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NPR
The US will stop making pennies next year. Cash-only businesses are already affected
Economics professor Robert Whaples discusses why the penny shortage is already affecting some businesses. "I am a little bit surprised that it's going this fast. In fact, I envisioned it taking years or decades to totally unfold. But I guess the key is this - banks don't give you a free ride on the pennies. And so it costs them money to deal with the pennies and package the pennies. So they're charging retailers more than 50 cents for a roll of 50 pennies. That's why retailers now don't want to mess around with it."
Whaples shares more about the elimination of the penny on the WFU news experts page: "Why eliminating the penny makes sense."
November 9, 2025
The Good Men Project
The modern husband: Why equality at home is the ultimate act of love
Business professor Julie Wayne’s research shows that couples who share home responsibilities experience “work-family enrichment,” meaning their performance at work and satisfaction at home both rise. Men who are equal partners at home are often more fulfilled and productive in their careers, not less. And beyond the household, these small, daily acts ripple outward. Families with equitable divisions of labor tend to raise more emotionally intelligent, cooperative and resilient children.
Curious about Wayne's research? Visit WFU experts page: "Whose remembering to buy the eggs?"
November 9, 2025
The Dispatch
Political betting markets go mainstream
"Prediction markets are, at least in my view, the best forecast we have of what’s going to happen with elections,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf, who has studied historical presidential betting markets. “They’re not perfect, but they’re pretty good. My speculative claim is that as the markets get bigger, they’re going to get more accurate.”
November 7, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Romney says he’s too old to run for president again during talk at Wake Forest University
Mitt Romney said Thursday night that he’s too old to run for president again as the country needs the next generation of candidates to step up. “That’s not going to happen,” Romney, the former Republican senator from Utah, said about a presidential candidacy. “I’m too old. For some in this group, I’m not too old — I’m 78. Romney spoke to about 2,000 people in Wait Chapel as part of Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum.
November 7, 2025
NPR
If we’re being truthful, people are saying ‘honestly’ all the time
In the mid-twentieth century, use of "frankly" outranked "honestly," but the words were not synonymous at the time. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries, "honestly" had a narrow and morally charged meaning, said philosophy professor Christian Miller, a former director of the Honesty Project at Wake Forest. "When people would talk that way, it was understood that they were talking about things like moral truthfulness. People might think lying is pretty common, and early research suggests that," Miller said. "But more recent research found that lying is actually less common than you might think and that the majority of people rarely lie."
November 7, 2025
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
WFU’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability hosting conference
The Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University is hosting its second conference on Thursday, November 13. "Sustainable, Just and Abundantly Wild: Effective Action at Every Scale" is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Wake Forest professor Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Professor of Conservation Biology, shared a preview of what the community can expect. "The Sabin Center is our mechanism for connecting Wake Forest to the world," he said.
November 5, 2025
Nevada Current
A tribe in Nevada finally had funding for climate resilience. Then a grant was ripped away
Joseph Frank was one of the first firefighters to respond to a massive wildfire that broke out on the Walker River Reservation in June last year. Temperatures that month were well above average, according to the National Weather Service. It was 90 degrees in Schurz, Nevada that day – 5 degrees hotter than normal for the area – when a lead-acid battery from a Bureau of Indian Affairs building overheated and “kind of blew up,” said Frank.
This story was published as part of the Wake Forest University Mellon Foundation Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative.
November 3, 2025
The Christian Science Monitor
California’s take on a housing crisis: Aim for abundance, reap affordability
The laws are, in part, designed to promote units that are affordable – generally defined as costing no more than 30% of a family’s income. They move California in the right direction, said Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist at Wake Forest University who studies housing and poverty. If California – where midtier homes cost more than twice the nationwide average – can narrow the affordability gap with an influx of new housing, then it could “perhaps be a blueprint for other states and localities,” she said.
October 30, 2025
Katie Couric Media
Trump keeps musing about a third term — But is it even possible?
And if such a plan exists, Shannon Gilreath, a law professor at Wake Forest University, said it shouldn’t stay in the shadows. “When something as serious as this is proposed, there ought to be absolute clarity and transparency from the people proposing it as to what exactly it is they think the path forward is,” Gilreath tells us. “People have a right to know that.”
October 29, 2025
Fast Company
Wake Forest University uses its annual celebration of each year’s retirees as a sort of “induction” into the university’s retiree group, said Mary Lucal, the school’s vice president and chief human resources officer. She said the university gets access to “the institutional knowledge [the retirees] carry.” Many even return to the university to work part-time.
October 29, 2025
Mongabay
Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town
"Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast. In a rare victory last April, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, won a major pollution permitting battle against Drax’s Amite BioEnergy pellet mill — one of the largest in the world. But at an October appeal meeting, the Mississippi Department of Environment Quality reversed itself, giving Drax permission to pollute more today than previously," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular contributor to Mongabay.
October 28, 2025
NPR All Things Considered
Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they’re buying guns
"We definitely saw something similar happening in the COVID year of 2020, where we rolled straight from the pandemic into the summer of the George Floyd murder protests and then rolling straight from there into a contested presidential election. And there we do have some data. We do know that in that year, that new gun owners were disproportionately African American. They were disproportionately female," said sociology professor David Yamane, a nationally recognized scholarly authority on guns.
October 28, 2025