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Coping with Corona: WFU professor creates video series to help
Christian Waugh, a Wake Forest associate professor of psychology and expert in stress and coping, has created a video series discussing the science behind coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The series, hosted on YouTube, features Waugh talking about topics like resilience, problem-focused coping, distraction and avoidances, positive emotions, the power of amusement and the brain. While he doesn’t give tips, tricks or advice through his videos, Waugh covers research on coping and how people successfully cope in different situations.
April 23, 2020
Voice Of America
Amid coronavirus, concerns grow over fate of Americans held in Iran, Syria
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, U.S. officials are expressing concern about the safety of American citizens held abroad, especially in countries that are hostile to the U.S, such as Iran and Syria. Randall Rogan, an expert on hostage negotiation who teaches communication at Wake Forest, said there are “two-pronged” options to address this issue. First, the U.S. State Department on behalf of the government can make some positive gestures of goodwill, such as releasing frozen funds or other economic conditions in exchange for the health and well-being, or even the release of detainees. “The second prong would be the punitive approach, by which actions might be taken to put more negative pressure, such as sanctions, on the governments or various leaders directly.”
April 22, 2020
Vox
Senators are demanding a solution to police stopping black men for wearing — and not wearing — masks
A group of six US senators sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the FBI demanding immediate anti-bias training for law enforcement officials amid the coronavirus pandemic. The senators wrote with urgency, spurred by recent reports from black men who say they were racially profiled for wearing protective face masks, a measure the CDC recommends to prevent Covid-19. So far, the reports of racial profiling are anecdotal and there are just a known few. But did the incident occur if it wasn’t caught on camera? Shelter-in-place orders might be limiting the presence of public watchdogs. “One of the greatest advances in police accountability hasn’t been a police body camera or surveillance; it’s the people filming,” said Kami Chavis, director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest. “People react differently when they know they’re being watched.”
April 22, 2020
Education Dive
3 ways college career services offices can help students right now
College career services offices are hosting virtual networking events, talking students through hurdles they’re facing on the job hunt and helping them craft contingency plans in the event that their offers are rescinded due to the pandemic. “More of the counseling element comes into play,” said Cheryl Hicks, associate director for career education and coaching at Wake Forest. “It’s important for us as coaches to realize that and not only tell (students) it’s going to be all right but why it’s going to be all right.” Hicks shared tips for career service centers working to support students in a suddenly altered job market and educational landscape.
April 21, 2020
North Carolina Health News
The Wake Forest School of Law’s Criminal Justice Project was recognized as the winner of The Law Student Group Pro Bono Service Award, presented to an outstanding law student group whose pro bono project advanced access to justice in North Carolina. The Criminal Justice Project is a collaboration between the Know Your Rights Project, the Brake Light Clinic, the Prison Letters Project and the Expungement Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law. It has provided a multi-faceted approach to lessen the impact for communities of color when interfacing with the criminal justice system in North Carolina, helping hundreds of residents throughout the state.
April 21, 2020
Symmetry Magazine
Topological quantum computers may seem like an unusual interest for a poet, but Amy Catanzano, associate professor of English and poet-in-residence at Wake Forest, is an unusual poet. She has developed and practices a theory of poetry called “quantum poetics” in which she explores poetry in parallel with particle physics, astrophysics and quantum theory. Catanzano began bringing science into her poetry after exploring poetry as a “philosophical investigation,” a step that she says drew her into thinking about how poems negotiate time. “Poetry is not just an intellectual exercise,” she said. “The physical and artistic path to the poem influences the poem itself.”
April 21, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wake ‘N Shake raises $383,550 for Cancer Fund
Students have had to move most of their campus lives online this semester. Canceled in-person classes also mean no campus events, performances, or outings. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. For the past 14 years, Wake Forest University has held a 12-hour dance marathon for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. This year the event, “Wake ’N Shake,” was rescheduled, and students had just one week to move the marathon online, the News & Record reports. And they pulled it off. The students danced like no one was watching (social distancing gives that saying a new meaning). They danced for 12 hours and posted videos on Instagram. Most important, the event raised $383,550 for the cause.
April 21, 2020
The New York Times
The census needs to count women. The pandemic makes that harder
Catherine Harnois, Wake Forest sociology professor, said that women’s intent to fill out the census could be affected by their lack of discretionary hours in the day. Outside of their careers, she said, women working a “second shift” as family caregivers for children and the elderly may simply not have time. That may be compounded today by the pandemic — with children home from school and family members falling ill, many women feel as if they’re working multiple jobs. “Even women interested in the census and knowledgeable about it might find the task getting pushed to the back burner,” Dr. Harnois said. “Especially in the current environment, with the complete reorganization of work and home life, and additional emotional stressors.”
April 21, 2020
National Academic Of Public Administration
Roundtable: Steward natural resources and address climate change
As the nation’s industry and population grows, it is critical that the public, nonprofit, and private sectors effectively steward natural resources and protect the environment for ourselves and future generations. “We need to improve our regulatory frameworks, policies, and implementation to protect the environment,” said Stan Meiburg, director of graduate studies in sustainability at Wake Forest and former Acting Deputy Administrator for the EPA. “We inherited from the 1969-90 era a set of environmental statutes that have by and large served us well. But it is asking too much of these statutes, designed for the challenges of their day, to meet challenges we have greater understanding of now than decades ago.”
April 20, 2020
Scienmag
$3 million NSF grant supports search for heat-tolerant tomatoes
Wake Forest researchers led by biology professor Gloria Muday were awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help determine why most tomato plants fail to pollinate at high temperatures and to develop more heat-tolerant tomatoes. “Looking at the data over the last few hundred years, the average temperature is going up, there are higher nighttime temperatures, and short bursts of elevated temperature that are sufficient to prevent plant reproduction,” said Muday. The grant supports a coalition of scientists including Muday, Wake Forest biologist James Pease and researchers from Brown University, UNC Charlotte and the University of Arizona.
April 20, 2020
Massive Science
How to stay calm during a pandemic
“We are currently living in a situation of extreme uncertainty, and if you are like me, you may have noticed yourself feeling extra anxious lately,” said Cassie Freund, tropical forest ecologist and Wake Forest Ph.D. student. Freund shared tips and strategies for managing pandemic-related anxieties. “We’re all in this together,” she said. “While you may have to stay physically distant from people right now, don’t forget to connect socially in any way you can.”
April 19, 2020
New Kerala (New Delhi)
IntelligentEducation.com offers free online course builder to educators
Intelligent Education, founded in 2018, began creating professional-grade online courses and educational materials for college professors, K-12 teachers, and homeschool audiences. Now to meet the present need, it is making those tools available free of charge to educators. “The goal of Intelligent Education was to provide free, easily accessible educational material to eager learners worldwide,” said Jed Macosko, academic director of Intelligent Education and assistant professor of physics at Wake Forest. “That’s still our aim. But with 30 courses available to date by professors at top universities, we are opening our platform to assist educators who would otherwise be stymied by the pressing task of creating online courses.”
April 18, 2020