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WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Experts are encouraging people to take a look at sites like Kalshi and Polymarket, not to place bets but as a way to understand what people are talking and thinking about. “How long is the war going to last? What’s going to happen with the stock market? Who is going to win the midterm elections?” Birchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economics Koleman Strumpf said.
April 9, 2026
devicedaily.com
Do virtues like being compassionate increase your well-being?
"Virtues such as compassion, patience, and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according to new research my team and I published in the Journal of Personality in December 2025. Philosophers from Aristotle to al-Farabi, a 10th-century scholar in what is now Iraq, have argued that virtue is vital for well-being. Yet others, such as Thomas Hobbes and Friedrich Nietzsche, have argued the opposite: Virtue offers no benefit to oneself and is good only for others," writes Michael Prinzing, a research and assessment scholar in the Program for Leadership and Character.
April 8, 2026
The Biltmore Beacon
Rep. Chuck Edwards wants to enhance federal regulator’s powers
U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards is drafting a bill to increase the regulatory powers of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in direct response to the four Immediate Jeopardy sanctions it’s leveled at Mission Hospital since 2021. The enhancement of powers would allow CMS to impose meaningful, but tailored consequences for hospitals, said law professor Mark Hall.
April 7, 2026
AACSB
School of Business receives AACSB Global Impact Award for use of AI in teaching and learning
Wake Forest School of Business has been recognized as a winner of AACSB International’s inaugural Global Impact Awards for the School’s creative and effective use of generative artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. The Global Impact Awards honor individuals and institutions whose initiatives exemplify innovation, leadership, and measurable impact in business education and society. Grounded in AACSB’s Global Standards for Business Education™, the awards highlight contributions from across the global business education community.
April 6, 2026
Chicago Morning Star
McDonald’s revamps value menu with $3 items
McDonald’s is reshaping its value strategy, introducing a simplified menu featuring items priced under $3 as it looks to appeal to price-sensitive customers facing prolonged inflation. Roger Beahm, an emeritus professor of marketing at Wake Forest University, noted the growing importance of pricing strategies: “In all retail, including quick-serve restaurants, ‘value’ has become a promotional expectation.”
April 3, 2026
Richmond Magazine (US)
Gun violence has always bedeviled the city’s de facto nightclub district. But the Feb. 21 mass shooting at 18th and Main streets that left two dead and seven hospitalized featured a new twist: a proliferation of guns on full display. “Most of the people who carry concealed weapons or open carry look at this from a self-defense standpoint, or political posturing,” said sociologist and gun culture expert David Yamane. “People openly carrying firearms in commercial areas is interesting. That sounds unique to me.”
April 2, 2026
The Conversation
"Little has seemingly gone as Washington planned in the war against Iran.Trump, like other U.S. presidents before him, has fallen into what I call the trap of asymmetric resolve. In short, this occurs when a stronger power with less determination to fight starts a military conflict with a far weaker state that has near boundless determination to prevail. Victory for the strong becomes tough, even close to impossible," writes politics and international affairs expert Will Walldorf.
This article was reprinted in more than 100 news outlets.
April 1, 2026
CNBC
The consumer-AI refund relationship is off to a rocky start
Artificial intelligence may be the future of customer service, but some early consumer reviews suggest that, at least for now, you should prepare to be annoyed. “What bothers people is automation that traps them in a loop,” said Shannon McKeen, professor of practice and executive director of the Center for Analytics Impact at the School of Business. Research on support automation shows that many conversations with AI still eventually escalate to humans. But when systems cannot resolve the issue or clearly explain a decision, customers often experience the AI layer as an additional barrier rather than a solution, McKeen added.
April 1, 2026
McKnight's Senior Living
New arts ‘prescription’ pilot program will lead to resident wellness model for industry
Residents of a North Carolina continuing care retirement community will be receiving “prescriptions” for artistic and creative engagement to test whether they enhance physical and cognitive well-being. In what is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind” initiative, Southminster is partnering with Lifetime Arts and Wake Forest University’s NeuroArts Lab to pilot the Creative Aging on Prescription initiative.
March 31, 2026
USA Today
‘Fruit Love Island’ goes viral, raises big questions about AI ethics
A new AI TikTok video series, "Fruit Love Island," is dominating social media. Woody Hood, director of critical and creative media and film and media studies, said the series is a culmination of fun, pleasure and poison, an "inevitable" amid the height of AI-generated content. "Even going back to claymation in films, we were laughing. That was part of the enjoyment of that stuff, too, going, 'Okay, there are limits on this, but claymation is charming because it has physics to it,'" Hood said. "Digital, I don't know. It seems less charming when it glitches out."
March 30, 2026
Asheville Watchdog
U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards is drafting a bill to increase the regulatory powers of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in direct response to the four Immediate Jeopardy sanctions it’s leveled at Mission Hospital since 2021. The enhancement of powers would allow CMS to impose meaningful, but tailored consequences for hospitals, said law professor Mark Hall.
March 28, 2026
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia grapples with rounding change after the demise of the penny
The penny died months ago. Now, state lawmakers are giving their two cents on how to handle the dwindling supply of 1-cent coins. Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest University, who has advocated for an end to the 1-cent coin, said that rounding prices to the nearest nickel isn’t likely to have much of an impact on consumers, as the total would be just as likely to be rounded up as it would be down.
March 27, 2026