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WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
$5 million gift will support environment and sustainability efforts at Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University has received a $5 million dollar gift to strengthen its work on environmental and sustainability issues. The investment comes from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation. The goal is to support environmental research, education, and outreach through collaborations both on campus and with global partners.
September 26, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
‘World-changing impact’: $5M grant to broaden WFU’s climate, environmental reach
Andrew Sabin, CEO of New York-based Sabin Metal Corp., is the parent of two Wake Forest graduates and grandparent of a current student. The family’s foundation supports environmental programs internationally. The Sabin Center will focus on issues including the impact of rising global temperatures, biodiversity loss, environmental contamination, drought and water scarcity, resource depletion and deforestation.
September 25, 2023
Terra
Customer sues McDonald’s for spilling hot coffee — and this isn’t the first time
There was evidence of at least 700 reports of burns and coffee temperatures that could cause serious injuries in just a matter of seconds, and the person was widely criticized in the court of public opinion, said communication professor John Llewellyn. “It became an issue of women, coffee and millions of dollars, and then people took that as a license to say that the courts are crazy and the plaintiffs are greedy,” he said. “But what was missing from this entire equation was the context behind the verdict, which was erased from the news.”
September 24, 2023
The New Yorker
In this weekend essay, author Rachel Monroe references work by sociologist and gun culture expert David Yamane. “One of Yamane’s main points was that, for many Americans, guns are normal—neither instruments of righteous retribution, like some on the right like to imagine, nor harbingers of societal collapse, like some on the left believe. Millions of Americans live with firearms, and most of them don’t kill themselves or anyone else,” she writes.
September 23, 2023
The Wall Street Journal
How trauma can become a catalyst for personal growth
While many people show resilience after adversity, not everyone experiences post-traumatic growth, said psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme. “A lot of studies track people after they have gone through a traumatic event.… If you go through a negative event like a divorce, there’s a long time spent reflecting” on what went wrong and how you could have been a better spouse. So any positive changes stemming from the divorce may take longer to show up.
September 23, 2023
The New York Times
“Mercury, for better or worse, is a very simple technology, used for the better part of 2,000 years,” said Luis Fernandez, a Wake Forest University professor who has studied small-scale gold mining. “You can learn how to be a miner in 15 minutes, and you get pretty good results. Gold mining “is an economic pressure valve for poorer countries,” he said. Fernandez is executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).
September 22, 2023
Arizona Daily Star
What is work-life balance, really?
If you want to learn about what “work-life balance” really means, ask Wendy Casper. Wendy teamed up with business professor Julie Holliday Wayne to understand what balance really is. Their research found that to be balanced we need to be involved and effective and feel good about the roles we really care about, whereas those roles we care little about won’t really impact our sense of balance. Bottom line: it’s about what matters most.
September 22, 2023
E&E News
EPA is not part of Biden’s climate corps. Why?
Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, including as acting deputy assistant administrator during the Obama administration, said he was “slightly, but not existentially” surprised that his former agency was not part of the American Climate Corps. “The places where these climate corps people may be deployed is where these agencies have real assets on the ground — properties, wildlife refuges, parks, national forests, conservation areas,” he said. Meiburg is the executive director of the newly renamed Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
September 21, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
‘It’s straining the imagination’: N.C. Democrats don’t support linking Medicaid expansion to gaming
The tight-knotting of Medicaid expansion with proposals of four new casinos and statewide video gaming terminals appears to have little support among state House and Senate Democrats. “The remaining questions are whether there will be enough votes to pass the separate bill containing gambling expansion, Medicaid expansion, and a number of earmarks for particular spending projects,” said politics professor John Dinan.
September 20, 2023
Fast Company
Video games like ‘Starfield’ are creating a new generation of classical music fans
Aaron Harding, music professor and director of the University Orchestra, writes: A 2018 poll conducted by the U.K.’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra found that more young people are exposed to classical music through video games than through attending live performances. The increasing complexity of video games means composers are once again pushing boundaries through expanded sound palettes. Many modern game titles incorporate symphonic music needed to provide the emotional and atmospheric underpinning of the game experience.
September 19, 2023
The New York Times
With a new formula, U.S. News rankings boost some state universities
U.S. News & World Report released on Monday the results of what it said was the most substantive overhaul of its 40-year-old college rankings empire. President Wente joined the University of Chicago and Tulane, among others, in commenting on the changes to ranking methodology. “Wake Forest has never made decisions or determined university strategy based on chasing rankings such as those from U.S. News,” said Susan R. Wente. “We do not intend to start now.”
September 18, 2023
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
VP Harris to visit NC A&T State University today to continue her ‘Fight for Our Freedoms’ tour
“It’s important for the Democratic National Party to invest in North Carolina, not just with an eye toward mobilizing voters for the presidential tickets,” said politics professor John Dinan. “There’s also a critical gubernatorial race and other races going on.”
September 15, 2023