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Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem arts community to lose The Olio studio and store as well as Studio 7
Since it opened in 2014, The Olio has taught entrepreneurship through the arts, including an apprenticeship program. “It’s how we are engaging young people and empowering them with valuable entrepreneurial skills, public speaking, customer service, administration, marketing, sales,” said Rebeccah Byer. Byer is founding executive director of The Olio Inc. and a professor of the practice at Wake Forest, where she teaches social entrepreneurship and foundations of entrepreneurship. Though the studio and store will close at the end of the month, the nonprofit organization will remain in operation.
October 18, 2020
CR80News
Wake Forest scheduling solution using ASSA ABLOY locks to maximize campus space
“Four years ago, Wake’s provost wanted to purchase software that would allow faculty and students to schedule and reserve classroom spaces to provide more efficient use of the facilities we have,” says James Byrd, Wake Forest director of physical security technology and Deacon OneCard. “As a part of that we wanted to install card readers on those classroom doors. That was the driver; how do we get people into classrooms in an organized fashion.”
October 16, 2020
WFMY
Speaker series focuses on civil discussion of opposite sides
The inaugural event of Wake Forest’s Face to Face Speaker Forum will be in a virtual format. On October 20, the University will live-stream a conversation between two leading and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, Peggy Noonan and Eugene Robinson. “We are so excited for this series,” said Michele Gillespie, Dean of the College, “Our hope is that we can provide a civil discussion of opposing viewpoints from accomplished speakers.”
October 16, 2020
Chicago Tribune
This basic urge – to look at what we know we probably shouldn’t look at – may even contain a more basic desire to empathize. In his 2012 book “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away,” Eric Wilson, an English professor at Wake Forest who specializes in the link between literature and psychology, argued our itch to stare into a horror may be partly about recognizing some primal connection with those who have suffered.
October 14, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch to retire in June 2021
“With a grateful spirit for all that we have done together, I share that Julie and I intend to retire from Wake Forest on June 30, 2021,” Hatch said in a message to the Wake Forest community. While acknowledging there is more to be done to assure a successful conclusion to the academic year, Hatch said he and the University’s Board of Trustees felt that now is the appropriate time to make the announcement. “It has been the adventure of a lifetime to lead Wake Forest with you,” Hatch said. “President Hatch’s integrity, humility and unparalleled vision inspire our community and enhance our belief in the institution and one another,” said Gerald Roach, chair of the Board of Trustees.
October 13, 2020
CNN
Poll Defenders, a group of students working to secure on-campus polling sites, drop boxes and satellite offices across the country, is announcing three new on-campus polling sites at New York University, University California (UC), Berkeley and Wake Forest. The sites are a result of the work of a number of student leaders including Izzy McMahon, a college senior, who helped solidify the one stop early voting site on-campus at Wake Forest.
October 12, 2020
North Carolina Health News
Atrium combines with Wake Forest Baptist and its medical school
Creating closer ties with Wake Forest School of Medicine creates educational opportunities for more than 3,500 students in various roles across the healthcare field, Atrium officials said. “It is our privilege to educate and train the next generation of physicians, medical educators, mentors, researchers and health care innovators so that they will chart the course to new clinical discoveries,” said Julie Ann Freischlag, CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Health and dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine.
October 12, 2020
WGHP
“With this combination, we are creating the future of medical education,” said Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch. “As the only entity with two exceptional 4-year medical school locations in our region, we will become one of the largest educators of physicians and other medical professionals in the state – immediately educating over 3,500 total students across more than 100 specialized programs each year – while reducing the shortage of doctors in rural and under-served urban communities.”
October 9, 2020
90.7 WFAE (Charlotte)
NC study finds Latinos, immigrants face unique challenges learning from home
Betina Wilkinson, Wake Forest professor of politics and international affairs, examined the educational effects of the pandemic in Latinos in Forsyth County. She and a group of her students held interviews with a total of 40 parents, teachers and Local nonprofit leaders. Some parents shared that they experienced barriers in helping them with their homework because they weren’t comfortable enough with English. “When the teacher is teaching them, the parents may not really be able to help them as much as they would like with the homework, so older siblings are trying to step in to help,” Wilkinson said.
October 8, 2020
Healthline
9 ways to ease anxiety during Halloween
Since trips to haunted houses and scary movie nights tend to be social events, try leaning on your friends for help and comfort. “Being around people when you are scared can help create a socially soothing response because we look to the faces of others, and we read their emotions,” said Allison Forti, associate director of the online counseling programs at Wake Forest. “One of the good things about emotions being contagious is it can create a calming effect.”
October 8, 2020
The Catholic Spirit
Intimacy brings us closer to another person, we may feel a threatened loss of a sense of self, which we need to function in the world. Samuel Gladding, professor of counseling at Wake Forest, refers to this as the “tolerance of intimacy,” or the ability to sustain emotional closeness. Clearly, creating and tolerating intimacy is a challenging experience in any close relationship, but especially in marriage.
October 6, 2020
The Public Morality Podcast
Christian Miller, Wake Forest philosophy professor, appeared as a guest on “The Public Morality” show to discuss “What is Truth?”
October 6, 2020