dean, named Wake Forest University provost
Wake Forest University has promoted the current dean of Wake Forest’s College of Arts and Sciences to provost of the university. Michele Gillespie will succeed Rogan Kersh, effective July 1 for an initial two-year term. With Gillespie’s appointment and the recent presidential inauguration of Susan Wente, the top two roles at Wake Forest will be held by women.
The Winston-Salem Journal also covered this news.
April 5, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
The Carolina Core “has little visibility when it comes to adding credibility or promoting the success of these individual sites. It’s still building its own brand identity and awareness, and has limited brand equity.” For the Carolina Core brand to become more relevant, more work needs to be done from a marketing standpoint to create that connectivity, said marketing professor Roger Beahm.
April 5, 2022
Charlotte Business Journal
Crowning jewel Charlotte’s innovation district gets a name
Nestled in the heart of Midtown near Pearl Street Park, it seems only fitting the innovation district will be known as “The Pearl.” Leaders from Atrium Health and the community announced the name during a virtual event. The Pearl innovation district – featuring the Queen City’s first four-year medical school, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte – will sit where the city’s old Brooklyn neighborhood once stood.
April 1, 2022
Columbus Business First
Which South Florida companies are hoarding cash?
Finance professor Ajay Patel said there are costs that come with leaving all that cash abroad. “If I am an investor, I don’t necessarily want a company to pay the federal government a huge amount of money for repatriating that cash.”
April 1, 2022
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
Will gas prices drop with release of strategic reserve? Not in the long run
“Anytime you can have a little increase in supply, prices are going to fall. It’s going to help households become a little more comfortable with their budgets, but at the end of the day we just need more petroleum out there, and given the bottleneck we see from the conflict in Ukraine it’s not going to happen,” said economics professor Todd McFall.
April 1, 2022
Washington Post Opinions
Five teenagers. Recanted confessions. Convicted. Sound familiar?
Phoebe Zerwick is the author of “Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt” and director of the journalism program at Wake Forest. She writes about five teenagers – suspects in a brutal attack who confessed then tried to recant — and the risk of false confession when detectives lie to juveniles.
March 31, 2022