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Forbes
Getting more impatient when the end is in sight
“Like millions of her fans, you might be waiting impatiently for Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, to drop. As the big day draws near, do you find your level of impatience going up, going down, or staying roughly the same? All three options make some sense,” writes philosophy professor Christian Miller.
March 25, 2024
Greensboro News & Record
Greensboro appearances foreshadow likely themes in governor’s race
Politics professor John Dinan said both campaigns will clearly want to emphasize “their favored issues and make these issues as prominent as possible in voters’ minds” in the hopes it pays dividends come election time.
March 25, 2024
WXLV-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
$35 million dollar Midtown project to renovate Deacon Boulevard
Ben Rowe, Winston-Salem’s Assistant City Manager said the west side of Deacon Boulevard could be moved north toward Baity Street, allowing stores and retailers to open where it used to be. “Other public infrastructure improvements will include a greenway and some better connections to the Wake Forest University campus.
March 25, 2024
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC News Network speaks with politics expert Adam Lenton
CBC News Network’s Deana Sumanac-Johnson speaks with politics and international affairs professor Adam Lenton on the Russian election. Why hold an election at all when Putin’s win was a sure thing? “The election in Russia is fundamentally different from what you or I are used to,” said Lenton. “We can see the election as a demonstration of the strength of the government delivering Putin an uncontested victory.”
March 25, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Stacy W. Smallwood has been named Executive Director the School of Divinity’s Faith COMPASS Center. “We are excited to welcome Stacy back to Wake Forest to engage in the critical work of the Faith COMPASS Center,” said divinity school dean Corey D. B. Walker. “His commitment to scholarship and community engagement positions him to provide effective leadership in mobilizing and supporting our faith partners.” Smallwood will begin his new role on June 1.
March 24, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
‘Wake N’ Shake’ raises money for cancer research
Sixteen-hundred students participated in a 12-hour dance marathon held at the Sutton Center from noon to midnight on Saturday, March 23. The goal was to raise $250,000 toward the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Students crushed the goal, raising $313,052 during Wake ‘N Shake to support cancer resear
March 23, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Front Street Capital, WFU aim to start $35M infrastructure work within a year
Front Street Capital (FSC) has $35 million to start the first phase of the planned redevelopment project around Wake Forest University’s off-campus athletic facilities. Winston-Salem City Council unanimously approved earlier this month to receive a $35 million grant from the state budget that will go towards infrastructure work in the area. Coleman Team, partner at FSC, projected at the city council meeting that shovels would be in the ground towards the end of 2024 or early 20
March 22, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Shrouded in uncertainty: North Carolina’s path to green ambitions
“The projections for greenhouse gases are certainly optimistic…it’s consistent with the other projections that you see at the national level,” Stan Meiburg, said executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, adding that the pace of reduction between the year 2030 and 2035 “will depend on choices that Duke makes.”
March 22, 2024
The Cool Down
Government program seeks to bring new jobs to former coal towns
“In places like Texas or in the middle of the country where there’s a lot of solar and wind, fossil fuel communities are relatively well positioned to take advantage of renewables,” Economics professor Mark Curtis who is studying the clean energy transition as it relates to labor, told The New York Times. “Coal communities generally don’t have that, especially when you think about Appalachia.
March 21, 2024
Connecticut Public Radio
We all strive to be right about things — we do our research, we listen to people who seem smarter than us, we make compelling arguments over dinner tables. But is there an underappreciated art to being wrong? This discussion included lessons on changing your mind and admitting mistakes from newspaper corrections to public intellectual pivots. Psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme joined this panel conversation.
March 20, 2024
INSIGHT Into Diversity
Providing equitable access through child care
Equitable access for student parents, at least in part, means offering affordable child care resources. Some institutions acknowledge this disconnect and are finding ways to provide more support. Wake Forest University in North Carolina is slated to open an on-campus child care center by fall 2024 that will prioritize placement for children of students, faculty and staff.
March 20, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
‘Midtown’ project aims to revitalize area centered on Deacon Boulevard
Winston-Salem will use a $35 million state grant to build streets, greenways and other improvements in an area centered on Deacon Boulevard with the goal of creating what’s being called Midtown – a “vibrant, mixed-use development” near Joel Coliseum, the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds and Allegacy Stadium.
March 20, 2024