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Winston-Salem Journal
‘Wholesale denigration:’ Former officials now in NC blast treatment of federal workers
Elon Musk and his Department of Governmental Efficiency have pushed tens of thousands of federal employees from their jobs. “It’s this whole notion that somehow to even be a public servant is to be participating in a lower class of activity,” said Stan Meiburg, who served for 39 years with the Environmental Protection Agency, the last three as deputy administrator, and now is executive director of Wake Forest University’s Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. “That’s notwithstanding the fact that the private sector does not work — it does not work — unless basic, essential government services are there.”
March 10, 2025
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Fast fashion failing to save Forever 21
The popularity of fast fashion – widely considered unsustainable and detrimental to the environment – also has fallen drastically, taking a hit on the public perception of Forever 21. "Forever 21 was the brand that the former generation used," said marketing professor Roger Beahm, director of the Retail Learning Labs at Wake Forest University. "Today's shoppers want their own brand, they want their own identity."
March 9, 2025
South Africa Today
COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom
"Countries have proved either unwilling or unable to reduce support for the very industries doing the most environmental damage. Such are the difficult and complex realities of a voluntary international process that requires consensus among all participating nations for any language to be finalized,” writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
March 9, 2025
TIME
The U.S.-Ukraine minerals pact is still a bad deal
"Finding ways for Ukraine to rebuild using its own resources is a good thing, as is creating opportunities for U.S. businesses abroad," writes politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf. "But Trump needs to beware of the minerals trap—the costly, no-holds-barred pursuit of rare-earth minerals that sometimes gets great powers into trouble strategically. The allure of resources was one reason U.S. troops continued to fight and die in Afghanistan long after it stopped making strategic sense."
March 7, 2025
Counseling Today Magazine
Should I share my mental health struggles at work?
“I think each mental health concern is its own experience,” said counseling professor Seth Hayden. “People might share different things in different ways and different presentations from day to day. And colleagues might have a sense where our mood shifts a certain amount; we might show up one day in a particular state and another day in another kind of state.”
March 7, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Trump’s DEI attacks miss the mark, critics in Triad say
“I'm neither a woman nor a minority, so I'm not really in a good position to comment from any kind of personal perspective,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director at Wake Forest’s Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. “The fact that anybody would have license to discount that just by saying, ‘Oh, well, really, the world only works best when white men run it,’ I mean, I thought we were past that. Stephen Smulowitz, a business professor at Wake Forest who studies corporate governance and diversity, was also quoted in this article. “One concern is the pushback against DEI initiatives can create the perception that employees who have excelled on their own merits were hired only as DEI candidates,” he said. “For organizations, this shift has strategic consequences.”
March 7, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest researchers recruiting female candidates for osteoarthritis study
Wake Forest University has launched a four-year clinical study to investigate ways to prevent osteoarthritis prevention in women. Researchers are recruiting participants for the healthy lifestyle program at no cost. Classes may include a combination of weight loss, healthy lifestyle, nutrition and exercise. Participants must be at least 50 years of age, overweight and have little to no knee pain.
March 7, 2025
E&E News
The Trump building list that mysteriously disappeared
Federal workers were alarmed when their office buildings were on a target list for disposal. “Regional offices are the intersection between national consistency and local flexibility,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest. A possible Trump administration move to consolidate EPA regional offices would be very disruptive. "My concern is that one way to make EPA less effective is to induce that level of disruption into the operations of the agency.”
March 6, 2025
Forbes
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump joined the advisory board of Dominari Holdings in February and acquired stakes in the company, sending its stock soaring—but filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and online searches reveal little evidence of the advisory board before their appointments.“Anybody should know this is political patronage. This is not the purchase of expertise,” said Alan Palmiter, a professor who specializes in corporate law and securities regulation at Wake Forest University who reviewed the company’s SEC filings at Forbes’ request.
March 6, 2025
Triad Business Journal
“Early childhood education is everyone’s business”: Panel unpacks Forsyth’s ‘tri-lemma’
Our region's workforce capability depends heavily on childcare availability. Forsyth County has seen some movement in the right direction, such as Wake Forest's on-site child care center, which opened through a partnership with KinderCare.
March 6, 2025
The Regulatory Review
Lessons from history can help restore stability
"History suggests that public accountability and institutional checks can restore stability in government. As the authors of a book that argues that a combination of government and markets has built a country truest to its fundamental political values, we see plans to radically downsize government as a contradiction of the historical evidence," writes law professor Sidney Shapiro.
March 6, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Triad residents call Trump’s divisive speech microcosm of second term to date
Politics professor John Dinan said Trump tried to capitalize on the speech by attracting a sizable public audience and giving him a chance to appeal directly to the public. “He asked the public to bear with him through this disturbance. Ultimately, though, presidential success or failure is determined not by the effectiveness of speeches, but by whether the public sees positive results, especially on the economy, but also in foreign affairs and in other areas. Those will have to be determined in coming months and years."
March 6, 2025