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Yahoo Finance
Cemetery plot prices jumped 65% from 2018 to 2024, and now people are trying to flip them for profit
All of the many other expenses of dying aside, premium plots can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, with plot price jumps substantially exceeding general inflation in recent years and private cemeteries and crematories serving as a $4-billion industry. Law professor Tanya Marsh told Freakonomics Radio, "Cemeteries are just another real estate use, right? So if you're thinking about what's the use for a particular piece of land and how can I make money from it, cemeteries might be an option."
September 16, 2026
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Summer job losses and gains in the Triad
Associate Teaching Professor of Economics Todd McFall chalks up much of the decline to an aging population exiting the workforce. He says he’s surprised that the Triad labor market is as healthy as it is given today’s economy. "Inflation has been higher than normal for about 5 years; long-run interest rates have been pushed up," says McFall. "And petroleum prices are higher than they've been in—I mean, for diesel, ever." Job gains in the Triad during the past year have come from health services. McFall says he expects continued growth in that sector amid louder calls for more expansive health coverage.
September 15, 2026
Architecture and Governance Magazine
AI agents are all the rage; but research shows they leak private data
Before you prompt AI to answer another question or perform another task, new research suggests there may be another consideration: whether the tools used by an AI agent could expose sensitive data. Ying Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science, studies security in software engineering. Her latest research, “How Your Credentials Are Leaked by LLM Agent Skills,” examines how large language model agent skills can make data vulnerable to attacks.
September 15, 2026
Triad Business Journal
The Insight: Meet Wake’s new academic QB
Wake Forest's new president, Peter Rodriguez, will captain a university with a comprehensive array of programs—medicine, law, graduate schools, in business and professional studies, divinity and a Power Four athletics program. "The thing that’s good about being a business school dean is, typically you engage the external commercial community a lot. You think very actively about being innovative and being an agent of change." Higher ed is facing no small list of challenges, so if Rodriguez is looking to call plays differently, he's definitely one to watch in the year ahead.
Scroll to the second post in the Insights newsletter to read the full blurb about President Rodriguez.
September 13, 2026
Southern Living
This North Carolina city Is home to 1 of the South’s most beautiful college campuses
Winston-Salem is home to six colleges and universities, most notably Wake Forest University, where Maya Angelou once taught poetry and the ACC’s Demon Deacons play. Take a spin through the college that moved from the Raleigh area to Winston-Salem in 1956. Beautiful Wait Chapel is worth a visit any time of year, but December’s Moravian Lovefeast, with sweet buns and choral music, is the largest event of its kind in the country.
September 12, 2026
CNBC
Election officials ban certain public workers from trading on prediction markets ahead of midterms
Election odds on prediction markets are a live response to breaking news. There, participants can forecast and see in real time where the market stands on candidates’ likelihood of a victory. This live accessibility provides a competitive advantage over traditional forecasting polls, said economics professor Koleman Strumpf. “By the time you see the poll, it’s ancient history,” Strumpf said.
September 11, 2026
Phys.org
An unusual bacterium that penetrates and lives inside human cells may offer a new drug target
Research underway in the lab of chemistry professor Rebecca Alexander's lab is shedding light on an unusual human bacterium, Mycoplasma penetrans. Alexander's work to understand how and why this unique pathogen acts as it does could one day lead to new classes of drugs that better target illnesses associated with this particular pathogen, as well as others that act similarly.
September 10, 2026
The Charlotte Observer
How an NC professor and her students helped human composting become legal in the US
Tanya Marsh feels it's a little ironic that a company that turns human remains into compost is working to open a facility in North Carolina. After all, the state played a major role in getting human composting up and running legally around the country. “The ironic thing is, the legal work started in North Carolina. But to my knowledge, nobody’s even introduced legislation to try and make it legal in North Carolina yet,” said Marsh, a professor of funeral and cemetery law.
Wake Forest research on alternative burials was also featured on WMAC's Public Radio The Roundtable.
September 10, 2026
Comment Magazine
Wendell Berry’s difficult hope
In this essay, Michael Lamb, chair of Leadership and Character and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities, writes: In 2012, when we laid my grandfather in the earth, we read an excerpt from Berry’s poem “Rising” at his graveside. Now, as I remember a man who has been an intellectual grandfather to me and so many others, I return to his words, with deep and abiding thanks. May Wendell’s flesh continue to “rhyme its part in immortal song,” and may we “reach through ages with the seed.”
September 10, 2026
The Washington Post
They survived 9/11. Then they devoted their lives to helping others.
“In the immediate aftermath of going through adversity and trauma, many people report some degree of growth,” said psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme, who studies post-traumatic growth. “So when something bad happens, believing that you’ve learned from it gives you more control over the event, so you don’t feel like this passive victim of the cosmos.”
September 9, 2026
MSN
The K-shaped economy is ‘over’ — but 60% of US spending rests on rich people’s portfolios
“If you’ve already accumulated wealth, you’re a member of the upper K, and the reason you’re doing OK is because you almost certainly have significant exposure to the financial markets,” Deon Strickland, a professor of finance at Wake Forest University and former SEC economist, told Forbes.
September 8, 2026
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest University’s new president on navigating growth, innovation districts and affordability
[Wake Forest] is "a great mix of a small private university that has values at its center, but it’s also really comprehensive in the sense of having a presence in medicine, law, graduate programs in business or professional studies, a divinity school, Power Four athletics...That's very hard to find," Wake Forest president Peter Rodriguez told Triad Business Journal in this Q&A interview.
September 8, 2026