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CNN
Do weighted vests work? We talked to the experts
CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell meets up with Peloton instructor Rebecca Kennedy and Wake Forest University health and exercise scientist Kristen Beavers to talk about the proper ways to use a weighted vest. "For your bones, a weighted vest takes advantage of gravity. Research suggests that weighted vests can maintain, and even improve, several parameters of musculoskeletal health," said Beavers.
August 27, 2025
All Sides with Amy Juravich , WOSU Public Media
The current trends in end-of-life planning
A final farewell to a loved one looks much different today that it used to. More people are planning ahead and opting for cremation over burial, choosing green or eco-friendly funerals and finding novel ways to remember those who are gone. What are your plans for final arrangements at the end of your life? Tanya Marsh, senior associate dean and law professor at Wake Forest University, shares her expertise on this topic.
August 27, 2025
Columbia University
2025 Horwitz Prize Awarded for Muscular Dystrophy Research
Wake Forest University's 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner Eric Olson was recently honored with a 2025 Horwitz Prize Awarded for Muscular Dystrophy Research, “for discoveries that revealed the causes of muscular dystrophies.” Olson, who is with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, identified key molecules that control muscle cell development, growth, and function. Of the 118 Horwitz Prize winners to date, 55 have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
August 27, 2025
Detroit News
Gerald Ford’s admirers laying groundwork for national healing amid divisive presidency
The country needs "national healing and restoration of our pride in being Americans and our government and being able to work together like a representative democratic government calls to do," said Mike Ford, 75, a retired Wake Forest University administrator.
August 25, 2025
The News & Observer
What are the best companies to work for in NC? Here’s the Forbes 2025 list
Wake Forest University made Forbes' updated list of the best employers in North Carolina.
August 25, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Baptist freestanding emergency department proposal may lead to shorter wait
A freestanding emergency department within walking distance of Wake Forest University's The Grounds mixed-use development is the latest major off-campus medical facility being sought by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. If approved, the goal is opening the 24/7 facility in January 2028.
August 22, 2025
The Conversation
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research
Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. "They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity and open-mindedness," writes Michael Prinzing, a research and assessment scholar for Wake Forest's Educating Character Initiative. "What sets philosophy apart from other fields is that it is not so much a body of knowledge as an activity – a form of inquiry."
This story ran in news outlets nationwide, including MSN, Yahoo News, The Houston Chronicle and SFGate.
August 21, 2025
The Conversation
Why America still needs public schools
"Education is what economists call a public good, which means it not only benefits students but the country as well," writes law professor Sidney Shapiro in this co-authored article for The Conversation.
This story ran in news outlets nationwide, including UPI, The Sacramento Bee, The Miami Herald and The Charlotte Observer.
August 21, 2025
Phys.org
Heat waves are here. Can tomatoes keep up?
While nothing says "summer" quite like the taste of a perfectly ripe tomato, excessive heat during the growing season can prevent tomato plants from bearing fruit. Gloria Muday, the Charles M. Allen Professor of Biology at Wake Forest University, studies tomatoes and how to make them more heat-resistant.
August 20, 2025
Earth.com
World’s most diverse forests are failing to adapt to climate change
Forests from the Amazon lowlands to the high Andes are failing to adjust quickly enough to rising temperatures.“These forests are simply not keeping up with climate change,” said lead author William Farfan-Rios, a biodiversity fellow in forest ecosystems in the Andes-Amazon with Wake Forest University's Andrew Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability. “The result is a growing climatic debt that threatens the integrity and functioning of the most diverse forests on Earth.”
August 20, 2025
NewsBreak
Amazon and Andean trees cannot migrate fast enough to escape rising temperatures
A new study published today by Wake Forest University and an international team of scientists reveals that tree communities across the Amazon and Andes are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, with major implications for the future of tropical biodiversity and ecosystem services like climate regulation and pollination.
August 20, 2025
Bloomberg Opinion
Whatever the Alaska game was, the odds didn’t move
Partisan flames are understandable in the population. What’s perhaps more surprising is that there is also Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts, to borrow the title of a study by Benjamin Kay of the Fed, Aeimit Lakdawala of Wake Forest University, and Jane Ryngaert of the University of Notre Dame. Their key finding: When Republicans control the White House, Republican-affiliated forecasters predict significantly higher GDP growth than their Democratic colleagues, roughly 10% to 15% of average GDP growth. But when Democrats are in power, both groups make similar predictions.
August 18, 2025