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Spectrum News
How the pandemic can strengthen bonds between fathers and daughters
Wake Forest professor and author Linda Nielsen says more time at home during the pandemic is strengthening family bonds, particularly between fathers and daughters. She encourages families to take advantage of the time during the stay-at-home orders to have meaningful discussions. “Those conversations of getting to know each other need to take place when we’re alive and well,” Nielsen said. “These reminders of death and illness are just a catalyst in the pandemic. A catalyst for us to think about that time is running out. And the time to deepen your relationship, and father-daughter relationship is now.”
May 15, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Low-profile Sen. Burr becomes polarizing political figure with stock sales
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is facing potential U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission probes into stock sales made a week before the stock market began its sharp coronavirus-related decline. “I don’t think there was any other possible outcome after news emerged of the search warrant being served than for Burr to step aside from his Intelligence committee chairmanship while investigations continue,” said John Dinan, Wake Forest political science professor.
May 15, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Riverrun virtual theatre opens today
RiverRun’s 2020 Pitch Fest competition was held virtually this year in light of COVID-19 and the cancellation of the festival. Pitch Fest invites student filmmakers to pitch their ideas for new documentaries to a panel of expert judges. First place was awarded to Yuqi Lu from the Wake Forest Documentary Film Program for “Painting Your Room in My Heart.” Winners will receive cash prizes to help fund their projects, and all students received constructive feedback from judges.
May 15, 2020
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Pence, DeVos discuss college reopening with 14 college leaders
Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch is one of the 14 college and university leaders who joined a call with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on the subject of “best practices to get students back to school in the fall,” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They were joined by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and discussed CDC guidance on how higher education institutions should prepare, plan and respond to the coronavirus.
May 14, 2020
Commonweal Magazine
Material world: Religion in Vogue
If you’re not flipping through fashion glossies for insights into the American religious landscape, maybe you should be. “Fashion history is religious history,” argues Lynn S. Neal, professor of religious studies at Wake Forest. She makes a compelling case for the claim in her latest book, “Religion in Vogue,” according to Commonweal Magazine’s review.
May 13, 2020
Inside Higher Ed
The HyFlex option for instruction if campuses open this fall
Betsy Barre, executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest, said she saw professors and institutions embracing hybrid-flexible models as if they could just put a camera in the classroom and let far-flung students listen in — “kind of a 1990s distance learning,” she said. “It may be a convenient fix to ensure social distancing, but I’m worried it’s popular because it allows schools to say they’re offering face-to-face courses without having to change much to stay safe,” she said. She stressed the importance of differentiating between the sort of “blended synchronous” approach many professors used to conduct their classes via Zoom this spring, versus the fully developed online and face-to-face pathways.
May 13, 2020
Forbes
Waiting for the tsunami: The mediated narrative of COVID-19 in India
Ananda Mitra, professor of communication at Wake Forest, wrote about the troubling way in which certain segments of media choose to represent the impact of COVID-19 on different parts of the World. “The use of language, images, and the representation continues to reproduce narratives that display certain countries from the orientalist perspective,” said Mitra. Western media outlets have continued an “orientalist refrain of unpreparedness and backwardness” when predicting COVID-19 outcomes in India, though rates of infection in the country have remained low.
May 12, 2020
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