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Nature
The scientists restoring a gold-mining disaster zone in the Peruvian Amazon
When Miles Silman, a conservation biologist at Wake Forest and his colleagues surveyed La Pampa, Peru, for the first time in late June, they found a barren, eerily quiet landscape polluted with mercury, a toxic by-product of mining. After decades of illegal mining that devastated large parts of La Pampa in the Amazon, the government outlawed mining and expelled an estimated 5,000 miners. The data that the researchers collect on this inadvertent experiment could help to determine the extent to which restoration is possible — or document the evolution of an entirely new, and human-made, ecosystem.
February 4, 2020
Triad Business Journal
WFU virologist warns against panicking over coronavirus
Wake Forest virologist Pat Lord offered a word of caution, not regarding the virus itself but regarding the increasing fear spurred by the outbreak. “We don’t need to be fearful,” Lord said. “We need to be aware,” Lord said citizens should practice good hygiene – washing hands, coughing into an elbow, staying home when sick – as a means of preventing any illness, whether the flu or coronavirus.
February 4, 2020
WXII
John Dinan, Wake Forest political science professor, spoke with WXII about the Iowa Caucus results. “Iowas is giving us more numbers than they have ever given us in the past. That’s perhaps why it took them so long to give them to us,” said Dinan. “The numbers that we’re seeing is that final set of numbers where Pete Buttigieg is in the lead. It turns out if you look at some of the other numbers, Bernie Sanders could be said to be in the lead. We’re in a situation where we have multiple candidates at this point who are both claiming, ‘I can be seen as victorious.’ That’s an interesting situation to be in.”
February 4, 2020
Grazia Middle East
We often find lists comforting in an otherwise chaotic world – and bullet journals and other types of super-planning take this to the extreme. The Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik coined the term ‘the Zeigarnik effect’ – the theory that the brain remembers things we need to do better than things we’ve done, which can leave us feeling weighed down with tasks. More recently, a study by Wake Forest professors Roy Baumeister and E.J. Masicampo showed that, while tasks we haven’t done distract us, just making a plan to get them done can free us from this anxiety.
February 3, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
They integrated the women’s dorms at Wake Forest. The four returned to the university Sunday
Trailblazers. Leaders. Fighters. These are some of the words used Saturday morning to describe the women who integrated the female dorms at Wake Forest in the 1969-70 school year. Speaking at a panel in the school’s Brendle Recital Hall to commemorate the occasion, Deborah Graves McFarlane and Beth Norbrey Hopkins described what it was like being the first two black women to live on Wake’s campus after enrolling in the fall of 1969. More than anything, the women preached a message of perseverance. “If something doesn’t go your way, look for another way to go,” Hopkins said.
February 2, 2020
La Recherche
“Since 1985, the illegal exploitation of gold has destroyed nearly 960 square kilometers of forest in the Madre de Dios region, more than two thirds of which in eight years, from 2009 to 2017,” said Luis Fernandez, executive director of the Center for Scientific Innovation in the Amazon (CINCIA). CINCIA was created in 2016 in Puerto Maldonado by the American university, Wake Forest, to assess and mitigate threats to health and biodiversity due to mining, and raise awareness. “Some 185 tonnes of mercury used to extract gold are released into the wild every year in Madre de Dios, or 60% of the mercury emitted in Peru.”
February 1, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Medicaid block grant proposal likely to draw advocates, legal opposition in North Carolina
“Agreeing to Medicaid expansion and doing so as part of an arrangement where federal Medicaid funds are sent to the state as a block grant would be of potential interest to Republican legislators in states that have so far opted against Medicaid expansion,” said politics professor John Dinant. “The challenge is that any Medicaid block-grant arrangement would certainly be tied up in lengthy legal challenges and may well not pass muster with federal courts.”
February 1, 2020
13News Now
Virginia’s legislator immunity clause: Traffic stop prompts questions about arrest immunity
Wake Forest state constitution expert John Dinan and University of Virginia expert A.E. Dick Howard said the origins of the immunity clause date back to English law. It was designed to protect lawmakers from interference or manipulation, preventing someone – or the executive branch – from gaming the system. For example, Dinan said, a delegate could be arrested on a minor charge and prevented from voting on a key issue.
January 31, 2020
The Conversation
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
“In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present evidence of a strong expert consensus,” said Wake Forest philosophy professor Adrian Bardon in an article written for The Conversation. “But things don’t work that way when the scientific consensus presents a picture that threatens someone’s ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue.”
January 31, 2020
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Wake Forest commemorates 50th anniversary of integrating residence halls
Wake Forest will commemorate the 50th anniversary of integrating its women’s residence halls this weekend. To memorialize the anniversary, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and Deborah Graves McFarlane, the first two African-American women to live on campus, will speak openly about their experiences of living in the residence halls. Alongside them, Awilda Neal, Linda Holiday and Camille Russell Love will share their stories as Black women at Wake Forest in the early 1970s as well.
January 30, 2020
Mcknight's Long-Term Care News
Can weighted vests replace strength training for bariatric residents
Using a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, investigators from Wake Forest will compare bone health outcomes in participants who wear weighted vests to outcomes in adults who participate in strength training. Bones respond to extra load and will grow when people put on pounds. Unfortunately, they can also lose density when weight is lost, and do not necessarily regrow – even if the weight is regained, putting older adults who lose large amounts of weight at risk of osteoporosis or osteopenia.
January 29, 2020
NPR
A $41,212 surgery bill compounded a patient’s appendicitis pain
A balance bill is the difference between what insurers pay toward a bill and a provider’s “list charges,” which facilities set themselves and which often bear little or no relationship to actual costs. If you get a balance bill after your insurer has paid the provider, experts advise check state laws and check with your state’s insurance regulators to see what protections you may have. Ask your insurer or employer to pay the bill or to negotiate a discount with the provider, said Mark Hall, a law professor at Wake Forest who studies contract law and medical billing issues.
January 29, 2020