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Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest’s new agreement with Pepsi sets stage for future university-wide partnerships
WFU has entered a 10-year pouring rights agreement with Pepsi Bottling Ventures, creating immediate benefits for the school and laying the groundwork for future university-wide deals with other corporate partners. Barry Faircloth, Wake's executive associate athletic director for development and sales, said Pepsi partnered with the university’s athletic department for more than 40 years. The new agreement goes beyond that previous partnership.
July 29, 2026
Bradenton Herald
GLP-1 meds now covered by Medicare – with some restrictions
Medicare launched a new program that reverses a decades-long policy of not covering weight-loss treatments and now gives some people over age 65 access to some of these medications. Kristen Beavers, an expert on aging, obesity and bone health, urges prescribing physicians to screen their senior patients for bone strength and bone density before putting them on a GLP-1 drug for weight loss. "In a population that is already losing bone due to age, I think there is a clinical risk here that needs to be managed."
July 28, 2026
All Politics Now
Fan of early voting? You may have fewer days to cast ballot thanks to state lawmakers
The N.C. Senate has chosen to split its response to the N.C. House's controversial elections law legislation into two bills. However, it's unclear whether the Senate's splitting of the language into two bills might gain enough House Democrat or unaffiliated support. "There would be the question of whether the General Assembly would try to override that veto at a later point in time and whether they would succeed in a situation where no Democrats have expressed support for the bill," said politics professor John Dinan.
July 28, 2026
Complete AI Training
Wake Forest appoints William Fleeson to lead university-wide AI initiative
Psychology professor William Fleeson has been selected to lead a new university-wide artificial intelligence initiative, signaling that higher education leaders are moving beyond ad hoc AI experiments toward coordinated strategies that touch teaching, research and administration. "Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping higher education, and Wake Forest has both an opportunity and a responsibility to approach it thoughtfully," said Interim Provost Nell Jessup Newton.
This announcement also appeared in the Ed Tech Innovation Hub newsletter.
July 28, 2026
Winston-Salem Journal
Pepsi Bottling Ventures deepens ties to Wake Forest with new 10-year contract
Wake Forest University announced Tuesday it has signed a 10-year contract with Pepsi Bottling Ventures to be its exclusive beverage supplier. “This relationship represents far more than a beverage agreement," Wake Forest president Peter Rodriguez said in a news release. "It is an investment in the people, values and future of Wake Forest. It reflects a shared commitment to supporting what makes Wake Forest exceptional."
July 28, 2026
WalletHub
Loud budgeting: Is it an effective strategy?
"The effectiveness part of loud budgeting is that it forces one to opt in to spending, as opposed to opting out of spending," said economics professor Todd McFall. "Behavioral economists think the distinction between these frames is important because one has to voluntarily move from one reality (spend/don’t spend) to another (don’t spend/spend), and this act of changing reality takes effort. If done correctly, loud budgeting changes a person’s view about spending from “I’m going to unless I figure out a reason not to” to “I’m not unless I figure out why I should”. Those are two very different frames of reality!
July 27, 2026
Inter-American Dialogue
Featured Q&A: What will Kast’s tax overhaul mean for Chile?
“Tax reform has remained high on Chile’s political agenda since the collapse of former President Gabriel Boric’s reform effort, leaving unresolved questions about how to finance public spending while restoring the country’s sagging economic growth," said politics professor Peter Siavelis. "Kast’s bold ‘mega-reform’ proposal is a forceful effort to counter his bruising poll numbers and reverse the negative public narrative surrounding his presidency."
July 26, 2026
Vox
Could you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?
Could you accidentally gamble away your right to vote? In a 2012 paper, economic historian Paul Rhode and economist Koleman Strumpf wrote that betting on elections was “commonplace” since the US’s earliest years as a nation, but that it became “especially intense during the partisan conflicts of the Jacksonian era.” Newspapers, which in those days were mainly partisan, championed the practice.
July 25, 2026
The JO Ai
Wake Forest launches AI initiative
Wake Forest University is launching an AI for Human Flourishing initiative. The initiative aims to guide the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence across teaching, learning, research, and administrative work. The university appointed William Fleeson as Associate Provost for AI Initiatives to lead the initiative.
July 25, 2026
Forbes
New research: Why fools are more influential than liars
Psychologists John Petrocelli, Elijah Rice and Joseph Curran ran three experiments on roughly 800 undergraduates total, testing what happens when people are repeatedly exposed to false claims from sources described as either liars or as people with no regard for whether what they’re saying is true, sometimes called “BS-ers” in the academic literature. The research confirms that we let people off the hook if they don't care about the truth, but we don’t do the same for liars. What the new study adds to the conversation is an account of how much this costs us.
July 24, 2026
Forbes
What is a K-shaped economy and how it can affect your financial future
In a K-shaped economy, people in the lower economic portion who depend on wages, not on investments, are more vulnerable to conditions. Finance professor Deon Strickland said the 1950s and 1960s were the “heyday of the American experience in terms of labor,” meaning wages. Since then, “capital has been good, but labor, not so good."
July 24, 2026
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Winston-Salem arts icons honored at Memorial Walk of Fame
The 2025 inductees include pioneering public radio figure and former Wake Forest University communication professor Julian Burroughs. Burroughs spearheaded the effort to secure WFDD’s broadcast license and North Carolina’s first NPR charter membership. His daughter, Rosalind Tedford, is director of research, instruction, and outreach at ZSR Library on the Wake Forest campus. "He loved this city, he loved Wake Forest, he loved the arts, and to have his work recognized in this way, I think he’d be, as he used to say, tickled pink," she said.
July 24, 2026