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Stacker
100 colleges with the best ROI
Wake Forest made Stacker’s list of the top 100 colleges with the best return on investment.
December 30, 2020
The New York Times
What can be learned from differing rates of suicide among groups
Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest, sees another angle to Black religiosity that could reduce suicide rates. “It’s in the Black theological tradition that in this life you will experience trouble and hardship,” he said. “Unfortunately, this is born of tragic experiences in this nation. This prepares one for paths of despair, for traveling the lonely road of heartbreak, perhaps in a way that white Americans don’t learn to the same degree or from a young and formative age.”
December 30, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
In memory: Leaders Winston-Salem lost in 2020
Dr. Larry Hopkins, a Wake Forest football star, strived to help women without financial means throughout his storied career as a well-known doctor of obstetrics and gynecology. Founding Today’s Woman clinic, he worked to aid disadvantaged mothers and to reduce infant mortality in low-income neighborhoods. Hopkins, who died in November 2020, was a member of the university’s board of trustees.
December 30, 2020
VICE
Science says you need to plan some things to look forward to
Humans are extremely future-oriented, psychology professor Christian Waugh told VICE. From making weekend plans to plotting a five-year career path, humans have the unique ability to set goals and envision how to get there and how it’ll feel when they do. “When we are optimistic, what that’s telling us is we’re on the right path to accomplishing goals we care about. It gives us a sense of meaning, it gives us a sense of purpose—and a sense of purpose is, by itself, motivating.”
December 29, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
The announcement by Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch that he is retiring next year was enough to grab the attention of city residents during 2020. Under his leadership, Wake Forest mobilized alumni, supporters and parents to support Wake Will Lead, the largest fundraising effort in the school’s history. Hatch led the integration of Wake Forest University Health Services with N.C. Baptist Hospital in 2010, and more recently oversaw the combination with Charlotte’s Atrium Health. Hatch apologized for the university’s historical connection with slavery in February.
December 29, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Coronavirus and protests highlighted 2020 in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County: Hatch retiring
The announcement by Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch that he is retiring next year was enough to grab the attention of city residents during 2020. Under his leadership, Wake Forest mobilized alumni, supporters and parents to support Wake Will Lead, the largest fundraising effort in the school’s history. Hatch led the integration of Wake Forest University Health Services with N.C. Baptist Hospital in 2010, and more recently oversaw the combination with Charlotte’s Atrium Health. Hatch apologized for the university’s historical connection with slavery in February.
December 29, 2020
Gen
By disrupting our routines, the pandemic skewed our interpretation of time — both as it was happening and how we interpreted it retrospectively, explained Adrian Bardon, philosophy professor at Wake Forest. It also filled us with anxiety. “The combination of negative emotion and inward-directed attention makes your moment-to-moment life seem intolerable and burdensome,” Bardon continued. Yet, “when we look back on our day, we say, ‘Where did the day go? Nothing got done.’” In other words: The pandemic added new stresses and forced us to ruminate.
December 28, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest took a calculated risk in February when it removed its name and brand from the 2.1-million-square-foot Innovation Quarter in downtown Winston-Salem. Officials with Innovation Quarter, with an overall workforce of more than 3,400, said it was ready to stand on its own among its U.S. and global innovation peers. “Nothing about the new branding changes the commitments that Wake Forest has made to downtown Winston-Salem,” said University President Nathan Hatch.
December 27, 2020
Democracy Nerd
Chile votes to rewrite its constitution, with guests Jennifer Piscopo & Peter Siavelis
Chile’s voters approved a measure to rewrite the country’s constitution to allow for a representative democracy and more equal society. Peter Siavelis, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Wake Forest, helped provide context in the rare occasion of a Western democracy rewriting its constitution.
December 26, 2020
Democracy Nerd
Chile votes to re-write it’s constitution, with guests Jennifer Piscopo & Peter Siavelis
Chile’s voters approved a measure to rewrite the country’s constitution to allow for a representative democracy and more equal society. Peter Siavelis, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Wake Forest, helped provide context in the rare occasion of a Western democracy rewriting its constitution. Siavelis says he will be watching the April 2021 Constitutional Convention elections to see who will ultimately contribute to process: “Does this meet the promise that we all hope it does, or is it the same names as usual? What is the socioeconomic status of these people? How do the indigenous seats play out?”
December 26, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
“In regard to the general question of whether an executive order can override a contrary state law, the answer is that it cannot,” said politics professor John Dinan. “This holds true both at the state level and at the federal level, in terms of the inability of presidential executive order to override a contrary congressional statute and the similar inability of a gubernatorial executive order to override a contrary state statute.”
December 25, 2020
Geo News (Pakistan)
Couples who help each other out with household chores have a stronger bond, study says
Wake Forest researchers found “a direct link between ‘pro-social behaviour’ – such as putting partners’ desires ahead of our own – and closeness and self-esteem.”
December 24, 2020