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Benzinga
Wake Forest made Benzinga's list of top U.S. undergraduate marketing schools for 2019. Benzigna writes, "Wake Forest University is a highly-selective school with an equally regarded marketing and communications program. Wake Forest places a strong emphasis on digital media – including social platforms, video, and more – which familiarizes students with the ever-changing marketing landscape."
April 25, 2019
Associated Press
Radicalization among Sri Lanka’s Muslims was slow and steady
If the attacks on Christian churches on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka were carried out by a purely Local Sri Lankan group, the attackers would have sought revenge against the Buddhist community for ultranationalist mob attacks on Muslims over the years and not churches or hotels, said Neil Devotta, a professor at Wake Forest who has written extensively about Muslims in Sri Lanka. Radical groups like National Towheed Jamaat do not represent even 1% of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka, he said.
April 24, 2019
Foreign Affairs
The religious tensions behind the attacks in Sri Lanka: How sectarianism could spin out of control
Wake Forest Professor of Politics and International Affairs Neil DeVotta and co-author Sumit Sanguly of Indiana University published an article in Foreign Affairs on the history of violence and the religious tensions in Sri Lanka, providing background to the series of suicide bombings at Christian churches and hotels in the capital city of Colombo on Easter Sunday.
April 24, 2019
Hgtv
Creative Genius: Susan Harlan, author of Decorating a Room of One’s Own
HGTV talked with Wake Forest English professor Susan Harlan about her book, Decorating a Room of One’s Own. In the book, she "interviews" literary characters about their decorating choices. From their proudest DIYs to their important influences and plans for the future, Harlan gives us a peek into the house secrets of literature’s rich and famous—and infamous.
April 24, 2019
The News & Observer
Newport Art Museum to welcome Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture
David Lubin, professor of art at Wake Forest, will present the lecture, “Whitney at War: Healing, Death, and Memory in the WWI Sculptures” on July 11 at the Newport Art Museum, which is welcoming Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture, a traveling exhibition organized by the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
April 24, 2019
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest law school names new dean
Jane Aiken, a professor and an administrator at Georgetown University's law school since 2007, will succeed Suzanne Reynolds as dean July 1. Reynolds, who has served as dean since 2014, will return to the faculty. “Jane Aiken’s distinguished career as an attorney, an advocate and a teacher-scholar – particularly in the areas of legal education, women’s rights and evidence – makes her exceptionally well qualified to lead the Wake Forest University School of Law,” said Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch. “Her leadership, vision and energy are exactly what we need to develop the brightest legal minds in the tireless pursuit of justice.”
April 24, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
The Syllabus: The ultimate bar passage rates for N.C. law schools
The American Bar Association published ultimate pass rates for U.S. law students from the class of 2016 - the percentage of law school graduates who passed a bar exam within two years of leaving school. The national ultimate pass rate for all graduates was 88.57 percent for the class of 2016. The Wake Forest School of Law's 2016 class' ultimate passage rate was several points higher than the national average and the highest of the six North Carolina law schools - with 94.7 percent of its 171 test-takers passing the bar.
April 24, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Gloria Stickney combines her love of quilting, Wake Forest and community-building in her business, Sew Fabulous. Stickney works as the Grants and Contracts Manager at the physics department of Wake Forest, where she is known as “The Quilt Lady.” One of Stickney's quilts will be featured in the “America From The Heart Quilt Show 2019," held at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds May 3 and 4.
April 24, 2019
88.5 WFDD
Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards: 88.5 WFDD recognized for ‘overall excellence’
88.5 WFDD has been honored with two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including "Overall Excellence" and "Newscast" categories. The Radio Television Digital News Association awards are among the most prestigious in broadcast and digital news. This is the second consecutive year that WFDD has been recognized in the "Overall Excellence" category.
April 23, 2019
Campus Rec
Wake Forest’s Wellbeing Center celebrates first anniversary
The grand opening of the renovated Wake Forest Wellbeing Center was held in 2018. Now, a year later, the building is thriving and so is campus rec. During its first year, the Wellness Center logged 354,445 entries into the facility by students, faculty, staff and retirees – enrollment at WFU is 8,100 students. "We wanted to focus on not only being fitness and recreation, but rather focus on the holistic well-being of all individuals and thought there was a need,” said Joe Cassidy, the executive director of campus fitness and recreation.
April 23, 2019
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Insights from James Otteson’s ‘Honorable Business’
A new book, Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society, on business ethics by James Otteson of Wake Forest and WFU’s BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism was featured in a blog on the Competitive Enterprise Institute website.
April 22, 2019
WalletHub
2019 Small Business Owner Survey
To celebrate national Small Business Week, WalletHub polled small business owners across the country on the state of their finances and gathered insight from a panel of experts on small business success. Dan Cohen, Executive Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of Practice for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest, served on the expert panel which was asked what advice they would give to 65% of business owners who say they're paying too much in credit card processing fees. "Shop around and use your leverage. You have nothing to lose. Also, experiment with accepting other forms of payment such as Venmo, Pay Pal, etc.
April 22, 2019