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Southern Living
Add this castle-like estate In North Carolina to your vacation bucket list
A few minutes outside of downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sits the enchanting and historic Graylyn Estate. Built with 85 rooms to accommodate overnight guests in several lodging facilities, the estate-turned-hotel and conference center combines plenty of charm with a splendid hospitable staff while preserving rich, local history. In a way, it resembles a more intimate version of the Biltmore.
April 26, 2024
The American Scholar
“Teaching theoretical lenses, approaches, ways of understanding history, ways of understanding a text, is really vital. And I think that that necessarily points to discussions about what has been used historically to understand these cultures, these periods, these texts, and what are the shortfalls, what are the gaps,” said classics professor T.H.M. Gellar-Goad.
April 26, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Parkland students looking forward to attending Trevor Noah event after studying his memoir
Some Parkland High School students have a lot to look forward to next week after studying Trevor Noah’s memoir “Born A Crime.” The students wrote to Wake Forest in hopes of attending the Face-to-Face speaker event at the LJVM Coliseum, featuring Noah. The students received complimentary tickets in response.
April 26, 2024
Atlas Obscura
Japanese green tea once fueled the midwest
“It’s just so amazing how something like this can be so quickly forgotten. And this is the challenge of a historian: trying to figure out why. There’s no documents that tell us ‘This is why we really [liked] green tea,” said history professor Robert Hellyer, author of ”Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Teacups.”
April 25, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University partners with Speas Elementary to make learning creative and engaging
Learning got creative at Speas Elementary School in Winston-Salem thanks to some Wake Forest students. The elementary students were able to experience hands-on learning as part of an innovative program called, “Theater in Education.” Education and theater students have been working with second graders using the performing arts to teach lessons on science.
April 24, 2024
Global News
Peel police chief met Sri Lankan officer a court says ‘participated’ in torture
The head of one of Canada’s largest police forces met with a Sri Lankan inspector general of police who two weeks earlier had been found by the South Asian country’s highest court to have “participated in the torture” of an arrested man. Tennakoon’s recent appointment as police chief shows “much about how law enforcement authorities in the island operate with impunity,” said politics professor Neil DeVotta.
April 23, 2024
Spectrum News Charlotte
North Carolina campuses team up for unique renewable energy partnership
Davidson College, Wake Forest University and Elon University have teamed up with several higher education institutions in Pennsylvania for the Sebree Solar II Project, which will bring a large-scale solar facility online in western Kentucky.
April 23, 2024
WSJS-AM (Winston-Salem, NC)
WFU commits to 100% renewable energy
“Sustainability is a big commitment here,” said Vice President for Institutional Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, in an interview with Jeffrey Griffin about the University’s collaborative solar energy project. “This is an exciting partnership with eight other institutions for us to take part in activating a big solar installation in Kentucky,” DeLongre Johnson said. “It is a great spot for us to invest in renewable energy….that community benefits and we benefit through renewable energy credits that will become part of our overall greenhouse gas accounting equation.”
April 23, 2024
WXLV-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Winston-Salem and Wake Forest partner to make improvements to Polo Road
“As a player in the community, we have a role as stewards in the community. Making sure we’re not needlessly adding single-occupancy vehicle commuters to the road,” said DeDee DeLongpre Johnston, vice president for sustainability and chief sustainability officer. “We have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian corridors leading to and from campus already, so we want to make sure that the folks who are opting for active transportation are doing so as safely as possible.”
April 23, 2024
Moneygeek
Best Business Credit Cards in 2024
Business professor Ajay Patel answers questions on which small businesses most benefit from using a credit card and how business owners can appropriately use their credit cards to build credit and stay out of debt.
April 22, 2024
CBS News
Supreme Court to consider clash of Idaho abortion ban with federal law for emergency care
But states can still enforce their abortion restrictions, said law professor Meghan Boone, who is an expert on reproductive rights. “The overlap here where there could be a potential conflict between what EMTALA requires and what Idaho says is criminal is a fairly narrow range of cases. It’s not going to cover all abortions.”
April 22, 2024
North Carolina Health News
The larger a hospital’s footprint, the more bargaining power it has when it negotiates prices with health insurance companies, said law professor Mark Hall. Hospitals also cite economies of scale and operational efficiencies they say will enhance patient care, he said.
April 22, 2024