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Winston-Salem Journal
The Pearl logo that debuted Thursday is linked to the logo of Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter, with bubble-like circles representing the P in Pearl and Q in Innovation Quarter. Officials involved in the Charlotte innovation district stressed their view that the two districts will be complementary, and not competitive.
March 3, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Climate change threatens NC water treatment plants, chemical facilities, report says
Treatment plants are often vulnerable to flooding because they typically are located near rivers and lakes that supply the water. “That’s always been a concern because of chlorine,” said Stan Meiburg, director of the University’s graduate programs in sustainability who also spent nearly four decades at the Environmental Protection Agency and was the EPA’s acting deputy administrator from 2014 to 2017. “That can be nasty.”
March 3, 2022
Reuters
Getting rid of Russian assets a big problem for U.S. fund managers
“Certainly there is a long history of foreign investors clashing with local states over ownership of various kinds of assets, and these have been resolved in ways ranging from financial settlements to foreign military invasions,” said history professor Benjamin A. Coates.
March 1, 2022
USA Today
‘It will be a lot harder on people.’ How sanctions will impact ordinary Russians
What will sanctions do to Russia? “This will certainly be felt by the average Russian,” said history professor Ben Coates, who is investigating the history of economic sanctions in the 20th century. “They will be paying higher prices for many types of goods.”
March 1, 2022
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The tragic life and death of Darryl Hunt
Wake Forest journalism program director Phoebe Zerwick’s new book is reviewed. “Beyond Innocence” is the story of how what seemed like Darryl Hunt’s happy ending turned out to be a chapter, not an ending, and a testament to how profoundly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect prisoners for years after they are released.
February 28, 2022
Fast Company
How to actually address plastic pollution with a global treaty
Recycling and waste management aren’t enough to address our plastic pollution problem, writes Sarah Morath, associate professor of legal writing. “In my view, negotiations should consider the interests of those who experience the disproportionate impacts of plastic, as well as those who make a living off recycling waste as part of the informal economy. Finally, an international treaty should promote collaboration and sharing of data, resources and best practices.”
February 26, 2022
MSN
Kami Chavis, law professor and director of the criminal justice program, lamented that reforms and crime prevention were often framed as opposing forces: “There is a real danger that the electorate is going to conflate progressive criminal justice policies with a rise in crime.”
February 26, 2022
Associated Press
In trans people, GOP candidates find latest ‘wedge issue’
The narrative of transgender people as a threat has strong parallels to bathroom-use and same-sex marriage bans and can be traced to Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign in 1977, said Andrew Proctor, an associate professor of politics who studies and teaches LGBTQ politics. The political framing is often around protecting girls, which is probably designed to broaden its appeal, Proctor and others said.
February 25, 2022
The Daily Dot
How NBA meme culture foretells an increasingly problematic present and future
“If you’re just a journalist—you’re just covering the story, and you’re providing analysis on player movements or whatever the case may be—that’s one thing. But when you have to provide some hype or sensationalize to draw eyes, you have to say wild, inflammatory stuff to drive conversations, get clicks, and get visits to your site, it becomes different,” said media professor Phillip Lamarr Cunningham.
February 25, 2022
Al Jazeera
The cost of speaking out for Palestinian rights
While high-profile figures like Emma Watson and Mark Ruffalo have faced intense backlash for speaking up for the rights of Palestinians, it is mainly academics and college students who face the most retaliation on campuses across the United States and Europe. “It forces students and professors to really self-censor in profound ways,” said Barry Trachtenberg, a historian and professor of Jewish history.
February 25, 2022
Yahoo News
China’s Horn of Africa envoy advances Beijing’s push for peace in strategic and complex region
According to politics and international affairs professor Lina Benabdallah, a specialist in China-Africa relations, Beijing’s interests in the Horn are multiple. “The Horn is a region of growing and overlapping interest to China with a combination of security interests, access to the Indian Ocean, economic and political partnership, geostrategic calculations and so on,” Benabdallah said.
February 24, 2022
Yes! Weekly
The Energy Explorers Program is expanding in 2022 – PEA is meeting the growing demand for this program this year by recruiting and training students at Wake Forest University, Salem College, and Winston-Salem State University to present the curriculum to local schools.
February 24, 2022