This form updates results automatically as you select options. Disable live searching
National Science Foundation
4 awesome discoveries you probably didn’t hear about: Episode 36
The National Science Foundation’s YouTube series highlighted research published by Wake Forest doctoral candidate Noah Bressman in Integrative Organismal Biology and funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Bressman’s research found that the invasive northern snakehead fish will voluntarily leave bodies of water that are too acidic, salty or high in carbon dioxide.
October 30, 2019
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Arnold Palmer Trust granted $1.5 million to Wake Forest to endow the Winifred W. Palmer professorship in literature.
October 30, 2019
Triad Business Journal
Power players 2019: Nathan Hatch
While Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch leads the third-largest university in the region and 11th largest in the state, he ranks among the region’s Power Players because of his impact in downtown Winston-Salem. Under his leadership, Wake Forest Innovation Quarter has emerged as a medical and tech hub, and the opening of Wake Downtown in 2017 and the new engineering school have amplified Wake Forest Baptist’s impact. As of early 2019, a fundraising campaign launched in 2013 called “Wake Will Lead” has raised $900 million, with a goal of $1 billion by 2020.
October 30, 2019
Vox
Exhuming bodies: What lies beneath
The very idea of disturbing the dead has been a source of angst and spooky entertainment for much of recorded history, and digging up bones remains taboo, in part because many religions forbid the practice. Exhumations, however, continue across the globe. While no one knows how many are carried out globally each year, forensic experts extract DNA from human remains for criminal investigations, genealogical research, and identification of victims of war; and government agencies can relocate entire cemeteries to make space for a new skyscraper, bigger airports, or hydroelectric dams. “I have talked to people who have been involved in disinterments of older cemeteries,” says Tanya Marsh, a law professor at Wake Forest specializing in funeral and cemetery law. “There’s no intact casket, there’s no intact skeleton. They can find the casket handles because they’re metal. It’s just discolored soil.” Still, many consider that discolored dirt to be human remains. Since the advent of Roman law, Marsh says, “real estate that contains human remains is never just soil again.”
October 30, 2019
WXII
Hundreds attend Project Pumpkin festival, commemorate moon landing
The rain didn’t stop hundreds of trick-or-treaters from enjoying themselves at Wake Forest. The school moved its annual Project Pumpkin festival indoors. Students and staff set up a carnival with games, prizes and lots of candy. “There’s nothing quite like watching them get off the bus. There’s all this energy. I mean, Halloween is not necessarily the most popular holiday for college-aged students,” said John Crumbler, a student at Wake Forest. “But when they come with their costumes, with their energy, they’re so excited to get this candy, play the games that our student organizations set up. It’s a lot of fun for us.”
October 30, 2019
Harvard Business Review
Why likable leaders seem more effective
Sherry Moss, professor of organizational studies at Wake Forest’s School of Business, co-authored an article about leadership and likability. Moss and her colleagues’ research showed that, “subordinates tend to rate leaders based on their personal liking of that leader rather than the leader’s actual behaviors. This is evidenced by the fact that our highly reliable measure of leader liking was positively correlated with other, more traditional leadership measures like authentic leadership, transformational leadership, ethical leadership, and leader-employee relationship quality and was negatively correlated to abusive supervision. This means that if subordinates indicated they liked their leader, then they also rated them as more transformational, authentic, and ethical (and less abusive).”
October 29, 2019
News & Record
GOP leaders in N.C. Senate again postpone vote to override state budget veto
John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest, and a national expert on state legislatures, said “if there can be some compromise reached on some of these education and tax issues, then these could be handled through various separate budget adjustment acts that would be passed alongside of or around the same time as the budget veto would be overridden.” Dinan said any Democratic senator who would vote to override the budget veto “will want to be assured of the passage of separate budget adjustment bills to increase teacher salaries even further than in the budget and perhaps address other negotiation items.”
October 29, 2019
Pulitzer Center
2019 reporting fellows: Washington Weekend day one
On Oct. 18-19, the Pulitzer Center hosted its sixth annual Campus Consortium Student Fellows Washington Weekend. Pulitzer Center reporting fellows come from 36 universities, journalism schools, HBCUs, schools of public health, community colleges, and liberal arts colleges. Rafael Alves de Lima, Pulitzer Fellow and Wake Forest student, reported on Indigenous populations in Brazil (specifically the villages of Catu and Sagi/Trabanda) who face the threat of having their territory taken away by agribusiness. “Since their territory is not really official, they cannot seek governmental protection. They’re exposed for action from outsiders.”
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
On Nov. 21 at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem, Wake Forest’s department of art will present “Vesna Pavlovic’s Lost Art,” which contextualizes Pavlovic’s photographs and installations in relationship to art history, the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, and contemporary display practice through five essays by award-winning art historians and curators. The artist’s portfolio will also be displayed. A panel discussion with Pavlovic, Paul Bright, and Morna O’Neill will follow.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest will present “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, Nov. 1-3 and 7-10 on the Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center. “The Crucible” is a powerfully entertaining drama that resonates just as deeply now as it did in the 1950s.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Jennifer Teege will speak in Wake Forests Pugh Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 12. Teege’s maternal grandfather was Austrian Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth. Her 2015 book, “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past,” was a New York Times best-seller.
October 28, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
On Nov. 21 at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem, Wake Forest’s department of art will present “Vesna Pavlovic’s Lost Art,” which contextualizes Pavlovic’s photographs and installations in relationship to art history, the legacy of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, and contemporary display practice through five essays by award-winning art historians and curators. The artist’s portfolio will also be displayed. A panel discussion with Pavlovic, Paul Bright, and Morna O’Neill will follow.
October 28, 2019