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Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest, Davidson, Elon flip switch on combined solar farm project
What does a planned large-scale solar facility in western Kentucky and Wake Forest and Elon universities have in common? The Sebree Solar II facility, near Robards, Kentucky and the Ohio River, will play a substantial role in the universities meeting their ambitious renewable energy goals potentially into the 2050s. The $195 million project on a 900-acre site is projected to generate up to 150 megawatts of renewable energy with a 30-year lifespan.
April 28, 2024
The Wall Street Journal
The era of one-stop grocery shopping is over
Traditional grocers ate up 66% of total consumer spending on food at home in 2022 according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the most recent year for which data is available. That’s down from 69% in 2017. Marketing professor Roger Beahm said some food stores are now leaning into differentiation rather than trying to be all things to all people. “Retailers are looking at specific categories that they can excel in and being able to offer consumers superior products in these.”
April 27, 2024
Savannah Morning News
New EPA rules subject Georgia Power to severe emissions restrictions at planned plants
While Georgia Power’s planned new units would be subject to the revised rules, they would not apply to its existing gas-fired plants because the EPA put off regulatory changes for plants built before May 24, 2023. “This reflects that retrofits are more complex in both law and equity,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability.
April 26, 2024
Southern Living
Add this castle-like estate In North Carolina to your vacation bucket list
A few minutes outside of downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sits the enchanting and historic Graylyn Estate. Built with 85 rooms to accommodate overnight guests in several lodging facilities, the estate-turned-hotel and conference center combines plenty of charm with a splendid hospitable staff while preserving rich, local history. In a way, it resembles a more intimate version of the Biltmore.
April 26, 2024
The American Scholar
“Teaching theoretical lenses, approaches, ways of understanding history, ways of understanding a text, is really vital. And I think that that necessarily points to discussions about what has been used historically to understand these cultures, these periods, these texts, and what are the shortfalls, what are the gaps,” said classics professor T.H.M. Gellar-Goad.
April 26, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Parkland students looking forward to attending Trevor Noah event after studying his memoir
Some Parkland High School students have a lot to look forward to next week after studying Trevor Noah’s memoir “Born A Crime.” The students wrote to Wake Forest in hopes of attending the Face-to-Face speaker event at the LJVM Coliseum, featuring Noah. The students received complimentary tickets in response.
April 26, 2024
Atlas Obscura
Japanese green tea once fueled the midwest
“It’s just so amazing how something like this can be so quickly forgotten. And this is the challenge of a historian: trying to figure out why. There’s no documents that tell us ‘This is why we really [liked] green tea,” said history professor Robert Hellyer, author of ”Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Teacups.”
April 25, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University partners with Speas Elementary to make learning creative and engaging
Learning got creative at Speas Elementary School in Winston-Salem thanks to some Wake Forest students. The elementary students were able to experience hands-on learning as part of an innovative program called, “Theater in Education.” Education and theater students have been working with second graders using the performing arts to teach lessons on science.
April 24, 2024
Global News
Peel police chief met Sri Lankan officer a court says ‘participated’ in torture
The head of one of Canada’s largest police forces met with a Sri Lankan inspector general of police who two weeks earlier had been found by the South Asian country’s highest court to have “participated in the torture” of an arrested man. Tennakoon’s recent appointment as police chief shows “much about how law enforcement authorities in the island operate with impunity,” said politics professor Neil DeVotta.
April 23, 2024
Spectrum News Charlotte
North Carolina campuses team up for unique renewable energy partnership
Davidson College, Wake Forest University and Elon University have teamed up with several higher education institutions in Pennsylvania for the Sebree Solar II Project, which will bring a large-scale solar facility online in western Kentucky.
April 23, 2024
WSJS-AM (Winston-Salem, NC)
WFU commits to 100% renewable energy
“Sustainability is a big commitment here,” said Vice President for Institutional Sustainability and Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, in an interview with Jeffrey Griffin about the University’s collaborative solar energy project. “This is an exciting partnership with eight other institutions for us to take part in activating a big solar installation in Kentucky,” DeLongre Johnson said. “It is a great spot for us to invest in renewable energy….that community benefits and we benefit through renewable energy credits that will become part of our overall greenhouse gas accounting equation.”
April 23, 2024
WXLV-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Winston-Salem and Wake Forest partner to make improvements to Polo Road
“As a player in the community, we have a role as stewards in the community. Making sure we’re not needlessly adding single-occupancy vehicle commuters to the road,” said DeDee DeLongpre Johnston, vice president for sustainability and chief sustainability officer. “We have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian corridors leading to and from campus already, so we want to make sure that the folks who are opting for active transportation are doing so as safely as possible.”
April 23, 2024