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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
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest starts reading program for children
Wake Forest students, staff members and alumni have started an initiative called Wake Reads to provide children with educational entertainment and to give parents a break during the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Recorded readings of children’s books by such authors as Dr. Seuss, Katie Couric and Antoinette Portis are uploaded to the Office of Civic & Community Engagement’s YouTube site.
April 25, 2020
Charlotte Business Journal
How Covid-19 has changed business for Charlotte’s community banks
Gone are the handshakes and personal meetings that drive bankers’ business. They are instead processing loans from home and closing essential transactions at a 6-foot distance. “There were very few people who were expecting something like this to actually happen,” said Ajay Patel, finance professor at Wake Forest’s School of Business. “I think the banks are going to have to think of this as a long game.”
April 24, 2020
POLITICO
A second Covid crisis: The impact on women and girls
A 2018 survey from the Census Bureau showed that fewer women than men intended to participate in the census. “One explanation for the gender gap, at least in the survey, may be something both simple and relatable: American women are busy. Catherine Harnois, a sociologist at Wake Forest, said that women’s intent to fill out the census could be affected by their lack of discretionary hours in the day.
April 24, 2020
Triad Business Journal
Social-distance learning: Covid-19 forces Triad universities, students to adapt
Facing down the Covid-19 pandemic and associated disruption, graduating seniors are entering the workforce with youthful energy, new ideas and the tech savvy that will surely be required in shaping what the new normal actually looks like. “We’re being forced to innovate in a faster way, in a more dramatic way as a result of Covid-19,” said Andy Chan, vice president for innovation and career development at Wake Forest. “What before felt like was ‘nice to do’ is now a ‘must do.’ Even though a lot of industry sectors are definitely declining, we do see some opportunities for students to be able to find jobs. There is definitely more bad news than good news, but there still is some opportunity out there.”
April 24, 2020
88.1 Blue Ridge Public Radio
Embodied: How COVID-19 disrupts the rituals of death and dying
Tanya Marsh, funeral and cemetery law professor at Wake Forest, joined “The State of Things” to explain how the death care industry is overwhelmed by the pandemic. “The funeral is the way that we express grief and process grief, and it’s also a method leading to body disposition,” said Marsh. “But what we’ve seen in New York, because of the challenges to the whole system based on the sheer number of bodies it’s having to deal with, is we’re bifurcating those two things.”
April 23, 2020
Language Magazine
With Magnifying the Universe, you can dive into the natural world at scale
Jed Macosko, academic director of Intelligent Education, co-founder of AcademicInfluence.com, and assistant professor of physics at Wake Forest said, “Comparing massive things such as mountains or planets, or microscopic items such as viruses or DNA, in our heads is difficult—maybe even impossible.” As part of its mission to offer free, interactive, educational tools online, Intelligent Education launched “Magnifying the Universe.” The program helps users to conceptualize scale and satisfies the wonderment of teachers, homeschoolers, students, and those simply curious about their place in the world. “We wanted to make the idea of magnification real and present, leveraging today’s available data and technology to make something immediately valuable to students and teachers all over the world.”
April 23, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Coping with Corona: WFU professor creates video series to help
Christian Waugh, a Wake Forest associate professor of psychology and expert in stress and coping, has created a video series discussing the science behind coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The series, hosted on YouTube, features Waugh talking about topics like resilience, problem-focused coping, distraction and avoidances, positive emotions, the power of amusement and the brain. While he doesn’t give tips, tricks or advice through his videos, Waugh covers research on coping and how people successfully cope in different situations.
April 23, 2020
Voice Of America
Amid coronavirus, concerns grow over fate of Americans held in Iran, Syria
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, U.S. officials are expressing concern about the safety of American citizens held abroad, especially in countries that are hostile to the U.S, such as Iran and Syria. Randall Rogan, an expert on hostage negotiation who teaches communication at Wake Forest, said there are “two-pronged” options to address this issue. First, the U.S. State Department on behalf of the government can make some positive gestures of goodwill, such as releasing frozen funds or other economic conditions in exchange for the health and well-being, or even the release of detainees. “The second prong would be the punitive approach, by which actions might be taken to put more negative pressure, such as sanctions, on the governments or various leaders directly.”
April 22, 2020
Vox
Senators are demanding a solution to police stopping black men for wearing — and not wearing — masks
A group of six US senators sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the FBI demanding immediate anti-bias training for law enforcement officials amid the coronavirus pandemic. The senators wrote with urgency, spurred by recent reports from black men who say they were racially profiled for wearing protective face masks, a measure the CDC recommends to prevent Covid-19. So far, the reports of racial profiling are anecdotal and there are just a known few. But did the incident occur if it wasn’t caught on camera? Shelter-in-place orders might be limiting the presence of public watchdogs. “One of the greatest advances in police accountability hasn’t been a police body camera or surveillance; it’s the people filming,” said Kami Chavis, director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest. “People react differently when they know they’re being watched.”
April 22, 2020
Education Dive
3 ways college career services offices can help students right now
College career services offices are hosting virtual networking events, talking students through hurdles they’re facing on the job hunt and helping them craft contingency plans in the event that their offers are rescinded due to the pandemic. “More of the counseling element comes into play,” said Cheryl Hicks, associate director for career education and coaching at Wake Forest. “It’s important for us as coaches to realize that and not only tell (students) it’s going to be all right but why it’s going to be all right.” Hicks shared tips for career service centers working to support students in a suddenly altered job market and educational landscape.
April 21, 2020