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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
Winston-Salem Journal
Time-management tips: Experts advise daily routines and goals to help artists amid COVID-19
Wake Forest professor of psychology E.J. Masicampo said that with people at home or quarantined because of the coronavirus pandemic, this is a good time to create new habits. “This is a critical moment, really these first few weeks where people are isolating or quarantining because they don’t have a routine yet,” Masicampo said. “What is really dangerous, if you don’t approach this thoughtfully and with a plan, you could very easily fall into a very unproductive routine.”
April 18, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Krawiec challenges governor on socioeconomic impact of stay-at-home order
The politicizing of when to reopen state and the national economies will continue to increase, said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “In a number of states, including Michigan and Minnesota … and to some degree in North Carolina, we are starting to see Republican officials encouraging a faster re-opening timeline than Democratic governors are embracing, especially in states where governors are talking about extending current shutdown orders,” Dinan said. “I expect that the divisions between Republicans and Democrats on a reopening timeline will widen.”
April 18, 2020
Mongabay
As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy
Justin Catanoso, Wake Forest professor of journalism, published an article on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, and its continued investment in wood-burning power plants, despite recent moves toward more sustainable investments. “Biomass energy is commonly produced by burning wood pellets. Critics of the wood pellet industry say it produces tons of carbon emissions while leveling old-growth and managed forests,” said Catanoso.
April 17, 2020
Yes! Weekly
In need of educational entertainment? Wake Forest providing virtual storytime for children
The Wake Forest Office of Civic and Community Engagement (OCCE) launched Wake Reads, designed to provide “storytime” for children while giving parents a break as they juggle working from home and caring for their children who are out of school because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marianne Magjuka, executive director of the OCCE, said Wake Reads is just another way the University is demonstrating its motto, “Pro Humanitate.”
April 17, 2020
The Atlantic
After social distancing, a strange purgatory awaits
Adaptive recovery is like living through evolution in real time. We will swerve and pivot, become acclimated to random closures and sudden changes in testing regimens, and hope that we can box the virus in long enough to buy time for a more permanent solution. Jonathan Walton, the dean of Wake Forest’s School of Divinity, has described our time hiding from, mobilizing against, and then living with the virus as the “now normal,” the simple effort to live each day as if it were typical, knowing that the next day will bring a new round of uncertainty.
April 16, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest Baptist study aims to provide real-time COVID-19 tracking
According to a brief co-authored by Mark Hall, a law and public-health professor at Wake Forest, the solution for balancing COVID-19 social distancing with social liberties could be widespread testing and surveillance. Hall said the basic point of the brief “is that, in order to sensibly lift current restrictions, we need a lot more testing. Both of who has the virus and who has had it, in order to replace blanket restrictions with more targeted protections in a way that balances civil liberties with public health.”
April 15, 2020
News & Record
In this new virtual world, area colleges move classes — and campus events — online
COVID-19 almost meant the cancellation of the university’s largest student-run philanthropic event, the 15th annual Wake ‘N Shake dance marathon to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund, but in only a few short weeks, student organizers transitioned the whole 12 hour event online. Students posted videos to Instagram of their best moves. Inspirational messages from cancer survivors and Piccolo’s three daughters were aired throughout. Wake Forest students raised $383,550.29 for the Research Fund, and about 1,500 people watched the final hour live on Facebook. “I have been overwhelmed by the amount of response we’ve received,” said Kylie Reed, a Wake Forest senior from Atlanta and one of the event’s three student directors. “Fundraising aside, it was a really important 12 hours for the Wake Forest community to be able to come together.”
April 14, 2020
Bloomberg Law
EPA to relax quality tests for air monitoring during pandemic
Companies unable to get outside contractors to verify the accuracy of air emissions monitoring data because of the pandemic would be able to delay some tests under an EPA rule now under review. Stan Meiburg, director of Wake Forest’s graduate program in sustainability and former EPA associate administrator under the Obama administration, questioned the need for the rule. “What is it about Quality Assurance requirements for power plants that is at risk because of COVID-19? I am not saying there is nothing, but why couldn’t it be handled through enforcement discretion rather than this rulemaking, which appears to be being rushed through in the hopes that no one will notice.”
April 13, 2020
CNN
Beijing faces a diplomatic crisis after reports of mistreatment of Africans in China causes outrage
Lina Benabdallah, an assistant professor of politics at Wake Forest who specializes in China-Africa relations, said that the “delicate” nature of the issue required a “coordinated response,” as Chinese diplomats would need to prevent a backlash against the more than one million Chinese currently living in Africa. “De-escalation in that sense is probably a priority. It’s a sensitive thing.”
April 13, 2020
The Investors Podcast
Improving our character with Christian Miller
Christian Miller, Wake Forest professor of philosophy, appeared as a guest on “The Good Life” podcast to discuss virtues that make up a good character, why character matters and how we can improve our character. “Character makes a big difference to our own individual lives,” Miller explained. “There’s good empirical evidence to support the idea that the better character you have, the better your life will go. There are studies that have been done that correlate measures of good character, like hope, conscientiousness, and honesty, with things that benefit us like being in a better mood, being healthier, achieving more in life, have better life satisfaction, and more purpose and value.”
April 13, 2020