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Scienmag
Hidden temperature errors may understate climate impacts by 15% or More
When city planners, public health officials, and agricultural agencies prepare for a hotter future, they almost always begin with the same foundation: economic studies that quantify how extreme heat affects violent crime, hospital admissions, electricity demand, and crop yields. Those studies, in turn, rest on temperature data. A new peer-reviewed study, co-authored by Wake Forest economics professor Alex Yu, argues that this foundation is shakier than the research community has appreciated.
October 3, 2026
Environmental News Bits
How to do your own online health research like a scientist
"The instinct to 'do your own research' when it comes to your health is a good one," writes Lucy McGowan, Associate Professor of Statistical Sciences. "The challenge often is not lack of information, but the opposite. People are surrounded by studies, headlines, forums, family and friends, often all speaking at once in different directions and with different levels of reliability. How do you move through this abundance of information without getting lost in it?"
October 2, 2026
Yahoo
COVID disparity skews absentee voting numbers
"It is very likely that some people followed new developments in recent months about the possibility that new federal rules would create complications for mailing absentee ballots and that this led some people to decide that the safer course of action would be to vote in person," said politics professor John Dinan. The U.S. Supreme Court recently prevented the proposed federal rules affecting absentee ballots from taking effect this year. "So these concerns should no longer serve as a deterrent to anyone considering voting an absentee ballot."
October 2, 2026
Yahoo Life
How journaling can heal the mother wound
"The mother wound is the pain, trauma and negative psychological messaging that children, typically daughters, inherit from their mother's own unresolved wounding," explains Allison Forti, an associate teaching professor in Wake Forest's counseling department. "Daughters who experience the mother wound may have had their physical needs met during childhood, but didn't receive emotional attunement, love and a sense of safety and security from their mother."
October 2, 2026
Cleanroom Technology
Wake Forest University opens ISO Class 5 cleanroom for quantum chip research
Wake Forest University has opened its new Nano and Quantum Technologies Laboratory (NanoteQ), including the university’s first ISO Class 5 cleanroom for research into quantum technologies. The facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, provides a controlled environment for fabricating and studying silicon-based qubits, while also housing advanced microscopy and spectroscopy equipment.
October 2, 2026
Agenzia DIRE
Mercury alert in the Amazon, researchers: ‘It’s everywhere.’
Scientists from across the Amazon delivered to Pope Leo XIV a briefing on mercury pollution in the region—documents that include the findings from decades of research at the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA), established in partnership with Wake Forest’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability. “Today we were able to put more than a decade of CINCIA-led scientific evidence…directly into the hands of the pope,” said Luis Fernandez, professor of biology, senior fellow with the Sabin Center, and co-founder of CINCIA. Sabin Center Fellow Claudia Vega joined Fernandez at the Vatican.
Wake Forest News: Wake Forest-CINCIA researchers brief pope on Amazon mercury pollution
The story appeared in 50+ outlets worldwide, including Mongabay, La Republica, and AP Noticias.
October 1, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Allegacy Financial deepens WFU sponsorship to include academics, student life and athletics
Allegacy Financial and Wake Forest University announced that they’ve not just renewed but expanded the credit union’s sponsorship relationship in a “multiyear” agreement that builds upon the stadium naming rights deal signed in 2023. “From accelerating leadership education and student career pathways to enhancing financial literacy for our entire campus community, this collaboration demonstrates what can be achieved when two purpose-driven institutions unite around a common mission to serve humanity,” Wake Forest’s new president, Peter Rodriguez, said in announcing the agreement.
The announcement was also featured in The Charlotte Observer and published in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal.
October 1, 2026
Inside Higher Ed
Career prep when no one knows what’s next
Wake Forest University was an early adopter of putting career services in the president’s cabinet, dating back to 2009. But Vice President for Personal and Career Development Andy Chan said it’s serving the institution well in the AI era. Chan said that “if I’m not at that table, there’s no one really in the room sharing what’s happening in the marketplace around jobs and careers.” And when he raises an issue directly with deans and other vice presidents as peers, “those people will take me seriously and make it happen.” By contrast, Chan said, a more isolated career services director might ask for something and hear, “How important is this, really?”
September 29, 2026
The Chronicle of Higher Education
To better prepare students for the work force, colleges turn to a new role: the chief career officer
This story highlights Wake Forest University and Andy Chan, who was appointed vice president for personal and career development in 2009. His groundbreaking cabinet-level role signaled a shift in higher education. Here, at last, was evidence that higher education was taking student career development seriously: treating it not as a peripheral service, but as a core part of the student experience, central to the institutional mission. However, 'just because you’re a vice president doesn’t mean you can do it all on your own—wave a magic wand,” said Chan. “The whole school has to own this.”
September 28, 2026
Marketplace
Celebrating Dolly Parton Day with some history of the 8-hour workday
Around the time of the American Civil War, people typically worked 12 hours a day, six days a week. “And then what happened is that we became more prosperous,” said economist Robert Whaples, a professor of American economic history at Wake Forest. “And people said, ‘I don't want just more food and clothing … I'd also like more leisure time.’” Whaples said workers were attracted to jobs with fewer hours. And it was Henry Ford who first instituted a company policy of working eight-hour days, five days a week, which actually happened 100 years ago on Friday.
September 25, 2026
State Court Report
Evaluating 20 years of state constitutional changes
State constitutional amendment numbers and approval rates vary by region. Most amendments during the 20-year time period—54%— came from southern states, supporting observations by Princeton University's Alan Tarr and Wake Forest politics professor John Dinan that southern states replace and amend their constitutions at much higher rates than non-southern states.
September 25, 2026
The New York Times
42 gun-training classes later, he understands why we’re so afraid
Sociologist David Yamane argues that academic gun studies lean on a “master narrative” linking fear and right-wing politics as corrosive to democracy. “There’s a common tendency for sociologists—I’d say also liberals—to view fear negatively,” said sociologist David Yamane, who describes himself as a gun-owning liberal. He maintains that contemporary gun culture is rooted in ordinary people converting fear into information to manage uncertainty and protect themselves, often in restrained and socially acceptable ways.
September 25, 2026