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Ama Journal Of Ethics
Ethics Talk: Quality of life assessments in reconstructive transplantation
Ana Iltis, a professor of philosophy and the director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society at Wake Forest, appeared on the AMA Journal of Ethics’ monthly podcast, “Ethics Talk,” to describe what patients and physicians should know about ethical dimensions of uterus transplantation. “Uterus transplantation raises ethical issues that range from broad policy decisions to matters related to individual donors, recipients, and future children,” said Iltis. “At the level of social policy or practice there are questions about whether to commit more resources to research on uterus transplantation (UTx), or to cover the costs of UTx.”
November 3, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
It’s not surprising that North Carolina legislators are lagging behind other states with age-21 restrictions, said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “This is an issue that only recently emerged on the agenda of many state legislatures in a serious way. Sometimes, movements of this kind just take a few years before they spread more broadly and fully to various regions.”
November 3, 2019
News & Record
‘Serial’ host, creator to visit WFU
Sarah Koenig, host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning podcast “Serial,” shared insights into audio journalism with WFDD reporter Bethany Chafin Monday, Nov. 4. Launched in 2014, “Serial” is credited with bringing mainstream attention to the podcast format and has been downloaded more than 420 million times, making it the most listened-to podcast in the history of the form.
November 2, 2019
NPR
Book: ‘Faith in American Public Life’
Melissa Rogers, visiting professor at the Wake Forest School of Divinity, appeared on “All Things Considered” to discuss her new book, Faith in American Public Life. Rogers previously served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. “I would hope that people would take it upon themselves to act on the best American traditions and stand up for people of different religions, of different beliefs in our country right now – to view it not as something that is just the responsibility of elected leaders but that is a requirement of citizenship.”
November 2, 2019
The Atlantic
An invader’s less-than-elegant move from water to land
With the help of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Wake Forest graduate student Noah Bressman, caught several hundred northern snakehead fish. He then subjected them to a battery of poor water conditions, including low oxygen, low pH, high pH, salt water, hydrogen sulfide, and crowding. Bressman’s study lays out a case that snakehead fish can emerge from water when conditions are poor—to find better places to live.
November 2, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
WFU artist to ‘play ball’ on U.S. border
It’s a whole new ballgame for artist, filmmaker and Wake Forest associate professor Joel Tauber who will undertake a 40-day pilgrimage along the U.S.-Mexico border to build community through baseball. Last week, Tauber started at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, and walked along the border wall before heading north 2 miles to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. He will travel there and back again each day — a 6-mile journey that connects legal entry to the United States with the border wall and the detention center holding those who might be in the country without all legal permits.
November 2, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake students picked for competition
A team of Wake Forest computer-science students has been chosen from a pool of 31 applicants worldwide to compete in the Student Cluster Competition of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 17-22 in Denver. The six students on the team will build a supercomputer that must run a series of applications to win, the university said. They will work around the clock for four consecutive days. The team, which is one of only four U.S.-based teams to compete this year, is sponsored by Cisco and NVIDIA; travel expenses for the trip are covered by an alumni donation.
November 2, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Legislature adjourns with many pivotal loose ends remaining
The N.C. General Assembly went into adjournment Thursday with most pressing budget funding issues addressed during the 10-month long session. Given that the projected state budget for 2019-20 has not been signed into law, and no Medicaid expansion legislation advanced, some legislative analysts and observers have questioned why the four-month, often high-political theater was necessary. “Some business was handled that may not have been handled if the legislature had adjourned by July 1,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “But, much of the legislation passed since the start of July could likely have been handled next spring.”
November 2, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Mahan Esfahani will perform Nov. 14 at Wake Forest’s Brendle Recital Hall. The concert will feature a mix of early works for the harpsichord, paired with contemporary pieces for the instrument. Peter Kairoff, a Wake Forest professor, will give a pre-concert talk.
November 2, 2019
News & Record
Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia will chat at Wake Forest in the Broyhill Auditorium on Nov. 11. Burr is a Republican, Warner is a Democrat, and their discussion “will highlight how two leaders from opposite sides of the aisle are able to work together on issues of national importance.” This is the first event presented by the Richard Burr Center for Legislative Studies. Burr, a Wake Forest alum, announced last year that he will donate his Congressional papers to the university.
November 1, 2019
91.5 WUNC
Dis-embodied: The legal challenges of our death-denying culture
Tanya Marsh is a law professor at Wake Forest and teaches one of the nation’s few, if not only, courses on funeral and cemetery law. In a recent interview, Marsh discussed the intersection of death and the law, and how we live in a death-denying culture. “We have this real ongoing tension between these real, strict rigid protections of the dead. And then the practical reality that we don’t always live up to that.”
October 31, 2019
ABC News
In North Carolina, legal actions could have a big impact in the upcoming 2020 election
In North Carolina, a closely-watched swing state that for years has had lawsuits winding through the courts amid partisan claims of voter disenfranchisement, a new series of legal actions could have a big impact in the upcoming 2020 election. On Monday, state and national Democrats filed a lawsuit to overturn the early voting restrictions put in place in 2018 by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, but overridden by the General Assembly and signed into law. Following a swell in early voting in 2018, state Republicans in North Carolina lost their veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate. Many of these fights can be traced down to the competitive nature of the state, according to John Dinan, a politics professor at Wake Forest. “You have a very competitive state in North Carolina. And so you had a Republican legislature that kind of was able to redraw the maps after the 2010 census and also make some changes to voting rules. It’s no surprise that [Democratic] groups have said, ‘Look, let’s see what we can do to push back against this and see if we can win some more seats in North Carolina.’”
October 31, 2019