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Winston-Salem Journal
Turkeypalooza helps local organizations combat hunger
This week, Wake Forest University students and staff are cooking Thanksgiving meals from scratch for an annual holiday tradition that gives back to the community. Turkeypalooza is taking place through Nov. 18. This student-led event prepares more than 500 Thanksgiving meals for residents in Forsyth County facing food insecurity. The Thanksgiving meals will consist of turkey, roasted vegetable stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce and sweet potato casserole.
November 14, 2023
The Travel
These are the 10 Most Beautiful College Campuses in North Carolina
Wake Forest University was designed to look especially impressive during the southern autumn. The University’s 340 acres, which include massive Reynolda Gardens, are alive with thousands of Maples, Magnolias, Oaks, Cedars, and other trees that alight in reds and yellows. Reynolda Gardens is also one of the popular things to do for anyone visiting the quaint town of Winston-Salem. Add to this natural beauty a series of Neo-Georgian buildings, such as Wait Chapel and ZSR Library, adorning the college campus.
November 12, 2023
Financial Times
Prediction markets can tell the future. Why is the US so afraid of them?
According to a paper by Koleman Strumpf, “Betting in the run-up to elections was a cherished ritual. A widely held value was that one should be prepared to ‘back one’s beliefs’ either with money or more creative dares.” These included the loser literally eating crow, or pushing the winner around in a wheelbarrow.
November 10, 2023
The Cheyenne Post
What to expect if the Credit Card Competition Act passes
The Credit Cards Competition Act of 2023 is pitting retailers against banks. The process of accommodating additional payment networks is more complex, compliance-wise, which also comes at a cost for banks, according to Brock Kannan, an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law who teaches banking law and regulation.
November 10, 2023
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
How North Carolina can transition from ‘dirty jobs’ to ‘clean jobs’
Economics professor Mark Curtis talks about his research on the transition from “dirty” to “clean” jobs. “The research I’m doing is to try to think about what that transition away from fossil fuels towards renewables is going to mean for workers, specifically,” Curtis said. “What types of jobs are available? What types of jobs are going to be lost? What regions of the country are going to be hit hardest by this? Which regions of the country might be situated to grow from this?” In Curtis’ new academic paper,“Workers and the Green Energy Transition,” he explains that the transition has been driven by a combination of consumer demand and government policy.
November 10, 2023
American Physical Society
To boost undergrad enrollment, physics departments turn to APS Innovation Fund Program
Nationwide, undergraduate physics enrollment has declined by more than 1 in 5 students since its peak in 2016, with smaller institutions bearing the brunt. That’s where the Departmental Action Leadership Institute comes in. DALI — a one-year, cohort-based bootcamp — trains departments to help respond to challenges like declining enrollment. Since completing the DALI curriculum last school year, physics professor Jed Macosko said, “the department realized “there needs to be constant transformational change.”
November 9, 2023
The Charlotte Observer
Ohio voters put abortion and marijuana on the ballot. Could that happen in North Carolina?
Could North Carolina legalize citizen initiatives? Yes, technically, but it seems very unlikely. Politics professor John Dinan said that in the last 30 years, no state has approved any new citizen initiative processes.
November 8, 2023
The Cap Times
What do proposed constitutional amendments mean for Wisconsin voters?
“It may seem unusual to see amendments being advanced for the purpose of bypassing gubernatorial opposition or insulating policies from state court reversal, because we don’t see similar amendments advanced at the federal level. But state constitutions and state constitutional amendments have their own distinctive purposes and dynamics, said politics professor John Dinan, an expert in state constitutional amendments.
November 8, 2023
Baptist News Global
Revisiting ‘natural law’ and gun rights
“We have to find a way to talk to one another, or the shouting is just going to get louder — and, I’m afraid, so will the gunfire,” writes John Carter, visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and in the Program for Leadership and Character and as visiting assistant professor of religion, law and public life at the School of Divinity.
November 8, 2023
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
What to expect with new voter ID requirement following 2023 election day
“In some ways that’s concerning because some of the most important decisions are made in government not at the presidential level, not at the state level but at the town level and through mayors,” said politics professor John Dinan. “And yet those elections are not usually enough to motivate huge numbers to come out to the polls.”
November 7, 2023
Phys.org
Q&A: ‘Hot hand’ in sports is real, but there’s a catch
Fans and players both feel it in the gut when the “hot hand” shows up in sports. Wake Forest economist Erik Nesson investigated the hot hand phenomenon using statistics from NBA 3-point shooting contests from 1986 through 2019. He and co-researcher Robert Lantis of Indiana University found that hot hand exists, but only for shots taken from the same location. The paper, “The Hot Hand in the NBA 3-Point Contest: The Importance of Location, Location, Location,” will be published in the Journal of Sports Economics.
November 6, 2023
U.S. News & World Report
3 questions to ask about MBA career services
At Wake Forest University’s School of Business, a part-time program, the career services center focuses less on job placement and more on helping students pivot within their current company, said Mark Noonan, the school’s associate director of market readiness and engagement.
November 6, 2023