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USA Today
Everything you need to know about coronavirus, the deadly illness alarming the world
Pat Lord, teaching professor in the department of biology at Wake Forest, said this particular outbreak probably came from a virus that originated in bats and another animal, and then transformed to be able to infect humans. Health experts have confirmed human-to-human transmission in a number of countries. Similarly, SARS originated from a fruit bat that was transmitted to civet cats and then eaten as a delicacy in China, Lord said. “Bats seem to be a reservoir for quite a few viruses, like the rabies, Ebola or the Marburg virus.”
January 29, 2020
Gothamist
Kami Chavis, a law professor who directs the Criminal Justice Program at Wake Forest School of Law, is an expert on hate crime laws and said it’s important for the federal government to step in and file charges. But she said it’s unusual for the federal government to do so when the Local prosecutor has already taken action. She questioned whether there could be political overtones given the controversy over New York’s new bail reform. “There’s been an uptick in hate crimes since 2016,” she noted. “Why now? Why this case? There’s so many other horrific cases where the federal government has not intervened.”
January 28, 2020
Men's Health
Is cardio or weight training your best option for losing weight? According to a study by Wake Forest, restricting calories combined with resistance training meant people were able to keep their muscle and still lose significant amounts of fat, when compared to adults who combined weight loss with walking or who simply tried to just lose weight by dieting. If you’re looking to lose weight then, pumping iron is the way to go.
January 27, 2020
Public Radio International
These scientists created a ‘cloud curtain’ in Peru’s tropical forests to mimic the future
The elevational gradient of flora in cloud forests is small, limiting species to a very narrow climatic range. “When we look at individual tree species, we can see them starting to shift themselves upslope,” said Miles Silman, a biologist at Wake Forest. In the past, cloud forests have been able to keep up with warming temperatures. “But the climate change we have now is an order of magnitude — about 30 times faster than things have changed in the past. It’s unclear whether things can keep up,” he said.
January 27, 2020
WalletHub
HSBC credit cards: Ask the experts
Bill Marcum, Wall Street Partners Faculty Fellow, undergraduate finance program director and associate professor of finance at the Wake Forest School of Business, answered questions about HSBC credit cards. In response to a question about HSBC’s small share of the U.S. credit market, Marcum said, “of course, HSBC is a giant in Europe. It made its first entry into the U.S. credit market with the purchase of Household (consumer credit) in 2003. That purchase eventually resulted in a $10.6 write-off in 2009, which was directly related to the ‘housing crisis’ — they loaded their balance sheet with subprime mortgages.” Though HSBC ran back to their well-understood home market, they have just begun to creep back into the U.S. credit card market.
January 27, 2020
Massive Science
Scientists recreated a key step for the origin of life at hydrothermal vents
Cassie Freund, Wake Forest ecologist and doctoral candidate, wrote an article for Massive Science about a novel study on hydrothermal vents and their ability to support life. Freund explained that, “scientific theories for how life evolved broadly fall into three categories.” One of those theories, she said, “hinges on the last major ecosystem discovered on our planet: deep-sea hydrothermal vents.” Although the hydrothermal vents “contain elements and conditions conducive to metabolic pathways that scientists believe were necessary for the evolution of life,” researchers have not been able to prove that cellular vesicles – necessary for life – can form in this environment. Recent finding show, however, that “beyond being merely acceptable for vesicle formation, very hot and alkaline conditions are actually ideal. While this study doesn’t prove that the genesis of life occurred on deep ocean vents, it shows that it is certainly a possibility.”
January 26, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Works by Robert Motherwell on display
Wake Forest’s Hanes Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of works by Robert Motherwell, “Motherwell: product. placement,” through March 29 in Scales Fine Arts Center. Motherwell, an abstract expressionist painter, printmaker and editor, was one of the youngest members of the New York School, which included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Motherwell taught at Black Mountain College in the 1950s.
January 25, 2020
Record-Courier (Ohio)
Harris-Perry featured as keynote speaker at KSU’s Martin Luther King celebration
Melissa Harris-Perry was the keynote speaker of the Kent State University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Harris-Perry, the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest, television host, author and political commentator questioned whether a divided nation could build Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a beloved community. Harris-Perry explained she didn’t have an answer and told the audience, “my goal is to raise the question to provide a framework for how you think about that question and then we, collectively will over time decide what the answer is.”
January 24, 2020
WGHP
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