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Yahoo Health
How to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step-by-step guide
"The instinct to 'do your own research' when it comes to your health is a good one," writes statistical science professor Lucy McGowan. "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?"
This story, originally published in The Conversation, ran in news outlets nationwide, including Inkl, The Pioneer and Seattle PI.
August 4, 2026
LinkedIn Top Colleges 2026: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.
LinkedIn released its Top Colleges ranking, recognizing the 50 U.S. schools whose graduates have gone on to achieve the strongest professional outcomes. Wake Forest University ranked 17th among those universities that create the greatest opportunities after graduation.
August 4, 2026
Forbes
New York wants $36 billion from Kalshi.
Prediction markets have had a mixed 2026. What should we expect in 2027? By January, NPR counted 19 federal lawsuits over prediction markets; since then, four New Mexico tribes have added tribal-sovereignty claims, and the CFTC itself has become a serial plaintiff. Wake Forest economist Koleman Strumpf said, "It's going to be something the Supreme Court, and maybe even Congress, will have to weigh in on."
August 4, 2026
The Maine Monitor
Prediction market users wager millions on Maine elections
Prediction market expert Koleman Strumpf attributed prediction markets’ accuracy in part to “rational, deep-pocketed people” who see an opportunity to profit off the money flowing in from casual users. Prediction markets quantify changing sentiment in real time, said Strumpf, where polls can offer only occasional updates. Observing the markets, he said, is a free way to “find out what a bunch of smart people think about what’s going on in the world.”
August 4, 2026
The Conversation
Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws
"Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens to enforce them through the courts when the government does not act to address the problem," writes environmental law expert Sarah J. Morath.
August 3, 2026
Winston-Salem Journal
German World Cup team generated $10 million for Winston-Salem economy, report says
Wake Forest University's role as the World Cup base camp for the German Men's National soccer team generated at least $10 million in local visitor spending during its 23-day stay. That's according to a preliminary report on the economic and social-media reputational impact released last week by the university and Visit Winston-Salem.
August 2, 2026
PsyPost
Two forms of intellectual humility have opposite links to mental health, study finds
“There has been tons of research on how intellectual humility might help people to think better,” said Michael Prinzing, a research and assessment scholar at Wake Forest University. “But there has been almost none on how intellectual humility might impact a person’s well-being, which is surprising given that this has major implications for its status as an intellectual virtue.”
July 31, 2026
The Hill
Trump faces threat of widening regional war with Iran
The U.S. war with Iran is flaring up across the region, threatening to pull U.S. allies into a fight that President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started five months ago. Politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf said all of Iran’s strikes against U.S. outposts in the region are meant to signal its seriousness in not accepting terms at the negotiating table it views as inconsistent with its interests.
July 31, 2026
MSN South Africa
US-China rivalry is putting Africa in focus as Washington plans over $340M to counter China
Research by Lina Benabdallah of the Department of Politics and International Affairs challenges the prevailing framing of Africa as a passive venue for US-China competition. Her work demonstrates that analysing China-Africa ties purely through the lens of superpower rivalry reduces African leaders to bystanders in a contest they are actively shaping to serve their own national interests.
This article also ran in Business Insider Africa.
July 31, 2026
Women's Health
Are weighted vests worth it? What’s true—and what’s not—about their usefulness
Once reserved for military drills and CrossFit, weighted vests have found a new identity as the effortless way to add a hint of resistance to everyday movement. Their shift from hardcore gear to a staple for power walkers, pilates enthusiasts and casual exercisers happened fast. While limited studies in the past have uncovered subtle benefits in muscular strength and improvements in balance, says health and exercise science professor Kristen Beavers, these changes don’t necessarily lead to noticeable increases in muscle mass.
July 30, 2026
Christianity Today
Interview with Christian Miller, author of “The Honesty Crisis”
Philosophy professor Christian B. Miller is Project Director for The Honesty Project. If you were to rank honesty in a list of virtues, where would you put it? In his new book, "The Honesty Crisis," Professor Christian Miller calls it “our most treasured virtue.” He also considers it among our most endangered.
July 30, 2026
The Assembly
“Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.” For a long time, Peter Rodriguez has lived by that mantra. The saying—hidden in the back of his childhood encyclopedia in an entry about the religion Zoroastrianism—stuck out to teenage Rodriguez as “pure and clean and simple.” Later, he thought it represented the purpose of a liberal arts education: The university prompts “good thoughts” by letting students learn from great minds and start to think for themselves. “Good words” and “good deeds” follow.
July 30, 2026