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Mongabay
Healing the world through ‘radical listening’: Q&A with Dr. Kinari Webb
“Amid this global pandemic, the health of the planet is intricately connected to public health around the world,” said Justin Catanoso, professor of journalism at Wake Forest. Catanoso interviewed Kinari Webb, a medical doctor and founder of Health in Harmony, a nonprofit aimed at curbing global warming by protecting rainforests and empowering the human communities that live within them.
April 30, 2020
News & Record
Wake Forest University will recognize the class of 2020 twice: once May 18, and again Oct. 31
Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch wrote in a letter to the university community that the school will confer undergraduate and graduate degrees virtually May 18, the original date of commencement. The online ceremony will be streamed on YouTube, Facebook and the university’s website. The school expects to award about 2,300 bachelor’s, graduate and professional degrees. Wake Forest plans to hold an in-person on-campus commencement on Oct. 31. Graduate schools will hold their own hooding ceremonies, but the main event will be outside on Hearn Plaza – Wake’s traditional commencement venue – weather and health permitting.
April 30, 2020
Psychology Today
Getting back to normal: Lessons from a global crisis
“It’s normal to look for something normal in all of this,” said Allison McWilliams, assistant vice president of mentoring and alumni personal and career development at Wake Forest. “And, this is a moment for us all to ask, what’s so great about normal, anyway? I’ve said it before and will keep saying it: if we don’t emerge from this moment having learned anything, having gained some perspective on what really matters, then what a waste this all will have been. We owe ourselves, and the people who actually are putting themselves on the line for us, that much at least.”
April 30, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Will the coronavirus end the SAT
The novel coronavirus has started a flood of America’s colleges adopting test-optional policies in undergraduate admissions. Sociology professor Joseph Soares points out that, as early as the ’60s, at least one Ivy League institution recognized that tests did little to predict anything other than parental income. While the tests have changed several times since then, the things they’re good at – sorting students by income, ethnicity, and parental attainment – have not.
April 30, 2020
The Washington Post
The fight against AIDS has shaped how potential covid-19 drugs will reach patients
“AIDS was a merciless and lethal disease until the FDA’s new programs made drugs easier to test and more widely available. These changes to FDA policy did not just change the course of the AIDS epidemic, but also will play a role in how covid-19 treatments are tested, and how quickly patients have access to them,” said Marie-Amélie George, legal historian and assistant professor at Wake Forest School of Law, in an article written for the Washington Post. “Like HIV treatment options, the FDA has to balance rigorous scientific testing with the needs of patients.”
April 29, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University student recreating campus in Minecraft
After learning students would be unable to return to Wake Forest this semester due to the pandemic, freshman Declan Sanders began building a virtual model of campus in Minecraft, a video game in which players create elaborate structures in digital form with blocks. So far, Sanders has created virtual representations of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Hearn Plaza, Reynolda Hall and other familiar landmarks. “While I’m building, there are some places on campus that will make me remember something that happened with my friends… I started doing this because I miss Wake Forest so much. It’s very relaxing to work on.”
April 29, 2020
Charlotte Agenda
Could coronavirus forever shape the way Charlotte shops for groceries?
For years, grocers have been trying to figure out ways to improve the online shopping experience they offer, and to get people to shop online more, said marketing professor Roger Beahm. Whenever you create a “trial opportunity” for shoppers, a certain percentage of that trial is going to stick.. “That’s what we’re going to experience as we move into the post-coronavirus phase. A larger percentage than ever of shoppers will now continue buying their retail grocery online.”
April 28, 2020
WXII
RiverRun offering free online screenings of popular North Carolina short film works
There are 19 shorts total in the two programs offered, some of which have Triad connections. “Ups and Downs,” has a Wake Forest connection. “This looks at memories of Wake Forest students of different staircases they’ve gone up and down on the campus. Some are good memories and some are not so good memories,” said RiverRun’s Executive Director Rob Davis.
April 28, 2020
The Daily Signal
Leading CEO on coronavirus recovery panel wary of government power grab
“The financial crisis was brought about largely from government policies and regulation, and a number of large companies that took real economic risk,” said John Allison, executive-in-residence at the Wake Forest School of Business and former CEO of BB&T Corp. “This crisis is more intentional – arguably necessarily so – at the state and federal level. The economy was intentionally shut down to stop the spread of coronavirus. This could be used as justification for the government to intervene in a lot of things that have nothing to do with the virus.”
April 27, 2020
The Washington Post
A Virginia preacher believed ‘God can heal anything.’ Then he caught coronavirus
What distinguishes many charismatic Christians is their belief that such miracles are not extraordinary but routine, said Bill J. Leonard, a professor emeritus at Wake Forest School of Divinity and an expert on Southern Protestantism. Those believers see faith healing as a practical measure to combat pain or illness, sometimes carried out by laying hands on the unwell or anointing them with oil. A deadly contagion like the coronavirus poses special challenges to such convictions, Leonard said. “By making these claims, you overpromise in God’s name. And that can be daunting to the faithful.”
April 27, 2020
United States Politics And Policy Blog
The challenging future for restraint in US foreign policy
“As the Covid-19 pandemic wanes in the coming weeks, debates among pundits and academics about the future of US grand strategy – especially around the controversial trend toward greater strategic restraint – are bound to resurface,” said C. William Walldorf Jr., associate professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest and a U.S. foreign policy expert. “Restrainers face a challenging future that could hinder their ability to bring lasting change to U.S. grand strategy…When it comes to grand strategy, the domestic politics of what can be done often confound even the best ideas of what should be done. Failure by restrainers to manage several domestic challenges today could leave them on the outside of policy debates looking in going forward.”
April 27, 2020
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
‘It’s like the toilet paper’: Gun sales are up across Appalachia. Here’s why
David Yamane, a professor of sociology at Wake Forest who studies gun culture, said first-time buyers are often purchasing some peace of mind, due to a personal trauma or fears about their neighborhoods or society. “I think the intended purpose of the purchase is physical security, and they are also attempting to buy some psychological security,” he said. “It’s like the toilet paper,” said Yamane, a commodity shoppers stockpiled in March. “If they can’t have anything else until control, they know they have that one thing under control.”
April 27, 2020