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Winston-Salem Journal
Random testing for coronavirus should be low priority for now, public health researchers say
Mark Hall, a law and public health professor at Wake Forest, said random testing “is an approach that aims to balance public health concerns with civil liberties perspective. It is worth considering, once we have enough testing capacity to not take away from more immediate and critical testing needs, which hopefully will be soon.”
April 6, 2020
WRAL Techwire
Triangle headliners: 48 webinars & events to add to your April calendar
Wake Forest hosted a virtual panel on April 7 with experts discussing climate solutions in the state of North Carolina.
April 6, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Gray area of what comprises essential businesses has socioeconomic consequences
Mark Hall, a law and public-health professor at Wake Forest, said that “there is reason to be concerned about the potential for Local definition of essential services to play favorites to particular businesses. The temptation to seize customers from competitors in nearby markets, and then the need to protect Local business from lost sales, could undermine the will of most communities to restrict Local business leaders who do not willingly pause operations.”
April 5, 2020
The Sustainable Century
Adrian Bardon, a philosopher at Wake Forest and foremost expert in the field of truth and denial, appeared as a guest on “The Sustainable Century Solutions Podcast.” He addressed denial, worldview and human cognition and how we might overcome science denial. “We live in this media environment where people are able to pick and choose what their source of authoritative information is going to be. That has supercharged our natural tendency towards confirmation bias when it comes to issues we care about or issues that threaten our ideological beliefs in some ways. That’s when we engage in selective assessment of expertise.”
April 4, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest University hosts 12-hour virtual dance-a-thon
This year’s Wake ‘N Shake, a 12-hour dance marathon designed to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund, was held virtually with students joining in from all across the country. About 1,000 people registered for this year’s event on April 4, and organizers had a $400,000 fundraising goal.
April 4, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
COVID-19 can’t stop creativity, but artists still need support
Christina Soriano, the associate provost for the arts at Wake Forest, championed the value and essential nature of the arts. “The pandemic has shuttered arts and cultural organizations from Broadway to the Stevens Center, forcing arts and cultural organizations everywhere to lay off their staff. Yet miraculously, artists have responded with an outpouring of generosity.”
April 4, 2020
Inside Sources
Without Fed fix, coronavirus rescue package could crush home mortgage market
“It’s so surprising, I couldn’t believe it was true when I first heard it. I had to double check,” said Wake Forest economics professor James Otteson about details of the mortgage forbearance proposal in the $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. The CARES Act says any mortgage borrower can stop making payments by claiming they’re suffering an economic hardship as a direct or indirect result of the COVID-19 crisis. The borrower does not have to provide proof they’ve lost income, and the act expressly prohibits their lenders from even asking.
April 3, 2020
WGHP
Finding hope: Rev. Jonathan Walton
Spiritual leaders around the Piedmont Triad are offering up hopeful messages during this coronavirus pandemic. Rev. Jonathan Walton, dean of the Wake Forest School of Divinity, shared an uplifting video with the community. “I wish I could tell you that things will be back to normal real soon on this campus, but I cannot. But I can tell you this. If we stand for one another, if we with one another, if we do not allow physical distancing to disrupt our social and spiritual proximity, then I believe that you and I can ultimately sing with confidence, ‘that I got a feeling everything is going to be alright.’”
April 3, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Drive-in church gaining favor among some congregations
People of all faith backgrounds are finding unusual ways to come together during this crisis, said Jill Crainshaw, a professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at Wake Forest. “In these uncertain days, being together as people of faith, even in peculiar and unexpected ways, is important because of the hope and strength people find in seeing each other’s faces and hearing each other’s voices. In those simple acts and gestures, they are reminded that God is with them, a belief and hope that is at the center of many religious traditions.”
April 3, 2020
Business Insurance
University risk managers adapt to empty campuses, remote work
Julie Groves, director, risk services, financial services for Wake Forest, said the pandemic has “certainly changed risk management because everything right now is all centered around the virus.” The university’s students are gone, except for about 400 students who may have travel restrictions. “Right now, we’re still managing the risk of who is still going to campus,” who are considered essential employees, “making sure their exposure is minimized, and making sure those students who remain are able to get the services they need.”
April 2, 2020
Mongabay
A third of Peru’s La Pampa forest cleared for illegal mining ponds, study finds
Luis Fernández, executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) and assistant research professor in the university’s biology department, said restoration plans for areas that now contain ponds are practically impossible to execute, given that trees cannot be planted where the ground no longer exists. “A vast and novel complex of wetlands has been created in an area that, historically, was primary tropical forest, radically altering biodiversity and the potential recuperation of the ground.
April 2, 2020
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
Law schools move online and into new grading systems
North Carolina law school deans told Lawyers Weekly that the transition has been surprisingly seamless, for the most part. Jane Aiken, dean of Wake Forest School of Law, teaches a class and called online instruction a “rich learning environment,” with students engaged, paying attention, and asking questions. But disagreements have arisen over how to mostly fairly and accurately grade students under the current conditions. Aiken said that Wake Forest opted for a credit/no-credit system rather than a pass/fail one because a “fail” designation could wreck students’ GPA. The pass/fail system would be especially burdensome on students who were close to passing a course, but didn’t because of the stressful circumstances that COVID-19 has brought them as they earn their law degree remotely.
April 2, 2020