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Winston-Salem Journal
Photos: Mask the City’s Senior Day distributes masks across Winston-Salem
It was Senior Day on Tuesday for Winston-Salem’s Mask the City project. Teams of volunteers provided free face masks to people 65 and older at nine drive-thru locations throughout the city. Officials said last week that 20,000 masks would be given away. Photographs of Wake Forest employee volunteers are featured in this Winston-Salem Journal photo story.
May 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Push for quicker reopening of the state not unexpected, experts say
How and when it is best to reopen “is a difficult decision on which reasonable minds can differ,” said Mark Hall, a law and public-health professor at Wake Forest. “It is wise to rely on well-considered guidance that balances the competing concerns and interests. It would be unfortunate if the options divided into partisan political camps.” “I’m not surprised to see Republican members of the Council of State join some Republican state legislators in urging the governor to consider a speedier reopening time frame,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest and a national expert on state legislatures.
May 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest professor studies realities of COVID-19 immunity ‘passports’
Wake Forest health law professor Mark Hall and Stanford University’s David Studdert released a brief last week in the Journal of American Medical Association that discussed the concept of “an immunity passport.” The passport would certify that the individual has developed antibodies to the novel coronavirus that gives them a level of immunity, allowing them to be given “time-limited work and social freedoms.” Hall and his co-author assert that antibody testing and immunity passports raise “a host of important legal, ethical and policy concerns that will not wait for greater scientific certainty.”
May 11, 2020
Yes! Magazine
Gun sales are up across Appalachia. Here’s why
David Yamane, a professor of sociology at Wake Forest who studies gun culture, says first-time buyers are often purchasing some peace of mind, because of a personal trauma or fears about their neighborhoods or society. “I think the intended purpose of the purchase is physical security, and they are also attempting to buy some psychological security,” he said. While people are flooded with anxiety right now—over their health, their jobs, their savings—the gun allows them to put down the worry they’ll be defenseless against desperate hordes. “If they can’t have anything else under control, they know they have that one thing under control.”
May 11, 2020
Enlace Latino Nc
Many citizens have seen their right to choose their representatives restricted because, although in theory nothing prevents them from voting, the lack of information in their native languages it does not allow their effective participation in the elections. For Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, professor in the department of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest, “the problem is that it is difficult to obtain an accurate estimate of the rate of people who cannot read English “If we create an environment in which Latinos feel that their vote is important and that what is at stake in the elections is relevant, they will participate.”
May 10, 2020
The Record Nepal
The underlying threat of social distancing
“In South Asia, where [social distancing] has unfurled into a spider’s web of practices, it also directs violence, exclusion and bigotry upon marginalized people whose only ‘sin’ is caste, occupation or descent,” said Wake Forest associate professor of cultural anthropology Steve Folmar in his recent article for The Record Nepal. “Through a complex and pervasive set of exclusive, degrading and threatening practices known once as untouchability and now as social distancing, privileged castes have marginalized others and deprived them of basic human dignity,” he said. “Despite a legal embargo against the practice of untouchability, social distancing has direct ties to the normalization of untouchability, human exploitation and the violation of human rights.”
May 8, 2020
Bloomberg Law
Short-staffed EPA leans on older adjunct workers, with no raises
The EPA’s Senior Environmental Employment program was created nearly forty years ago to let older workers use their skills at the EPA while keeping active and earning some extra money. Without a full complement of older workers in the program, the EPA’s capabilities “would suffer significantly” because the agency would have to shift full-time staffers into jobs now being done by the retiree corps, said Stan Meiburg, who served as the EPA’s acting deputy administrator in the Obama administration. “EPA has been short-staffed for many years,” said Meiburg, now director of the graduate program in sustainability at Wake Forest. “Many of the high-profile things the agency does—like issuing permits, doing enforcement actions, doing Superfund—depend upon back-office functions that you don’t see, but are nevertheless essential.”
May 7, 2020
Elemental
It’s time to learn how to microdose anticipation
“Anticipation is very important — it underlies things like optimism and hope,” said Christian Waugh, Wake Forest associate professor of psychology. “And positive anticipation is something that goes away when people are depressed.” Unfortunately, it can also go away when people feel uncertain about the future. And these days, uncertainty is rampant. One helpful remedy during COVID-19 is to inject life with small, short-term sources of happy anticipation. “You can still anticipate positive events, but you may have to scale it back — microdose it, if you will,” said Waugh. “Instead of thinking big or way in the future, think smaller and closer in time.”
May 7, 2020
Tech Announcer
The interaction of poetry and physics was the pursuit of poet and Wake Forest assistant professor of English Amy Catanzano when she created “World Lines: A Quantum Supercomputer Poem.” which translates the quantum theory behind a topological quantum computer in both its word choices and its visual structure, a practice Catanzano calls quantum poetics. “My aim was to write a poem that served as an imaginative and rigorous site of interaction between poetry and physics.”
May 7, 2020
Vox
Why time feels so weird right now
“What we call internal time, or subjective time, is very complex. There’s no such thing as one internal clock that we then compare to an external clock. Our brains are these really complex ad hoc systems that are doing a lot of functions at the same time. They’re constantly integrating information and coordinating action,” said Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest. “What we call our internal clock is actually a whole bunch of internal clocks…There’s a lot of stuff going on all at the same time that all have to do with our internal sense of the passage of time. And with all that complexity, it’s no wonder that sometimes our sense of the passage of time can get weird, under weird circumstances, when we’re in a weird mood.”
May 7, 2020
WGHP
Heidi Robinson, assistant vice president for career education & coaching at Wake Forest, says even during these uncertain times, students can still get important experience to improve their resumes for college or job applications. Formal internships probably aren’t available, so Robinson encourages students to be open to helping with short-term projects. “All of the job functions that would happen in a corporation, happen in a nonprofit too. They need help with social media, they need help with organization – all sorts of things.”
May 7, 2020
Yes! Weekly
When dance goes digital at Wake Forest University
Dance professor Kara Wilkes said she saw the move to remote learning as an opportunity for students to engage dance as a tool for processing change. One remote assignment was to film a 45-second self-choreographed work with only the upper body. Another was to choose an inanimate prop and incorporate it into a one-minute dance. “I adjusted the syllabus to be sensitive to physical space and technology limitations that our students might face. Giving the students agency to choreograph allowed many to express what they have been experiencing during this pandemic.”
May 7, 2020