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WS Chronicle
Rashaun Rucker’s art chosen for exhibit at WFU
Award-winning photographer and artist Rashaun Rucker has had his work shown across the country, at the Smithsonian, celebrities’ homes, colleges and universities, and in countless exhibitions and galleries. His piece, “Tapestry to my Soul” is on display as part of Wake Forest’s Means of Identification exhibition. The work was purchased by students for the University’s Student Union Art Collection during the 2021 spring art-buying experience.
November 10, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
RiverRun to present “Theirs is the Kingdom” in virtual theater
The documentary, from Chris Zaluski, assistant teaching professor in the Wake Forest University Documentary Film Program, follows the creation of a contemporary fresco mural inside the sanctuary of a small church in Asheville, examining the intersection of poverty and portraiture.
November 10, 2021
WalletHub
Best credit cards for price protection
Is the price-match guarantee an effective strategy for retailers? “A claim of “lowest price” is substantive, and can attract attention and interest. It can also turn into an increased customer base and higher sales volume,” said marketing and retail expert Roger Beahm.
November 9, 2021
E&E News
Anti-vaxxers threaten to jam up White House regulatory process
“The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has always been an important cog in the machine,” said law professor Sidney Shapiro. “Industry is just better at getting organized and financed to get those meetings. It’s not that they have excluded public interest groups. It’s just an imbalance in opportunity and resources.”
November 8, 2021
Triad Business Journal
Business professor cited as one of world’s most influential researchers
Business professor Sean Hannah, who studies the positive effects of exemplary leadership and the building of high-performing teams, was ranked among the top 1% of the most impactful research scientists worldwide. His most recent research utilizes neuroscience to study the brain activity of exemplary leaders.
November 8, 2021
Forbes
An experiment for consciousness? Scientists and philosophers debate it
Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of 2D visual mental representations that fundamentally change vision science. “It’s pseudoscience,” said physics professor Eric Carlson. “We know very well that consciousness is the action of the brain, which operates on electrochemical principles.”
November 6, 2021
The Atlantic
Women and the liberating power of no
Politics professor Melissa Harris-Perry is one of several women featured in this piece on what happens when women and girls say no. “We shouldn’t pretend that if only we could muster the courage to do it, there will be applause because most often there won’t be.… It is completely possible that if you say no you won’t get the chance to say yes. And that makes the calculation different for us than it does for boys.”
November 5, 2021
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Why is daylight saving time still a thing?
“The last three years have seen a number of states really taking a look at why don’t we just stay on daylight saving time on a permanent basis. Florida’s taking a look at it. Other states are taking a look at it. No surprise North Carolina is also taking a look at it,” politics professor John Dinan said.
November 5, 2021
NPR
What it means for the jury to be nearly all white in trial for Ahmad Aubrey’s killing
Ailsa Chang talks with economics professor Francis Flanagan on the role of race in a jury. “So what we see in the data is that White men are actually more likely to convict Black defendants and less likely to convict White defendants, at least in North Carolina and some of the other southern states that we have looked at.”
November 4, 2021
Did someone say boobies? Meet these iconic Galapagos birds
Biology professor Dave Anderson has a soft spot for the Blue-footed booby. His study of the reproductive life history of Nazcas on Española Island has been running for three decades; he’s banded 17,000 individuals over that period. “It’s a very tractable system,” Anderson said of working in the Galápagos. “The birds have no fear of humans and they handle attention easily.”
November 4, 2021
FiveThirtyEight
“Religion does matter to gun ownership, but not in any one simplistic way,” said sociology professor David Yamane. “The connection between gun ownership and religion is different depending on whether you are talking about religious behaving, belonging or believing.”
November 4, 2021
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
WFU, WSSU students hold pep rally to celebrate frontline workers
Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University students held a pep rally outside Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist to celebrate frontline healthcare workers as well as all the employees who continue to work through the COVID-19 pandemic. This story was also covered by WXII.
November 4, 2021