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RotoWire
New study finds traders more accurate than pollsters
A study by Koleman Strumpf, Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy at Wake Forest, and Harry Crane, Professor of Statistics at Rutgers, found that Kalshi's 2024 election traders were 86% male and half were under 30. Their home zip codes voted 28% for President Trump. A market that priced its traders' politics would have leaned toward Kamala Harris, not Trump. Instead, 60% of the money went to Republican positions, and Kalshi priced Trump as the favorite through the final month.
October 21, 2026
Harper's Magazine
Letters, by Koleman Strumpf and Paul Rhode
"Public prediction markets have existed for centuries in the United States and elsewhere. During the heyday of New York City election markets, from around 1880 to 1940, leading newspapers reported odds on the front page in the weeks before Election Day. These markets forecast winners with remarkable accuracy," write economists Paul Rhode and Koleman Strumpf.
Strumpf and Rhodes research was also referenced in the Financial Times article, "The wisdom of prediction markets."
October 21, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Power Players 2026 Leaders to Watch: Peter Rodriguez of Wake Forest University
The 15th president of Wake Forest University, Peter Rodriguez, takes the reins of the Triad university with the largest national profile. WFU ranked as the 34th-best national university in this year's U.S. News rankings and has an endowment of $2.1 billion. Rodriguez has said that innovation campuses are a crucial part of bringing economic vitality to a region and that the iQ is something at the school that he wants to leave his mark on.
October 21, 2026
AARP
Should you leave your house to your kids?
Parents can leave a home to their children when they die or transfer an ownership interest while they’re alive by adding a child to the deed, the legal document that establishes who owns the property. These options have different tax consequences. One tax advantage for children who inherit a home upon a parent’s death is something called a step-up in basis. “The step-up in basis is something a lot of families don’t fully understand,” said Deon Strickland, a professor of finance at Wake Forest.
October 20, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Power Players revealed: Meet the first 10 members of TBJ’s Power 50 2026
Anthony Atala, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and Dr. Ebony Boulware, Wake Forest School of Medicine, are both named in this list of the Triad Business Journal "2026 Power Players."
October 19, 2026
The Columbus Dispatch
People are betting on Ohio elections. Do the odds mean anything?
The money flowing into Ohio elections isn't just for campaign ads. People are betting millions of dollars on the Nov. 3 election through prediction markets. "Elections are something that are very salient," said economist Koleman Strumpf. "We see a lot about them. People who trade in them can vote on them and see what's going on in the election. There's a lot of diversity in opinion on who people think is going to win. I view it as the perfect storm."
October 19, 2026
The Charlotte Observer
Best colleges? 4 NC schools land on LinkedIn’s Top 50 list for career success
Wake Forest University landed at No. 17 overall in LinkedIn's Top Colleges 2026 list, climbing eight spots from its No. 25 debut in the inaugural ranking.
October 19, 2026
Southern Living
How Wake Forest’s Demon Deacon became college football’s most unusual mascot
When it comes to college football, no one shares a love of the game more than a team mascot. Whether it’s a bulldog, gamecock, or gator, college football wouldn’t be the same without a costumed character pumping up the crowd. And then there’s the South’s most unusual college mascot—the Demon Deacon. With his top hat, black tails, and giant oversized head, Wake Forest University’s Demon Deacon has been called everything from hilarious to terrifying.
October 17, 2026
Scienmag
New frontiers in bee science reveal how bees battle heat, mites and viruses
Bees are under unprecedented pressure from human intervention, and a new editorial in the journal Frontiers in Bee Science argues that the science needed to save them is advancing on multiple fronts at once. The editorial, written by top bee researchers, including biologist Susan E. Fahrbach, looks at climate-induced heat stress and its growing threat to bee diversity. Solitary bees appear especially vulnerable because they cannot thermoregulate their nests.
October 16, 2026
Inside Higher Ed
Career readiness needs an architecture, not an add-on
Wake Forest University’s Andy Chan said: Rather than assuming every authentic experience requires elaborate new infrastructure, institutions can begin by identifying what students already do that is close to experiential learning and make it more consequential through greater structure and reflection... Career services have an essential role to play in this model—not only as providers of services near graduation, but as institutional architects and connectors.
October 15, 2026
aerohaber.com
NASA has awarded Wake Forest University Assistant Professor of Physics Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño a two-year, $374,000 grant to advance data analysis capabilities for the anticipated launch of NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in 2035—the world’s first space-based gravitational wave observatory. Detecting and analyzing gravitational waves offers a new window into observing and understanding our universe.
October 15, 2026
Inter-American Dialogue
“José Antonio Kast swept to Chile’s presidency on promises to stem immigration and fight organized crime. In this sense, the stated reason for joining the Shield of the Americas initiative is to demonstrate a commitment to showing progress on these issues. The government also acknowledged that cooperation with the United States could extend into other strategic and economic areas, and Kast and governing parties insist that joining the initiative involves no surrender of Chile’s sovereignty," shared politics and international affairs professor Peter M. Siavelis.
October 15, 2026