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Smithsonian
The complicated legacy of Herbert Spencer, the man who coined ‘survival of the fittest’
Herbert Spencer imagined a better, more moral society, and believed the best way to achieve that goal was “to let the market loose,” said David Weinstein, a political scientist at Wake Forest. Weinstein said Spencer advocated the idea that “those who survive the struggle are by definition not only the fittest but also morally the best. So it’s defining ‘good’ as ‘survival.’ Whatever survives is by definition good.” Though later thinkers and critics accused Spencer of mistakenly trying to derive morality and ethics from nature, Weinstein noted that his writings “have been adopted and appropriated by socialists as much as by libertarians,” and asserted that Spencer’s ideas have shaped modern liberalism.
May 1, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Wake Forest graduate student, Winston-Salem family supporting Local businesses, healthcare workers
Wake Forest graduate student Sydney Poretsky joined forces with a Local family to launch Fuel the Fight Winston-Salem, an initiative to raise money to purchase meals from Local restaurants and provide them to area healthcare workers. As of May 1, Fuel the Fight Winston-Salem has raised $30,598 and provided nearly 2,400 meals to health care workers at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center and Novant Health Medical Park Hospital. “The number one thing we’re learning from this project is how incredible the Winston-Salem community is,” said Poretsky, a first-year communication graduate student. “In just three days, we hit $15,000 and the money kept coming in. We’ve met our goal, but people are still donating money and we will use it to support the Local restaurants and healthcare workers.”
May 1, 2020
91.5 WUNC
The news between four walls: Student journalists cover the home front
Journalism professor Justin Catanoso asked his students throughout the semester to cover campus events as if they were writing for the student newspaper. But with all his students now off-campus, he asked them to cover the pandemic as they saw it from their homes. “Suddenly these kids are sitting on the biggest story in the world and their sources are under their own roof. I realized I had to adapt the assignment to allow them to rise to this moment.”
April 30, 2020
Institute For Family Studies
An ‘un-distancing’ pandemic proposal for fathers and daughters
“The Covid-19 crisis presents a rare and much-needed opportunity to repair and strengthen father–daughter relationships. Like the virus, the impact of a distant, superficial, or estranged relationship with dad can range from mild to life-threatening for a daughter,” said Linda Nielsen, Wake Forest education professor and expert on father-daughter relationships. “I urge fathers and daughters to use the disheartening, frightening Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for creating a more meaningful relationship with each other that will outlast this crisis.”
April 30, 2020
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