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The Columbia Star
Eliminate the penny and nickel
Economics professor Robert Whaples said, “There’s no real lobby to get rid of the penny. There is a lobby to not get rid of the penny.” Whaples has said for many years that the penny should be retired and thought this would have occurred by now adding, “I would not be surprised if it does not go away during my lifetime, at this point.”
August 15, 2024
Political Science Now
‘Hum So the Devil Doesn’t Hear You: Rural Black Southern Political Existences as the Otherwise’
Claire B. Crawford, assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Program in African American Studies, has been awarded an APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars. Her current book project, “Hum So the Devil Doesn’t Hear You: Southern Black Rural Political Existences in the Otherwise,” is an interdisciplinary study that attempts to deeply understand how we can consider possibilities of democratic engagement as practiced in the murmurs, breaks of speech and hums of Black rural Southern life.
August 13, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Learn about African history and see unique artifacts in Winston-Salem this week
Professor Andrew Gurstelle, director of the Lam Museum at Wake Forest, talks with WXII about the museum’s exhibition, “To Be Seen: Documenting the Art of the Ivory Coast.” The exhibit encourages visitors to consider the role of the curator between the artist and the viewer through the exhibition of objects, unfinished works, tools, and photographs from the Ivory Coast. The exhibition runs through Aug. 24.
August 12, 2024
Atrium Health
To help address the risk of financial hardship to this group, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have been awarded a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to test a multilevel intervention in community-based oncology practices in the NCI’s Community Oncology Research Program, a national network that brings cancer clinical trials and care delivery studies to communities.
August 12, 2024
Bloomberg Environment
EPA staff move to safeguard work amid worries of Trump’s return
The Biden administration has already taken the most effective, albeit limited, steps it can to shield its work from a future president, said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability and a longtime EPA staffer. But those steps take time and may face hurdles from the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which makes it harder for an administration to overturn a regulation based on its policy preferences, said Meiburg.
August 9, 2024
North Carolina Health News
37 N.C. hospitals have joined Gov. Cooper’s medical debt initiative. Will others follow?
At least 37 of the state’s 99 hospitals have so far signed up for a new state program that promises them extra federal money if they agree to wipe out low-income patients’ old medical debt. Law professor Mark Hall said if not enough hospitals participate, the state may need to look at changing its approach. “Could signing up for this program be something considered during the Certificate of Need process? They are offering carrots. Maybe after the first year, (the state) might have to consider whether they need a bit of a stick to help them along.”
August 9, 2024
WS Chronicle
Staged reading, ‘Turning 15,’ echoes the belief that ‘a voteless people is a hopeless people’
In conjunction with the program, Democracy North Carolina held a voter registration drive as part of “Finding Holy Ground: Performing Visions of Race and Justice in America, a collaboration between N.C. Black Rep, Wake Forest School of Divinity and Wake the Arts.
August 9, 2024
Yahoo Finance
How China’s Communist Party is building political schools, and influence, in Africa
Politics and international affairs professor Lina Benabdallah said Beijing wants to build leadership or party schools to reinforce ideological affinities where they exist between the Communist Party and African political parties. “These leadership schools also create an opportunity for the Chinese governance model to become more influential abroad by helping develop curricula, train staff and so on,” Benabdallah said. She said that for African nations, China’s willingness to financially endorse these schools was a lucrative opportunity.
August 8, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
HanesBrands sells off outlet store portfolio, keeps Thruway site
HanesBrands Inc. has sold its portfolio of Hanes and Maidenform outlet stores as part of its pivotal post-Champion back-to-basics reset. The divesting of the outlet store portfolio is “another example of how Hanesbrands is narrowing its focus,” said marketing professor Roger Beahm. “It’s not just horizontally through the sale of Champion, but vertically by now divesting itself of its retail outlet business.”
August 8, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Wake Forest University: Face to Face starts selling single-event tickets
It’s time to get your tickets to Wake Forest University’s Face to Face Speaker Forum! The upcoming season includes Peyton Manning, Anderson Cooper, Jesmyn Ward, David Brooks, and John Legend, and season subscriptions will continue to be available.
August 7, 2024
The Independent Review
Is the US on the verge of recession?
Economics professor Robert Whaples, editor of “Is Social Justice Just?”, talks with Ave Maria Radio about the recent stock market drop and its implications, including which indicators kill economic expansion and why unemployment is increasing. In a separate interview, “US debt hits the $35 trillion,” Whaples discusses what the growing debt means for an economy with an aging population and fewer workers.
August 6, 2024
Reuters
Deforestation harms climate less than other types of Amazon degradation, study finds
A new study underscores the damage being done to the forest by fires after a drought that has made the region a tinderbox. The techniques used in the research give an unprecedented level of detail on forest degradation in the region of Brazil where destruction is most rampant, according to lead author Ovidiu Csillik, a remote-sensing specialist and professor in Wake Forest’s Environment and Sustainability Studies Program. “When countries report their forest and carbon changes, they mostly rely on deforestation because it’s much easier to see and quantify,” said Csillik, formerly of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. “But we’ve found that forest degradation is actually more important in terms of carbon loss.”
A Mongabay story by Justin Catanosa on the study ran Aug. 9.
August 5, 2024