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Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest researchers want older adults with knee, hip pain for study
Wake Forest University researchers are trying to determine the value of frequent movement for older adults with chronic knee and hip pain. Researchers recently received a $5.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a five-year study known as Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health-III.“We have found that adding lifestyle behavior changes is a sort of magical thing with this population — they can manage their pain and feel more lively and engaged in their life,” said co-principal investigator Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest.
December 1, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina)
Salem College and Wake Forest musicians combine to improvise and collaborate
Pianist Davide Bianchi, a faculty member at Salem College, and violist Rachael Keplin, who is on faculty at Wake Forest University, got together on Nov. 7 at Salem and Nov. 23 at Wake Forest to perform concerts benefiting folks in Western North Carolina who are still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
November 30, 2024
The Standard (Hong Kong)
Russian breakup may strengthen China’s hand
An analysis by politics and international affairs professor Adam Lenton found a highly variable level of support for autonomy. The data shows that in many of the regions that have exiled independence leaders and are talked about as being potential breakaways, the public support isn't there. It shows support for autonomy rather than independence.
November 28, 2024
Wake Forest University
Center for Functional Materials Research Day celebrates innovation and collaboration
Wake Forest students and faculty members presented posters on their diverse research successes in Benson University Center for the Center for Functional Materials (CFM) Research Day. “The main idea of the center is to bring people together and foster internal collaborations, as well as external collaborations with other universities. This event gives us an opportunity to know what everyone is working on and to foster those discussions,” said Timo Thonhauser, Wright Family Professor of Physics and director of the CFM.
November 27, 2024
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
What’s behind the rising cost of groceries in the Piedmont Triad?
Economist Todd McFall said there’s a big increase in wages hidden inside the general inflation. “What we saw in the middle of 2022 was that consumers were willing to pay all of that price change ... What ended up happening was wages went up in concert with that and once those prices start to do that dance, it’s really difficult to get them to stop,” he said.
November 27, 2024
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
What can U.S. farmers teach scientists about reforesting the Peruvian Amazon?
“The Peruvian government wanted a solution,” said biology professor Miles Silman in a Nov. 10 talk as part of the Council for Advancement of Science Writing’s New Horizons in Science briefing at the Science Writers 2024 conference in Raleigh, N.C. Using a list of around 70 native Amazonian trees created from this research, CINCIA has established 42 hectares of experimental reforested areas in collaboration with the landowners and local government agencies. “It worked remarkably well,” Silman said. “We treated this project as a hypothesis about development."
November 26, 2024
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
WFU to study obesity and chronic pain
Jason Fanning, assistant professor of health and exercise science and Dr. Amber Brooks, pain medicine physician and associate professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine were interviewed about the upcoming launch of their new study. The Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health-III (MORPH-III) study will track how adults age 65 or older living with obesity respond to six months of physical activity and nutrition coaching—and how much the intervention reduces weight and curbs chronic pain. For a limited time, the news clip is available to download here.
November 25, 2024
Axios Charlotte
What’s changed at Harris Teeter, 10 years after being bought by Kroger
Some customers might say the service has changed, or that Harris Teeter doesn't have as much of a "hometown" feel as before. But business professor Roger Beahm said that's likely more of a function of the retailer getting bigger and evolving and less the result of the merger. "Marketers follow a principle of evolution not revolution. If you're going to make certain changes, you evolve them; you don't make dramatic changes overnight."
November 24, 2024
WIRED Magazine
How Trump could actually increase fossil fuel production
The Bureaus of Land Management and Ocean Energy Management, as well as the Forest Service, are the three main entities that issue oil and gas leases on public spaces. These leases effectively allow fossil fuel companies to rent parcels of public land from the federal government so they can extract resources from these areas. “If you have an administration that says we want everything that could be leased to be leased, there’s a lot of discretion to be able to do that,” said Stan Meiburg, the executive director of Wake Forest's Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability.
November 23, 2024
The Conversation
To some ancient Romans, gladiators were the embodiment of tyranny
Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial contests were abhorrent displays of cruelty, but they didn’t always end in death. And the Romans didn’t sculpt bone-white statues; they painted them using an array of colors.
November 22, 2024
Mongabay
Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson
"Over the past three decades at annual United Nations climate summits like COP29, which is just concluding in Azerbaijan, delegates have hyperfocused on the need for national governments to regulate global carbon emissions and contribute to the trillions of dollars required to decarbonize world economies," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso. But the political will and legally binding legislation to achieve these goals has yet to materialize at a scale necessary to slow the rate of global warming.
November 22, 2024
Barron's
Election betting markets were 2024’s other winner. Embrace them.
"Political betting markets are more than just novelties. Legalizing and regulating these markets would harness their potential for the benefit of the national interest. The stakes are high, but if 2024 has proved anything, it’s that these betting markets will probably be more prominent in future elections. Rather than fight it, the general public, politicians and the regulators would be well served to embrace it," writes economics professor Koleman Strumpf.
November 21, 2024