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The Charlotte Observer
How an NC professor and her students helped human composting become legal in the US
Tanya Marsh feels it's a little ironic that a company that turns human remains into compost is working to open a facility in North Carolina. After all, the state played a major role in getting human composting up and running legally around the country. “The ironic thing is, the legal work started in North Carolina. But to my knowledge, nobody’s even introduced legislation to try and make it legal in North Carolina yet,” said Marsh, a professor of funeral and cemetery law.
Wake Forest research on alternative burials was also featured on WMAC's Public Radio The Roundtable.
September 10, 2026
Comment Magazine
Wendell Berry’s difficult hope
In this essay, Michael Lamb, chair of Leadership and Character and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities, writes: In 2012, when we laid my grandfather in the earth, we read an excerpt from Berry’s poem “Rising” at his graveside. Now, as I remember a man who has been an intellectual grandfather to me and so many others, I return to his words, with deep and abiding thanks. May Wendell’s flesh continue to “rhyme its part in immortal song,” and may we “reach through ages with the seed.”
September 10, 2026
The Washington Post
They survived 9/11. Then they devoted their lives to helping others.
“In the immediate aftermath of going through adversity and trauma, many people report some degree of growth,” said psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme, who studies post-traumatic growth. “So when something bad happens, believing that you’ve learned from it gives you more control over the event, so you don’t feel like this passive victim of the cosmos.”
September 9, 2026
MSN
The K-shaped economy is ‘over’ — but 60% of US spending rests on rich people’s portfolios
“If you’ve already accumulated wealth, you’re a member of the upper K, and the reason you’re doing OK is because you almost certainly have significant exposure to the financial markets,” Deon Strickland, a professor of finance at Wake Forest University and former SEC economist, told Forbes.
September 8, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest University’s new president on navigating growth, innovation districts and affordability
[Wake Forest] is "a great mix of a small private university that has values at its center, but it’s also really comprehensive in the sense of having a presence in medicine, law, graduate programs in business or professional studies, a divinity school, Power Four athletics...That's very hard to find," Wake Forest president Peter Rodriguez told Triad Business Journal in this Q&A interview.
September 8, 2026
Yes! Weekly
MUSE Winston-Salem to Host WFU Art Professor Joel Tauber
MUSE Winston-Salem is hosting the U.S. premiere of “Chavruta: A Model for Discourse Today,”a social practice project and performance by artist and filmmaker Joel Tauber, professor of art at Wake Forest University. I'm excited to explore how this ancient form of conversation, chavruta, can build connections and foster discourse,” said Tauber.
September 8, 2026
Houston Chronicle
Bettors wager on Trump convention speech
Prediction market expert Koleman Strumpf said particular events or elections that are popular in a given week tend to draw significant attention. Strumpf said that the 2024 Presidential election was the “coming out” for the prediction markets and their popularity has only increased from that year. This year, it’s different. “You could be focused on one state or another,” he said.
September 7, 2026
The New York Times
Wendell Berry was a farmer who was as interested in the "purpose of the university" as he was in the use of horses and mules, as comfortable talking about Shakespeare as a tobacco spear, who thought both had something valuable to teach us. Emerson once said that “every work of genius” enables us to “recognize our own rejected thoughts” and then gives them “back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” That was Berry’s genius for me: he clothed my intellectual and moral formation on the farm with majesty, helping me see it as the fertile soil it had always been in my life, writes Michael Lamb, senior executive director of Wake Forest's Program for Leadership and Character.
September 6, 2026
MSN
Many truckers don’t feel like the rest of America about AI data centers as business booms
With as many as two-thirds of AI data centers being constructed in rural areas, the influx of truck traffic is reshaping truck routes. "Unlike warehouses that support large retailers or other physical goods delivery, data centers require comparatively little logistics support after they have been built," said Kyre Lahtinen, associate teaching professor of finance. Communities experiencing a boom in trucking should be cautious about how much infrastructure they build out and whether demand will persist after the construction phase has passed, he said.
September 5, 2026
The Charlotte Observer
Wake Forest brings Manning, Folwell together to talk 2026 elections
Wake Forest University will host a panel discussion on Sept. 15 featuring two prominent Triad politicians addressing the potential implications of the Nov. 3 general election. The event, which is free and open to the public, features former two-term Democratic U.S. House Rep. Kathy Manning and former two-term Republican State Treasurer Dale Folwell. The event is being sponsored by the university's Department of Politics and International Studies and Department of Economics.
This panel discussion was also featured in the News & Observer.
September 5, 2026
WBUR-FM (Boston, MA): On Point
Why have so many of us seen ghosts?
One in 5 Americans say they've seen a ghost. But what if it was really our brain that had tricked us into thinking we saw something we didn't? If we can construct a narrative about sensory information that we're taking in, we're more likely to remember it," said Melissa Maffeo, teaching professor of psychology and author of the new book, "Science of the Supernatural: Critical Thinking for the Mind and Brain." I think skepticism is not the same as disbelief, Maffeo said. "Skepticism is what sort of information or evidence do I need to have to actually believe this? And I personally have not had any of that evidence."
September 4, 2026
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Why is the San Diego mosque killing case against a teen girl being tried in North Carolina?
As two teenagers stormed a San Diego mosque, livestreaming from a camera on a helmet, authorities say a 17-year-old girl was in North Carolina, watching, recording. Prosecutors allege she not only failed to warn authorities about the planned attack, but she had also agreed to disseminate both the recorded footage and the shooters’ hate-filled manifesto. Aiding and abetting or accessory theories of liability are “extremely broad” in North Carolina, said law professor Ronald Wright. “If you express the sort of support that would make it more likely that they will carry through with their plan, then that would be enough."
The full story is available on MSN and appeared in more than 30 news outlets nationwide.
September 4, 2026