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WFU researchers studying impacts of weighted vests and weight loss
Researchers at Wake Forest are studying ways to help adults with obesity lose weight safely. A reduction in bone density can occur when a person loses weight, which can be particularly dangerous for older adults, but weight resistance training can reduce that effect. Wake Forest University has been awarded a grant for nearly three million dollars, which researchers will use to test whether wearing a weighted vest can take the place of resistance training to help maintain bone density and quality in older adults who are trying to lose weight.
January 24, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Jessie Craft, a Latin teacher at Reagan High School in Winston-Salem, is working to make Latin engaging for today’s teenagers and to help combat a decline in Latin program offerings. Mary Pendergraft, a professor and chairwoman of classics at Wake Forest, also said the number of Latin programs has been falling. “That is not always by choice but because of a real problem with not enough Latin teachers,” said Pendergraft, who is also president of the American Classical League, an organization of teachers of Latin and Greek.
January 24, 2020
The Dispatch
Winston-Salem Symphony to present free ‘Concert for Community’
Winston-Salem Symphony and Youth Symphony will perform a Concert for Community at 3 p.m. Jan. 25 at Wait Chapel on Wake Forest’s campus. Under the baton of Tim Redmond, new music director, and Mark Norman, interim youth orchestras program director, the program will feature the combined professional and youth symphonies, totaling approximately 128 musicians, performing multiple pieces.
January 23, 2020
KUNC
SHOT Show: The big business of one of America’s biggest gun trade shows
Over 60,000 people head to Las Vegas each year for The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “SHOT Show,” the main event for the $6 industry. Congressmen and governors alike roll through to woo business to move lucrative production to their state and manufacturers of all sizes show off their wares. “Some manufacturers, as I understand it, write a large proportion of all their orders for the year at the SHOT Show,” said David Yamane, a professor at Wake Forest who writes the blog, Gun Culture 2.0.
January 22, 2020
Psychology Today
Let’s get back to basics: Stop trying to fix your problems just because it’s a new year
Allison McWilliams, assistant vice president of Mentoring and Alumni Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest, says that many of our New Year’s resolutions fail due to unrealistic expectations of ourselves or unrealistic expectations of what achieving our goal will do for our life. Many of us get discouraged and return to our old habits. Instead, McWilliams advises “figure out who you are and what motivates you.”
January 22, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Cornel West, a Harvard professor and social critic, will speak March 20 at Wake Forest
Cornel West, a Harvard University professor and social critic, will speak on March 20 at Wake Forest as part of its “Voices of Our Time” series. The event is free and open to the public. West is a professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton University. He has taught previously at Union Theological Seminary, Yale and Harvard universities, as well as the University of Paris. West has written 20 books and has edited 13 books. He is the author of “Race Matters and Democracy Matters,” and his memoir, “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.” His most recent book, “Black Prophetic Fire,” documents 19th-century and 20th-century African American leaders.
January 22, 2020
Cincinnati Business Journal
Artist who inspired ‘Star Wars’ creator to be featured at Taft Museum
The museum plans several public programs in conjunction with the exhibition. A few of the highlights include an April 2 talk, “Buried Treasures: N. C. Wyeth’s “Illustrations for Treasure Island.” David M. Lubin, the Charlotte Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest, will discuss Wyeth’s famous illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure tale, “Treasure Island.”
January 21, 2020
The Washington Post
Millennial money: Mastering the awkward financial talk
Nathaniel Ivers, an associate professor in the department of counseling at Wake Forest, encourages millennials to own their mistakes if they face awkward conversations about money. He explains that this approach will play better than blaming other people or circumstances. Ivers also recommends asking trusted advisors, like parents and partners, for input and avoid getting defensive if they scrutinize your spending; take their advice into account.
January 21, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Racial progress, but racial problems remain, King Day speaker says
Ibram X. Kendi, a professor of history and international relations at American University, was the keynote speaker in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest for the 20th annual celebration by Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University to honor King’s legacy. In his remarks before Kendi’s speech, Chancellor Elwood Robinson of Winston-Salem State University described Kendi as a great thinker and a rising star among U.S. historians. The United States has achieved racial progress, but the persistence of racial problems is something that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. feared during his life, Kendi said during his speech.
January 21, 2020
88.5 WFDD
Local universities continue tradition of celebrating MLK Day together
On Martin Luther King Day, we remember his legacy and King’s dream of a nation void of racism. The day also offers a chance to reflect on where we are now. To that end, Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State Universities continue their 20-year collaboration co-presenting a keynote speaker for the celebrations. This year, the two schools bring author Ibram Kendi to the Triad. Kendi is American University’s founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
January 20, 2020
WXII
Two Local universities honor Martin Luther King Jr. in longest running partnership
Jan. 20, 2020 marks the 20th year Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State have teamed up to honor the legacy of MLK, making it the longest-running partnership between the two universities. “I think it’s most important now as we face these different polarized times within our country and making sure that we are kind of holding up that dream and making this a place for all people from all backgrounds,” said Jonathan McElderry, WFU assistant dean of students and executive director of the Intercultural Center. WFU and WSSU put on several events together, including a keynote speech by Ibram X. Kendi, in hopes of bringing students, staff members and the community together.
January 20, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Vitruvian Man book launch with Josh Oksanish
Wake Forest professor John Oksanish will speak at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem on Feb. 19. Oksanish will launch his new book, “Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction.” “Vitruvian Man” offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, “On Architecture,” dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. The book explores Vitruvius’ portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing “Vitruvian man” at the dawn of Augustus’ empire.
January 20, 2020