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CBS News
Biden leans on young voters to flip North Carolina
Tarak Duggal, a senior at Wake Forest University, was one of the event’s participants.”It is inspiring and helpful to see that the campaign is taking us seriously and is listening to us and understands how important of a voting bloc that young people are,” she said.
April 20, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
NC Court of Appeals rules some COVID-19 restrictions harmed bars
Law professor Mark Hall said the panel’s opinion “shows a surprising reluctance to defer to public health officials in the midst of a national emergency.” He added: “It appears to require public health officials to back up their expert professional judgments in those circumstances with scientific studies that have been published in peer-reviewed journals – something that simply is not possible in a realistic time frame during an unexpected emergency.”
April 18, 2024
The Wall Street Journal
Americans throw away up to $68M in coins a year. Here is where it all ends up.
Coins are as good as junk for many Americans. “If you lost a $100 bill you’d look for it. If you lost a $20 bill you’d look for it. If you lost a book you’d look for it,” said economics professor Robert Whaples. “But a penny, you’re just not going to look for it.” Whaples has encouraged the government to kill the penny, which costs about three times its value to make.
April 17, 2024
Associated Press
Weedkiller manufacturer seeks lawmakers’ help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer
Law professor Jonathan Cardi, a product liability and torts expert, said a strict reading of the Iowa legislation extends beyond liability claims, and “the way it’s drafted makes it interpretable to mean nobody could bring any suit.”
April 16, 2024
Forbes
One of world’s leading honesty researchers accused of plagiarism
“Another day, another academic researcher is being accused of dishonesty. In this case, it is Francesca Gino, recently the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The particular kind of dishonesty in question is plagiarism,” writes philosophy professor and character scholar Christian Miller.
April 15, 2024
Yahoo
The coming Pearl District already has a tenant – Charlotte’s first medical school
With the final beams in place on an academic building, construction on Charlotte’s first medical school is nearly completed — along with the first phase of The Pearl district project. While a ceremony took place in December to celebrate “topping off” the construction of two buildings, more work is expected for the $1.5 billion innovative district and the new Wake Forest University School of Medicine-Charlotte.
April 15, 2024
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
New improvements to be made to Polo Road in Winston-Salem for pedestrian safety
The university partnered with the city during the planning phase in 2014 to identify transportation needs. “Our objectives are twofold really to enhance safety for active modes of transportation: walking, bicycling, skateboarding, etc. and also to decrease the number of single occupancy vehicles that are on the road as an institution where students that are commuting and faculty and staff that are commuting,” said VP for Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee DeLongpre Johnston.
April 15, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Trevor Noah in conversation with Sam Sanders April 30
The upcoming Face to Face conversation will feature popular comedian and political commentator, Trevor Noah. The moderator and Journalist, Sam Sanders joined the Local Vibe ahead of their conversation to give a preview of what guests can expect to hear. Sanders also shared how he plans to approach his conversation with Noah and why it will be so popular.
WFMY also previewed the upcoming Face to Face event.
April 15, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Global institute touts Innovation Quarter as land role model
“Wake Forest’s leadership, coupled with city and county support using tax credits and infrastructure improvements, drove the development and seems to model the author’s conclusions about the importance of leadership, government creativity and land use,” said Don Martin, chairman of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
April 14, 2024
The Washington Post
What O.J. Simpson and his murder trial told us about race in America
Assistant professor of media studies Phillip Lamarr Cunningham said many of his students view Simpson as a true-crime figure rather than the athlete he remembers. Cunningham, who was a young man during the trial, said that he still struggles with the not guilty verdict. “Just like everybody else, I had to wrestle with the reality that he very well may have done it, alongside the fact that he is this Black man who had for all intents and purposes, made it,” Cunningham said.
April 11, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Generative AI poses new possibilities, challenges for legal industry
“Law as a profession, on the whole, has been traditionally very slow to adopt technology,” said law professor Keith Robinson. “They want to be the first follower, but they don’t want to be the first adopter. Because the riskiest thing to do is to be the first adopter. Lawyers are traditionally risk averse.”
April 11, 2024
Spectrum News Charlotte
Advocacy program is a voice for children in court in central North Carolina
A study by the Wake Forest University of Law shows when Children’s Law Center of North Carolina was appointed, better outcomes resulted for the child along with a reduction in violence.
April 11, 2024