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Two Local universities honor Martin Luther King Jr. in longest running partnership
Jan. 20, 2020 marks the 20th year Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State have teamed up to honor the legacy of MLK, making it the longest-running partnership between the two universities. “I think it’s most important now as we face these different polarized times within our country and making sure that we are kind of holding up that dream and making this a place for all people from all backgrounds,” said Jonathan McElderry, WFU assistant dean of students and executive director of the Intercultural Center. WFU and WSSU put on several events together, including a keynote speech by Ibram X. Kendi, in hopes of bringing students, staff members and the community together.
January 20, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Vitruvian Man book launch with Josh Oksanish
Wake Forest professor John Oksanish will speak at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem on Feb. 19. Oksanish will launch his new book, “Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction.” “Vitruvian Man” offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, “On Architecture,” dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. The book explores Vitruvius’ portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing “Vitruvian man” at the dawn of Augustus’ empire.
January 20, 2020
Herald Net (Everett, Wa)
Commentary: Sole parental custody not a benefit to children
Research conducted by Linda Nielsen, a professor of adolescent and educational psychology at Wake Forest, is cited in an op-ed that considers a Washington state legislature proposal to encourage courts to seek custody plans that involve both parents. Nielson’s research indicates that, although shared custody between divorced parents often leads to parental conflict, children who live with each parent at least 35 percent of the time in a shared-parenting joint custody plan had better outcomes than children in sole physical custody families.
January 19, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Photos: When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Winston-Salem
The Winston-Salem Journal published photos of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s October 1962 visit to Wake Forest. When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest College campus, he told a crowd of 2,200 that, “the hope of the world lies in the emergence of a society of the creative maladjusted.” He said that Jefferson was maladjusted enough to declare that “all men are created equal.” Old reel-to-reel magnetic tapes of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1962 address have been digitized and made available to the public.
January 19, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Local actors will perform play to mark Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood’s Forsyth County Education Committee on the Advisory Council will present “Shout Your Abortion,” a performance and discussion, at Krankies in downtown Winston-Salem on Jan. 22 to mark the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 1973. Actors from the 40-Plus Stage Co., Wake Forest, UNC School of the Arts and more will perform the script, based on “Shout Your Abortion,” a collection of stories by women who have had abortions.
January 18, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Afternoon of poetry and remembrances
Ed and Emily Wilson presented an afternoon of poetry and remembrances of the poet A.R. Ammons 3-4:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in the Special Collections and Archives of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest. Ammons and his family spent the 1973-1974 school year at Wake Forest, living near the Wilsons in a faculty neighborhood, in what turned out to be the beginning of a 30-year friendship. Emily Wilson’s most recent book, “When I Go Back to My Home Country: A Remembrance of Archie Ammons,” chronicles that friendship.
January 18, 2020
Refinery29
Author, commentator Melissa Harris-Perry to headline Kent State’s MLK Celebration
Television host, author and political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry will be the keynote speaker at Kent State University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 24. Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest, where she serves as the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, whose mission is to advance justice through intersectional scholarship. She is also the founder of the innovative, bipartisan program Wake the Vote.
January 17, 2020
The Christian Science Monitor
What Virginia gun rally says about future of Second Amendment rights
“The reason people are coming in from everywhere in the country [to the rally] is that they sense that what happens in Virginia is going to set a tone for what can happen in other states that may be making the same sort of movement from right back to more left,” says David Yamane, founder of the blog Gun Culture 2.0, and a sociologist at Wake Forest.
January 17, 2020
Business Insider
Intelligent.com announces best Master’s in Human Services degree programs for 2020
Wake Forest has been recognized by Intelligent.com, appearing on their recently announced Top 30 Master’s in Human Services Degree Programs for 2020. Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning, evaluates each program based on curriculum quality, graduation rate, reputation and post-graduate employment. The 2020 rankings are calculated through a unique scoring system which includes student engagement, potential return on investment and leading third party evaluations.
January 16, 2020
Huffington Post
Rate of extinction hundreds of times higher than average: UN report
A new United Nations proposal outlines a path for combating the biodiversity crisis by protecting nearly one-third of all lands and oceans and slashing major sources of pollution by the end of the decade. In a 2017 report, U.N. Special Rapporteur John Knox, a human rights expert and professor of international law at Wake Forest, wrote that biodiversity loss has “grave and far-reaching implications for human well-being,” including reduced fishery and agriculture yields, depleted sources of medicine and increased infectious diseases.
January 16, 2020
Science
Academic bullying: Desperate for data and solutions
Business professor and organizational studies expert Sherry Moss and Morteza Mahmoudi, a nanoscientist at Michigan State University started a collaborative project to do an anonymous global survey about academic bullying in higher education. They hope to capture the details of academic bullying—the portion of people who witness and who experience it, the targets’ positions, their ethnicity, gender, citizenship status, the outcome of any investigations, or the reasons why they might have stayed silent about it.
January 16, 2020
WFMY
USPS to unveil Arnold Palmer Forever Stamp in March
Since 1847, the Postal Service stamp program has celebrated the people, events and cultural milestones unique to the history of the United States. In honor of that celebration, the U.S. Postal Service will dedicate a stamp honoring legendary Wake Forest golfer and PGA Champion Arnold Palmer.
January 16, 2020