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Chipotle will open locations in Mexico for the first time
“This seems like an especially good strategy for the fast-casual chain to be pursuing right now, given both the company’s current aggressive plans for international growth, as well as tariff-driven cost increases domestically,” says Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest University School of Business.
April 21, 2025
Times News Global
Chipotle to Open First Restaurant in Mexico by 2026
Roger Beahm, executive director at the Center for Retail Innovation said, “This announcement demonstrates Chipotle’s willingness to back up its words with actions,” especially as other chains may be hesitant given the current international trade climate. He noted that this strategic expansion should help alleviate pricing pressures from imported goods in the U.S.
April 21, 2025
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Easter message: ‘The empire does not have the final say’
The Easter season of 1968 was engulfed in a cloud of doubt and despair familiar to many of us today. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated on April 4, with his funeral five days later during Holy Week. Civil unrest and riots punctuated the period of mourning. A measure of hope was lost that has never been fully recaptured. Corey D. B. Walker, dean of the School of Divinity, said, “The message that needs to go out across the nation and the world in the Christian community: That Christianity does not side with the empire against the oppressed.”
April 20, 2025
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University to host ‘We Play Together’ event celebrating music and gaming
The Wake Forest Symphony Orchestra is performing video game scores Friday alongside composer Inon Zur. The concert is part of a three-day event called “We Play Together: Music & Gaming."It was organized by Aaron Hardwick. He's Wake’s Symphony Orchestra Director, a music professor and an avid gamer. He still remembers his first time playing Halo on the original Xbox console. “I had such a great time playing with friends this game. It was so much fun," he said.
April 17, 2025
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
North Carolina Senate proposes to remove Innocence Inquiry Commission
One of the resources in place at the state level for people wrongly convicted is the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, but it’s on the chopping block in the budget proposal from the North Carolina Senate. “There is really nothing like it,” said Attorney Mark Rabil, who is the director of the Innocence and Justice Clinic at Wake Forest University. It is a unique system that serves as a safety net against human error. “Nobody can dispute the fact that people are wrongfully convicted."
April 17, 2025
Wake Forest University
WFU Environmental Justice Summit to feature civil rights activist Rev. Ben Chavis
Environmental justice and civil rights activist Rev. Ben Chavis will deliver the keynote address at Wake Forest University’s spring Environmental Justice Summit. “Environmental Justice in the Midst of Polycrisis: Where Do We Go From Here?” will be held on Wednesday, April 30, in Benson University Center from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Chavis is a prominent civil rights and environmental justice activist credited with coining the term “environmental racism” in the early 1980s.
April 17, 2025
Yahoo
‘Ring around the’ mercury pollution
Trees located closer to mining sites had higher mercury levels than those farther away. At the most contaminated sites, researchers could track mercury increases over time. At more distant sites, however, changes over time were less apparent. According to biology professor Miles Silman, who was not involved in the research, this breakthrough offers a scalable solution: “The takeaway is that now we have a way to monitor Hg [mercury] in the air anywhere in the world, making a problem that was difficult and expensive cheap and accessible.”
April 16, 2025
Smithsonian Magazine
Tree rings bear witness to illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon, new study finds
Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time. Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Mercury concentrations rose after 2000, likely because that’s when gold mining activities started to ramp up in those towns, per the statement. “You can start to go back and see: How did it change when the mining came?” said study co-author Luis Fernandez, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, to New Scientist. “We’re starting to see that it changed a lot.”
April 15, 2025
Triad Business Journal
Dr. Julie Freischlag, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, to retire at end of 2025
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Dr. Freischlag will conclude both her 38-year career as a practicing vascular surgeon and her 32-year stint as a leader in academic medicine. She has led Wake Forest Baptist as CEO since May 2017 and served as dean of the WFU School of Medicine from 2018 to 2023. "I cannot overstate the impact of Dr. Freischlag's career," said Wake Forest President Susan R. Wente. "Her work as a clinician, researcher, teacher and executive has saved countless lives, improved surgical techniques, increased clinical efficacy and paved the way for generations of physicians. The medical community — and our community here in Winston-Salem — is better, safer, and healthier thanks to her work.”
April 14, 2025
The Daily Galaxy
Gold mining is poisoning the Amazon
Researchers found that mercury levels were highest in trees closest to mining operations, particularly near mining towns where mercury burning occurs most frequently. Environmental researcher Luis Fernandez said, “You can start to go back and see: how did it change when the mining came?” The team observed a noticeable rise in mercury levels in trees near mining areas after 2005.
April 13, 2025
WTOP-FM (Washington, DC)
How will Trump’s tariffs affect homebuyers?
Builders will face significant financial pressure to pass the higher costs on to consumers, according to business professor Pelin Pekgun. Some homebuilders may feel they have to scale back or delay projects if critical materials become too expensive or scarce. That, Pekgun says, could result “in slower construction and fewer homes on the market. Limited supply could then push prices even higher, intensifying affordability challenges.”
April 13, 2025
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
A Triad beauty supply is facing tariff impacts
"In some instances there will not be an alternative way in the near future. This means that the decision maker or the entrepreneur has to either decide if they are not going to produce that product anymore," said economics professo Todd McFall. "It might mean they shutter the business, or they have to raise prices on the product and try and weather the storm until they find an alternative." McFall said these circumstances speak to the benefit of free world trade.
April 11, 2025