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Wake Forest News
Two WFU engineering professors get water quality research grant
Wake Forest University assistant professors of engineering Courtney Di Vittorio and Kyana Young, in collaboration with professors at two area institutions, have received a three-year, $250,000 Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) from the Attorney General’s office. The grant and two others were announced Oct. 20 by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein inside the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center on the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro.
The Greensboro News & Record covered this story.
October 20, 2021
Inside Higher Ed
Career centers must support students when goals change
During the pandemic, and outside of it, career centers can best prepare students by providing a defined college-to-career process, identifying their transferable skills and educating them on the market. With these key strategies and essential information, students will be well equipped to navigate their career-related decisions, writes Austin Wechter, associate director of marketing and communications in the Office of Personal and Career Development.
October 20, 2021
STAT
Philanthropist-funded study raises questions about clinical research
To Ana Iltis, director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, one of the biggest issues is that clinical trials are so often billed as a way to access treatment. “That isn’t the primary purpose of research. The primary purpose of research is to produce generalizable knowledge,” she said.
October 20, 2021
E-Commerce Times
The challenge and promise of quantum computing
“Our world is already full of problems that are hard for even the fastest computers — from biological problems like gene expression and protein folding, to simulations of quantum behavior in the nuclear arsenal,” said physics professor David L. Carroll. “We simplify these problems by making unphysical assumptions so that our computers can handle them. That will no longer be necessary in the quantum computing future.”
October 20, 2021
Yes! Weekly
Pandemic and politics: How COVID will impact the campaign trail
“There is no doubt that COVID is one of the top issues on voters’ minds in 2021 and that candidates can be expected to focus to a great degree on discussing the governmental response to COVID and plans for combating COVID,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Education and taxes are among other issues that also rank high in surveys about what voters are focused on.”
October 20, 2021
Vox
Fake rhino horns were supposed to foil poachers. What went wrong?
Economics professor Frederick Chen’s research is referenced in this article on rhino horn poaching. “Economic principles tell us that the availability of synthetic horns can reduce the supply of wild horns — and even drive out wild horn sellers completely from the horn market.”
October 19, 2021
Bloomberg Law: Environment
UN environment rights bolster case for global climate litigation
Courts have been “increasingly willing” to rule that environmental harm flies against human rights, and this resolution pulls that trend into a single, overarching right recognized universally, said law professor John Knox. The recognition “is not going to directly change the legal obligations of any State, but it does change the way we think about the issue in a way that can then lead to legal change.”
October 19, 2021
NY Public Radio
Harris-Perry named host and managing editor of The Takeaway
WNYC Studios and PRX announced that Melissa Harris-Perry has been named host and managing editor of The Takeaway, the nationally syndicated public radio news program that airs on more than 300 stations. Harris-Perry has been serving as interim host since July 2021. She will continue teaching at Wake Forest as Maya Angelou Presidential Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs.
October 18, 2021
WXII-TV
Wake Forest University reacts to Colin Powell’s death
“Powell paved the way for many as the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and the nation’s first Black Secretary of State. “That becomes a challenge for us and an opportunity to really ensure that, although Colin Powell was a first in many instances, he will not be the last,” said humanities professor and director of the African American Studies program Corey Walker.
October 18, 2021
WFMY-TV (Greensboro)
Triad universities react to the death of Colin Powell
Wake Forest Board of Trustees Vice Chair and Professor Emeritus of Biology Herman Eure placed the honorary doctor of laws degree graduation hood on Powell in 2004 – the year Powell delivered the University’s commencement address. “I now understood the command presence that a person like this had because, when you walked into a room you commanded the room,” said Eure.
October 18, 2021
South China Morning Post
China, Africa and the 3 years since Xi Jinping promised to rebalance trade
Politics professor Lina Benabdallah comments in this piece on how the aftermath of Covid-19 has pushed a number of indebted African countries into default and trade is still weighted in China’s favor.
October 17, 2021
Winston-Salem Journal
Finding marketing balance for e-cigarettes will challenge FDA, Reynolds
“While there are notable limitations in what the FDA is allowing, the fact that Reynolds is now permitted to introduce and market these new products opens the door to new revenue opportunities and potential growth, which has heretofore been very limited,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at the School of Business.
October 17, 2021